Presiding Elders Council

Conference	Presiding Elder District	Presiding Elder
North Ohio	Youngstown	Reverend Percy Robert Tate Spouse: Mrs. Geraldine
Pittsburgh-West Virginia	Allegheny/Scranton	Reverend Dr. Eric L. Brown Spouse: Mrs. Margo
Pittsburgh-West Virginia	West Virginia	Reverend Alton B. Dillard Spouse: Mrs. Maureen
Pittsburgh-West Virginia	Pittsburgh	Reverend Dr. James McLemore Spouse: Mrs. Donna
Ohio-South Ohio	Cincinnati-Dayton	Reverend Dr. Melonie A. Valentine Spouse: Mr. Richard
Ohio-South Ohio	Columbus-Springfield-Xenia	Reverend Dr. Betty Holley
North Ohio	Cleveland	Reverend Dr. Earl G. Harris Spouse: Dr. Jeanette

May 16, 2018 10:47 am
AME SADA SUNDAY
April 12, 2018 6:07 pm
Tawawa CEC 2018 Registration
March 23, 2018 1:34 pm
Driver’s License – Real ID Act
March 8, 2018 7:51 am
TAWAWA CEC 2018
October 30, 2017 11:22 am
CLERGY ANTI-RACISM PREPAREDNESS TOOLKIT
October 11, 2017 5:40 pm
Breast Cancer and Domestic Violence Awareness Month
January 21, 2017 2:14 pm
JOIN 3D ONLINE NETWORK
January 20, 2017 7:28 pm
Project of Love: Dresses for Africa
April 6, 2016 5:04 am
THE 3D GOES GREEN
November 13, 2014 10:30 pm
Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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3rd District AME

4 weeks ago

June 15, 2018

AME Church condemns the use of scripture by
Attorney General Sessions to separate immigrant families

From Lies to Liberation: the of Scripture to Justify Injustice

The recent statement of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the attempt by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to use biblical text of Romans 13: 1, to justify and condone the U.S. government’s separations of immigrant children from their parents, in addition to being sad and sinful, shows a deep misunderstanding of the transforming truth of scripture.

We have heard much about the political cult of Mr. Donald Trump over the past few days. Students of cults understand that they abuse and misuse the truth of religious documents to control people and to bend their will. This practice of using “proof text” – scriptural text out of context to achieve some wicked end – is as ancient as the temptation of Jesus by Satan in the Wilderness (Luke 4). The founders of this nation used the same tactics to enslave our African forebears by lifting from the writings of the Apostle Paul passages to condone slavery and to break their spirit. It was only after hearing the true liberating message of the Gospel that they could sing with resolve, “Before I’ll be a slave, I’ll be buried in my grave, and go home to my Lord and be free.”

The statement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Press Secretary Huckabee Sanders is a reminder of the recurring themes of the Trump Administration on African nations and immigrants to America. The Bible does not justify discrimination masked as racism, sexism, economic inequality, oppression or the abuse of children. Jesus, who was an immigrant who had to leave the place of his birth and immigrate to Egypt because of an oppressive leader and system, admonishes all that the poor, children, the elderly, widows, and widowers should have a special place of justice and compassion in every nation. (Matthew 24) The Bible says that we are not to envy our oppressors or to choose their ways. (Proverbs 3: 31) “Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12: 2)

Why are so many white evangelicals deafeningly silent on the need to find a positive resolution to the Dreamer’s situation? Why are Black and Brown immigrants living in America with fear that the American Dream has become a nightmare for the least, the last and the left out?

The Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church reiterate our support for the “Faith Leaders Statement on Family Separation” signed with our ecumenical partners and join with the United States Catholics Conference of Bishops and other concerned bodies of faith who decry these statements and the abuse of scripture.

We join with the members of both parties in calling for a just policy for these children and their parents. We challenge Speaker Paul Ryan, the Republican majority, and Democrats to join in reprimanding Attorney General Sessions, and then work together to bring justice to these children and their parents.

Finally, we close with the words of Deuteronomy 10: 18-19, “God executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and loves the strangers (immigrants)… You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Clement W. Fugh, President
McKinley Young, Senior Bishop
Reginald T. Jackson, Secretary
Vashti M. McKenzie, President of the General Board
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1 month ago

History of Father's Day
Source: www.history.com/topics/holidays/fathers-day
"On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the
previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday.

The next year, a Spokane, Washington, woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910.

Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day. In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last." ... See MoreSee Less

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