Picture AMEs
Namesake for the AME Church in Rochester NY
Who is Bishop George Wilburn Baber
An Itinerant Elder, who is appointed by the Bishop to preside over a district in the Annual Conference
Who is the Presiding Elder
"I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord..."
What is the Apostle's Creed
The year Richard Allen and others seperated themselves from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church or the year the Free African Society was formed.
What is 1787
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
What are the books of the Pentateuch
Church organizer and missionary, quoted as saying, "Why should we not believe that God is a Negro?"; an AME Bishop
Who is Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
Approves and adopts the annual budget of the local church, as presented by the Commission on Stewardship and Finance
What is the Official Board
"Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men, we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness
What is the General Confession
The year the AME Church denomination was formed or the year Richard Allen was consecrated as the first Bishop of the AME Church
What is 1816
The book of beginnings
What is Genesis
The first elected and consecrated female bishop of the AME Church
Who is Bishop Vashtie McKenzie
Where Ministerial and Lay delegates are elected to the General Conference
What is the Electoral College of the Annual Conference
"God our Creator, Christ our Redeemer, The Holy Spirit our Comforter, Humankind our Family."
What is the AME Church motto
The year Richard Allen and others founded the Bethel Church in Philadelphia PA
What is 1794
How Israel became a nation
What is Exodus
Co-founder of the Free African Society, following the exit from St. George AME Church
Who is Absolom Jones
The supreme governing and only legislative body of the church; Hint: meets quadrennially (every four years)
What is the General Conference
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Who is the Triune God
The years Richard Allen and others spent opposing the legal challenge mounted by the Methodist Church
What is 1807 through 1815
A "manuel of worship" for Israel under the law; a digest of divine laws to the Jewish people
What is Leviticus
Presiding Prelate of the First Episcopal District of the AME Church
Who is Bishop Gregory G.M. Ingram
A geographical grouping of congregations
What is Annual Conference
Holy Baptism and Holy Communion (The Lord's Supper)
What are the Sacraments in the AME Church
The month and year the Reverend James C. Simmons was appointed Pastor of the Baber AME Church of Rochester NY
What is June 2010
Records Israel's forty years of wandering in wilderness
What is Numbers