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| | Methodist Episcopal Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1968 the Methodist Church united with the Evangelical United Brethren (EUB) church, which were spiritual descendents of German-speaking Methodists, to form the United Methodist Church. | | | The church split over the question of slavery in 1844 with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South being formed in southern states. | | | The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church
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| | METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHES |
| | A church and parsonage are to be erected. | | | Beneath the altar of the church rest the remains of the Rev. John Surnmerfield, widely known as one of the most eloquent preachers and godly men connected with the Methodist church, and who was buried here by his own request. | | | York Street Methodist Episcopal Church is the child of Sands Street Church, whose congregation had so increased that, in 1823, during the pastorate of the eloquent William Ross, it was found necessary to erect another house of worship. |
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http://www.panix.com/~cassidy/STILES/METHODISTCHURCHES.html
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| | Kilmarnock Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
| | Asbury Methodist Church at Foxwells was established in 1896. | | | Emmanuel Methodist Church at Morattico was organized in 1893. | | | The Methodist Protestant Church of Wicomico Church was one of several Methodist Churches in Virginia that split away from the main body, mainly because of dissension over the election of Elders. |
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http://www.gbgm-umc.org/kilmarnockumc/historybook.htm
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| | AME Church History |
| | In 1799, Richard Allen was ordained minister of the church by Bishop Francis Asbury of the Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | The Church is Methodist in doctrine and church government, and it holds a general conference every four years. |
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http://www.camelotcastle.org/history.htm
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| | Methodist Episcopal Church - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912 |
| | Early in the '40s it was seen that the church was divided upon the question of slavery and in 1844, the Southern churches withdrew from the jurisdiction of the general conference, deciding upon a separate organization to be known as the Methodist Episcopal church, South. | | | The first Methodist church was established at Doniphan on May 10, 1857, and a church edifice erected early in the '60s. | | | In 1860 the Free Methodist church was organized in New York with but slight modifications of the articles of the Methodist church, but some change in the form of government. |
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http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/archives/1912/m/methodist_episcopal_church.html
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| | History |
| | The A.M.E. Church is a member of the family of Methodist Churches. | | | But the A.M.E. Church originated as a protest against the inhumane treatment which the helpless people of African descent were forced to accept from the white people belonging to the St. George Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | | | he movement to organize a church separated from the white peoples' church was started in response to the "Africans" need for opportunities for self-expression and fuller involvement in the service of the worship of God, and in society as a whole. |
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http://www.ame-church.org/amehist.htm
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| | The Black Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | The church served as both a church and a meeting house for the Black community. | | | During the earlier days of the church, the community filled their church to it's capacity, but in later years the congregation declined for the reasons mentioned earlier. | | | With the number of families that occupied this area, it is not surprising that they eventually built their own church to practice their religious belief in and to serve as a place to unify their community. |
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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/merseyhersoc/bmec.html
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| | African Methodist Episcopal |
| | The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church | | | Allen was the informal leader of the congregation that met there, and in 1799 was ordained a deacon by Asbury, thereby becoming the first ordained black in the Methodist Church. | | | So began a dissatisfaction in the hearts of many blacks with regards to the Methodist church (which was itself in a gestational period in 1784). |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ame.html
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| | Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church |
| | METHODIST - refers to the church's membership in the family of Methodist churches. | | | Their responsibilities are to oversee the spiritual and temporal affairs of the church. | | | Now, about our church: We are a Connectional Church, a local congregation of the worldwide African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC). |
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http://www.macedonia-ame.org
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| | Christianity and slavery |
| | Shortly after the Civil War began, the Southern presbyteries of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America withdrew and organized the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States (later renamed the Presbyterian Church in the United States). | | | The Wesleyan Methodist Church continues today as the Wesleyan Church. | | | The two General Conferences, the Methodist Episcopal Church (North) and Methodist Episcopal church, South remained separate until a merger in 1939 created the Methodist Church. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_slav2.htm
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| | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | In 1816 a national meeting was called and it was decided to establish a fully separate African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) of which Allen was ordained the first Bishop. | | | Services were also more enthusiastic and participatory than in white Methodist churches. | | | Today it is active in pursuing close co-operation with other churches, especially Methodist ones. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/christ/esp/amec.html
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| | Trainer Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | This beautiful edifice with its parsonage is built of Cynwyd stone and is considered one of the beautiful churches in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church. | | | The Methodist Church at Trainer, Pa., had its beginnings around 1890 and was the result of cottage prayer meetings held in various homes in the mill village. | | | Isett was pastor at Cokesbury Methodist Church in Marcus Hook, where the Trainer Methodists worshipped, a stirring revival was held in which a great number of people were added to the communicants from Trainer. |
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http://www.oldchesterpa.com/trainermechurch.htm
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| | African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: Information From Answers.com |
| | These early churches were still part of the Methodist church, although the congregations remained separate. | | | The AME Zion Church is not to be confused with the similarly-named African Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | The first church founded by the AME Zion Church was built in 1800 and was named Zion. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/african-methodist-episcopal-zion-church
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| | Emanuel A.M.E. Church |
| | The church's 1400 members soon thereafter established themselves an African Methodist Episcopal church, a denomination formally established in 1816 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | | | The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is a Gothic Revival style church built in 1891. | | | The brick Gothic church with its tall steeple replaced an earlier 1872 church badly damaged by the 1886 earthquake. |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/charleston/ema.htm
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| | The Origin of the A.M.E. Zion Church |
| | century, the church was in the forefront of the antislavery movement. | | | In many Methodist churches, black worshippers were segregated from white members and were forced to sit in the church gallery rather than in the main area of worship. | | | The church, by then known as the Methodist Episcopal Church, granted preaching licenses to a few black men, but they were rarely allowed to preach, even to other black members of the church. |
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http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/amezion/case1.htm
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| | Bethel African Methodist Church ~ Bloomfield, CT |
| | Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Bloomfield, CT is a divinely inspired Christian community that is dedicated to the establishment and preservation of God-intended, spirit-filled relationships. | | | The church continued to show growth and finally became a station church. | | | Bethal A.M.E. Church - Bloomfield is committed to filling human relaltionships with the Spirit of Christ by being a Bible-based, Word-centered institution that recognizes that oppression of any sort is contrary to the will of God. |
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http://www.bethelbloomfieldct.com
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| | Site of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
| | The Methodist Episcopal Church was the largest denomination in the United States, and its division was to many observers an omen of what could happen to the nation as well as to other churches. | | | In the Methodist Episcopal Church, the issue came to a head in 1844. | | | The Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1816, was the second home of the first Methodist society in Louisville (1806). |
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http://www.gcah.org/Heritage_Landmarks/Mecsouth.htm
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| | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | The AME church in the North served as a place of worship, a social and cultural center, a political meeting place, a hiding place for fugitives, a training ground for potential community leaders, and one of the few places where free blacks could express their true feelings. | | | Rebuilt to fit the growing congregation in 1871 and 1875, the Cumberland AME Church constructed their present building in 1891 in the "Methodist tradition" with the sanctuary on the second floor, and the Sunday school class rooms situated on the ground floor. | | | Free blacks in Cumberland were no different than their counterparts in other large and growing Northern cities, and in 1847, after worshiping for years from the balcony of Cumberland's Methodist Episcopal Centre Street Church, a group of free blacks decided to leave the predominantly white congregation and organize their own church. |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/nR/travel/cumberland/afm.htm
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| | Zoar United Methodist Church |
| | The sanctuary originally housed a Methodist Protestant congregation, then "The Reformed Episcopal Church of the Covenant." It was then used as a refrigeration plant before it was purchased in 1883 by a philanthropist who sold it to the Zoar congregation for $1.00. | | | George's Church and eventually into a new denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | The members of this new church never loosed their ties to the Methodist Episcopal Church, making Zoar the oldest black congregation in the United Methodist tradition with a continuous existence. |
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http://www.gcah.org/Heritage_Landmarks/Zoar.htm
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| | Grant Chapel AME Church- Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| | The Mission of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs of all people by spreading Christ's liberating Gospel through word and deed. | | | Our church is a house of worship and prayer for all nations of people. | | | Our theme is "The number one church serving the number one God!" This says that we are exhausting all God's power, taking advantage of God's Word, and, because God is number one he has number one children. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~QLawson/index-2.html
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH |
| | The church had four conferences by 1890 and nine by 1926. | | | Although Texas had had no AME congregations previously, many black Methodists had worshipped in the Methodist churches of their masters. | | | In addition to its religious functions, the African Methodist Church has helped blacks maintain a sense of community and provided them with a place to express their demands for civil rights. |
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http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/ima2.html
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| | Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | The Mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical and emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ's liberating gospel through word and deed. | | | We believe the church is a community of hope, living the love of Jesus for all creation and continually renewed by the fresh winds of the Holy Spirit. | | | Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church seeks to live and serve by this Mission Statement adopted by the General Conference of the A.M.E. Church. |
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http://www.gtr-bethel-ame.org
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH |
| | The Texas Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, an offshoot of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, | | | Evangelical theology, spiritual and material support for its members, and worship services that are also social occasions characterize the church. | | | In 1986-87 there were seven active churches, 1,752 confirmed members, and 2,095 total adherents in Texas. |
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http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/ima1.html
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| | OBHO: British Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | Christ Church - St. James, BME, known as "the BME Church," one of the oldest Black congregations in Canada, suffered a tragic loss when its building at 460 Shaw Street was destroyed by arson on April 16,1998. | | | The new instruments recently acquired for the Church's Music Program were completely destroyed, as was a Library of some 200 books, including a set of new Bibles and a set of religious encyclopedias dating back to the 19th-century. | | | Here, the BME Church not only ministered to its congregation, but was a vital force in the greater Community. |
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http://collections.ic.gc.ca/obho/places/places_of_worship/bme.html
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| | Adherents.com |
| | and, in the U.S., the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the United Methodist Church. | | | The Religious Census of 1936 reported 4,578 A.M.E. churches with a membership of 493,357. | | | "There are three main Negro Methodist bodies: the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1,166,301 members in 1951); the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (770,000 in 1959); and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (392,167 in 1951). |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_7.html
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| | OldChesterPa: Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | Sale of our "Old Trinity Church" at Third and Parker Sts., was approved December 8, 1919, and was sold for $24,000.00, the congregation being permitted to use the Church and Chapel for fifteen months after the signing of the agreement. | | | As we look back over the History of Trinity Methodist Church, recorded in our book written in 1945, telling of events in our first 80 years, we realize what a great Heritage, through God's blessings and the faithful service of our members, has been given to us to enjoy. | | | In faith believing, Trinity Church follows its Master into the new day with its new needs and its new challenges. |
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http://www.oldchesterpa.com/trinitychurch.htm
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| | The African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | The African Methodist Episcopal Church began in protest, was born in prayer at the altar, and was shaped on the anvil of God in a blacksmith shop. |
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http://www.duboislc.org/AME
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| | CONN-M-SWAW0 Plus P.K.'s Home Page |
| | We are an advocacy group for the spouses, children, widows and widowers of the "called servants" of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | This organization operates under the auspices of the Social Action Department of the AME Church. | | | Welcome to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Connectional Ministers' Spouses, Widows and Widowers Organization, Plus P.K.'S web site. |
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http://www.amemswwpk.org
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| | Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Communication Network |
| | The 2006 General Conference of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is fast approaching, and God has positioned the Saints to come with expectancy, not in ourselves, but in Him. | | | Wendy L Jackson is a member of College Park CME Church and has recorded a new CD titled "23rd Psalm" and has published a book "Food for the Soul" that is available at Medu Book Store located at the Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta GA.. | | | As 120 prayers maintain a vigil of prayer for 10 days we shall encounter His fire upon our lives and churches. |
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http://www.cnetweb.org/cme_network.htm
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| | HRC African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | “The official position of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is not in favor of the ordination of openly gay persons to the ranks of clergy in our church. | | | Fellowship 2000 is coalition of predominantly African-American Christian churches and ministries who celebrate the “radically inclusive love of Jesus Christ.&; | | | If you would like to communicate with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, here is their mailing address: |
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http://www.hrc.org/TemplateRedirect.cfm?Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=21755
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| | Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | As they began to campaign for the abolition of slavery, the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church tried to silence them. | | | The use of ecclesiastical authority to support the evil of human slavery caused the activists to leave the M. | | | As a national church, The Methodist Episcopal Church diplomatically avoided any denunciation of slavery or slaveholders. |
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http://www.elkgrove.org/Wesleyan/m_e_church.htm
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| | African Methodist Episcopal Church - MSN Encarta |
| | African Methodist Episcopal Church, Protestant denomination organized in Philadelphia in 1816. | | | Find more about African Methodist Episcopal Church from | | | The African Methodist Episcopal Church: Fifth Episcopal District |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556713/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church.html
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| | BOSTON AVENUE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH |
| | The name of the congregation housed there is Boston Avenue United Methodist Church. | | | The tower provides physical, visual, and philosophical linkage of two important church functions-shared worship and Christian education/fellowship. | | | The Boston Avenue church also exemplifies the era's trend toward using new materials, in this case steel, which enabled the building of the church's four-story "skyscraper" tower. |
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http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/enc/bostonave.htm
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| | Calvary A.M.E. Church |
| | We will now take prayer requests from all over the world. | | | Reserve a domain name for your church like | | | to register your A.M.E. church in our Global Directory |
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http://www.calvaryame.org
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| | St Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| | Church Motto: "Moving from church membership to Christian ministry" | | | Global Directory - Calvary A.M.E. Church - 1031 NE Pine Island Rd, Suite 7 - Cape Coral FL 33909 | | | However we must receive it in the next 30 days or you entry will be removed from our Directory of Ministers of African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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http://www.amec3000.org/3rd_District/Conference/Ohio/Columbus/St_Mark
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| | Chester County Pennsylvania Cemeteries - Fremont Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery - I Dream of Genealogy Databases |
| | Approximately 3 miles on the right on Fremont Road is a small while church, Fremont ME Church and adjacent to the church is the cemetery. | | | Acknowledgement: I want to thank Helen Allport for allowing the Fremont ME Church Cemetery to be listed on the web and a special thank you to Ann Marie Preston Patnaude who typed all the tombstone inscriptions. | | | Fremont Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery Records recorded and submitted by |
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http://www.idreamof.com/cemetery/pa/chester/fremont.html
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| | African Methodist Episcopal Church Building |
| | The African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church served as a community-gathering place and church for seventy years, and no doubt an informational source for those involved in the Underground Railroad. | | | The African Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 309 E. Fifth Street in the National Register District of Madison, Indiana is one of two churches established in an area known as “Georgetown”. | | | Research has revealed that members associated with the Fifth Street church were noted as active and perhaps even radical in their involvement in the Underground Railroad. |
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http://www.historicmadisoninc.com/AfricanMethodistEpiscopalChurchBuilding.htm
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| | Lewis Chapel African Methodist episcopal church |
| | We welcome you to visit and participate in our Sunday worship and Ministries. | | | Lewis Chapel A.M.E. Church is located in the heart of the city of Albion, Michigan. |
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http://www.lewischapelamechurch.com
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| | Bangs, Nathan |
| | Volume I. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at | | | Search ThML works of Nathan Bangs on the CCEL: |
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http://www.ccel.org/b/bangs/history_mec/HMEC_000.HTM
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| | HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH |
| | —Expediency of the Episcopal Title of the New Church | | | Robert Strawbridge — Traces of him in Ireland — His Character — His Emigration to America — His Methodistic Labors — Richard Owen, the first native Methodist Preacher — Watters' Eulogy of him — Strawbridge's latter Years — His Death and Funeral — Asbury's Opinion of him — Original Humility of American Methodism | | | The first General Conference — Lovely Lane Chapel — Wesley's Letter to the American Methodists — Coke and Asbury elected Superintendents or Bishops — Whatcoat's Account of the Proceedings — Coke's Sermon at the Consecration of Asbury — Character of the Conference — Preachers present — Were their Measures in accordance with Wesley's Intentions? |
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http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/0201-0300/stevens
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