Calling the Church to Consciousness

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Calling the Church to Consciousness

Calling the Church to Consciousness By George Pratt, Connectional YPD Parliamentarian On Sunday, November 29th, a collective of progressive United Methodists founded a new Wesleyan [...]

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By 1816 there were several African Methodist Churches around the country and that year they met to form the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church. On April 11, 1816 Richard Allen was name the first bishop of this church.

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