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The AME Church is active regarding issues of social justice and has invested time in reforming the criminal justice system. [40] The AME Church also opposes "elective abortion". [41] On women's issues, the AME has supported gender equality and, in 2000, first elected a woman to become bishop. [42]
The Apostolic Constitutions, which implore believers to "always remember the ten commands of God," reveal the importance of the Decalogue in the early Church. [85] Through most of Christian history the decalogue was considered a summary of God's law and standard of behaviour, central to Christian life, piety, and worship. [86]
The congregation was founded in 1838, as Union Bethel (Metropolitan) A. M. E. Church. In 1880, John W. Stevenson was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne to be pastor of the church for the purpose of building a new church, which would become Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. The cornerstone was laid in September, 1881.
Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was the first Black church to be founded in Lincoln, Nebraska. Founding members of Quinn Chapel started meeting in their homes in 1870 with an itinerant minister. In 1871, Rev. G. W. Gaines officially organized the church.
The Saint Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church is an African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sacramento, California, founded in 1850. It was the first African American church in California [2] and the first AME Church on the West Coast of the United States. [3] It was originally located at 715 Seventh Street, which is marked by a historical ...
The cornerstone at the Historic Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit on Nov. 5, 2021. Ebenezer AME will celebrate its 150th Anniversary on Nov. 7th, 2021.
St. Mark's AME Church was the first and only building in Duluth built by blacks, for blacks. Founded in 1890 by Reverend Richmond Taylor, the congregation first met at Fourth Street and Fourth Avenue West. Soon afterward it moved to a newly constructed building at 530 North Fifth Avenue East.
Kamala Harris and Eric Garcetti at the First AME Church of Los Angeles in 2020. The church is a center of political and social action in the city. [16] In the 80's and 90's, the church created 40 task forces concerned with health, substance abuse, homelessness, emergency food and clothing, housing, training, employment and so on.