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The African Methodist Episcopal Church unanimously voted to forbid ministers from blessing same-sex unions in July 2004. [43] [44] The church leaders stated that homosexual activity "clearly contradicts [their] understanding of Scripture" and that the call of the African Methodist Episcopal Church "is to hear the voice of God in our Scriptures ...
The "AME" is an abbreviation of African Methodist Episcopal, the religious denomination. After the Civil War, several dozen Freedmen organized a "Society" for the purpose of religious worship. On July 28, 1866, this group became formally recognized as Mount Zion A.M.E. Church.
They built a wooden structure which served as both a church and a school. In 1903 the church was officially incorporated under the name of Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of New Orleans. In 1906 this building burned to the ground. The foundation for the present church was laid in 1910 and the cornerstone is dated June 18, 1911.
The congregation, founded in 1794, is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal congregation in the nation. Its present church, completed in 1890, is the oldest church property in the United States to be continuously owned by African Americans. [3] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. [1]
A story provided by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association of how the African Methodist Episcopal Church plays important role after Civil War.
The parent African Methodist Episcopal denomination is Methodist denomination founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816. The African Methodist denomination includes other major churches such as the First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles with over 19,000 members and the Reid Temple A.M.E. Church in Glenn Dale, Maryland ...
In 2019, the year Kingdom Fellowship AME was founded, the church had about 3,000 members and an average weekly attendance of about 1,800 people, according to the church's figures.
They built a small wood-frame building in 1856 and called themselves the First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Later, to honor an early bishop, the Right Reverend James Walker Hood, they changed their name to the Hood AME Zion Church. The original congregation was small and faced hard financial times as they struggled to keep a parson.