Welcome to The Central District of the SW Georgia Conference
P O Box 6046 211 Rucker Street Americus, GA 31709-6046
USA 229-928-9559
The Central District
Presiding Elder
The Rev. Dr. M. Sven "Karl" Colquitt
District Supervisor
Mrs. Mattie R.Colquitt
Presiding Prelate
Bishop William Phillips DeVeaux
Episcopal Supervisor
Dr. Pamela DeVeaux
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. At every level of the Connection and in every
local church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church shall engage in carrying out the spirit of
the original Free African Society, out of which the A.M.E. Church evolved: that is, to seek out
and save the lost, and serve the needy through a continuing program of :
(1) preaching the gospel,
(2) feeding the hungry,
(3) clothing the naked,
(4) housing the homeless,
(5) cheering the fallen,
(6) providing jobs for the jobless,
(7) administering to the need of those in prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, caring for the sick,
the shut-in, the mentally and socially disturbed, and
(8) encouraging thrift and economic advancement.
Start gettting ready for the Annual Conference, it will be March 17-21, 2003.
Listed below are the hotel accommodations made available by the Local Planning Commission for this meeting. When making your reservations, please ask for the Southwest Georgia Annual Conference Room Block.
Wyndam Hotel (formerly the Hilton), 800 Front Avenue, Columbus, Georgia; 1- 800-445-8667/ 706-324-1800 Rate: $85.00** ; Deadline: 02/17/03
1. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity. There is but one living and true God,
everlasting, without body or parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness;
the Maker and Preserver of all things, both visible and invisible. And in unity
of this God-head, there are three persons, of one substance, power and
eternity - the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
2. Of the Word, or Son of God, who was made very man. The Son, who is
the Word. If the father, the very eternal God, of one substance with the
Father, took man's nature in the womb of the blessed Virgin's; so that two
whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the God-headed and manhood,
were joined together in one person, never to be divided; whereof is one
Christ, very God and very Man, who truly suffered, was crucified dead, and
buried to reconcile his Father to us, and to be sacrifice, not only for original
guilt, but also for the actual sins of men..
3. Of the Resurrection of Christ. Christ did truly rise again from the dead ,
and took again his body with all things appertaining to the perfection of
man's nature, wherewith he ascended into heaven, and there sitteth until he
return to judge all men at the last day.
4. Of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the
Son is of one substance, majesty, and glory with the father and the Son,
very and eternal God.
5. Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation. The Holy
Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation; so that whatever is
not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any
man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite
or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture, we do
understand those canonical books of the Old and New Testament, of whose
authority was never any doubt in the church.