These elections marked several significant milestones. Jerome Green, Judicial Council- ClergyĪdvocate Thabile Ngubeni, Judicial Council – Lay Norris, Executive Director, Department of Church Growth and Development John Green, Executive Director, Global Witness and Ministry James Miller, Executive Director, Department of Retirement Services Marcus Henderson, Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer of the AME Church Wright, Sr., 142nd Elected & Consecrated Bishop (Pastor of Quinn Chapel AME Church, Cincinnati, Ohio). Brookins, 141st Elected & Consecrated Bishop (Pastor of Bethel AME Church, Fontana, California) Zanders, II, 140th Elected & Consecrated Bishop (Pastor of St.
The Right Reverend Silvester Beaman, 139th Elected & Consecrated Bishop (Pastor of Bethel AME Church, Wilmington, Delaware). New persons elected to leadership in the AME Church include: The five incumbent General Officers were retained. The committee is designed to “develop and propose legislation that undergirds the evangelical responsibility of the church ‘to minister to the social, spiritual, and physical development of all people’ – including people of sexual orientations and gender identities.”Īt the General Conference new Bishops, General Officers (Department Executives) and members of the Judicial Council were elected. Representative Demings called the Church to collective action, “The urgency is now.”Īmong the legislation approved by the AME Church General Conference was an “AME Sexual Ethics Discernment Committee” designed to begin a three-year process to bring back recommendations to the 2024 General Conference. Demings exclaimed that the role of the Church is to ensure that no one is left behind and that the most vulnerable among us are protected. AME Church member Congresswoman Val Demings of Florida delivered a keynote address to the assembly as well. In addition to the business of the General Conference, greetings were received from the President and Vice President of the United States. I am proud of our planning team and grateful to the AME Church leadership and delegates for their patience and understanding as we made this shift.” “In spite of the last-minute difficulties, we were able to ensure that all members of our family were able to share in this important aspect of the life of our Church.
Cooper, General Secretary of the AME Church. “The 2021 General Conference was truly a test of the denomination’s resilience and capacity to adapt, “stated Dr. After the South African government restricted in-person gatherings due to public health concerns, a virtual platform was created to allow these delegates to participate in the deliberations virtually. Over 1600 delegates met as the church’s supreme governance body to review and change the denomination’s laws and policies, receive reports from its agencies, and elect denominational leadership.ĭue to restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 200 delegates representing countries on the continent of Africa were unable to travel to the United States and were to participate via a satellite location in Cape Town, South Africa. The 51st Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church met from July 6-10, 2021, at the West Concourse of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
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