Parks Chapel
A.M.E. Church
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Apostle's Creed
“I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; the third day He arose from the dead, He ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Church Universal, the communion of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.”
Our Congregation
Reverend Mae Ella Williams, Pastor
Reverend Gary McCants, Presiding Elder
Right Reverend John F. White, Bishop
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Our HistoryThe AMEC grew out of the Free African Society (FAS) when American Methodist officials at St. George’s MEC pulled blacks off their knees while praying. These members of St. George’s made plans to transform their mutual aid society into an African congregation. To establish their independence from interfering white Methodists, Allen, a former Delaware slave, successfully sued in the Pennsylvania courts in 1807 and 1815 for the right of his congregation to exist as an independent institution. The denomination grew over the next 60 years and reached the Pacific Coast in the early 1850’s. Today, the African Methodist Episcopal Church has membership in twenty Episcopal Districts in thirty-nine countries on five continents.. |
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