Ebenezer A. M. E. Church
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Ebenezer AME Church,located in St.Joseph, Missouri, and an hour's drive north of Kansas City, MO is one of the oldest and active congregations in the city. For years, this historic congregation has been actively involved in human rights, social service, and spiritual enrichment and renewal. Once a thriving and leading congregation in the North Missouri Conference (now Northwest Missouri Conference) with more than three-hundred members, it's membership has dwindled to a small group due to reverse migration, but it's determination and spirituality has never dimmed nor missed a beat. It is yet a beacon light of the community that will never go out. The current church's Pastor, Rev. L. C. Kelly, a native of Louisiana, grew up in Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington and began his ministry at Coppin AME Church in Chicago, IL under the leadership of the late (then Rev.) Bishop S. S. Morris, Jr. He is a Navy Veteran and spent most of his ministry in the 4th Episcopal District while attending Wilberforce University in Ohio. He has served pastorates in Metropolis, Alton, and Moline, IL; Hammond and Marion, IN; Minneapolis, MN; Beloit, WI; Independence, KS; and Everett, WA. His pastoral record has been one of both physical and spiritual renewal with the purchase of three new parsonages, the remodeling/restoration of four church buildings and the winning of many souls for Christ. Rev. Kelly is also known as a very popular, concert singer of gospels and hymns and an outstanding and gifted gospel preacher. He has served as a professional Community Counselor and Director of the Marion Branch of the National Urban League. We invite you to come worship with us and be blessed whenever you are in this area. Though few in numbers, our motto is, "God plus one is a majority." "Come Thou With Us and We Will Do Thee Good."
GOD OUR FATHER-CHRIST OUR REDEEMER-MAN OUR BROTHE
"THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT" "The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1787 in Philadelphia by a former slave, Richard Allen, who purchased his freedom and became a lay minister in the predominantly (white) Methodist Episcopal Church. He and others withdrew from the St. George's Methodist Church located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania due to discrimination and segregation practices and founded the Mother Bethel A. M. E. Church, first located in a blacksmith shop. In due time, other Afro-American Methodist congregations withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church and met in 1816 to organize their own connectional church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Richard Allen was elected the first Bishop. The African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest predominantly African-American Christian denomination in the Western World. It has more than 5 million members in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, England (Europe), Holland (The Netherlands in Europe), Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, Grenada, Virgin Islands, Suriname (South America), Guyana (South America), and in 19 countries throughout the African Continent. It operates 6 colleges and 2 seminaries in the United States as well as numerous nursing homes, summer camps, schools of religion, housing projects, and health clinics. It operates several colleges, seminaries, publishing houses,and health clinics in overseas areas as well. Most outstanding Afro-Americans throughout history have been members of the AME Church including Richard Allen, Henry McNeal Turner, Daniel Alexander Payne, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Senator Hiram Revels, Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Carl O. Flipper, Roy Wilkins, A. Phillip Randolph, W. C. Handy, Donna Summers, Dionne Warwicke, Daisy Bates, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, General "Chappie" James, Vernon Jordan, Dick Gregory, Rosa Parks,and many others. Today, the 213 years old AME Church continues to seek and to serve the lost, downtrodden, and to be a champion of justice the world over. "Hitherto, hath the Lord helped us."
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