New Bethel A. M. E. Church
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"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 and later both deacon and elder 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 consecrated the first Bishop. The AME Church in the Bahama Islands have been in existence for a little more than a hundred years, beginning with Bethel AME Church in Savannah Sound, Eleuthera. Currently, there are mor ethan a dozen congregations in Nassau, Freeport, and Eleuthera. ALso, there are 7 Annual (regional) Conferences in Florida and 1 for the Bahama Islands representing nearly two-hundred thousand parishioners. Our 10 million dollars Headquarters Building and our one-hundred twenty-five years old Edward Waters College, both located in Jacksonville, FL, are the pride of the 11th Episcopal District (Florida/Bahamas) The African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest predominantly African- American Christian denomination in the Western World. There are other Black Methodist connections such as the AME Zion Church (organized in 1820 in New York) and the C. M. E. Church (formerly called "Colored Methodist Episcopal" Church until 1954 when the name was changed to "Christian Methodist Episcopal" Church, organized in 1870 in Jackson, TN) but the AME Church is the oldest and largest of them all! The AME Church's membership in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, alone, is larger than the combined worldwide memberships of the AME Zion, CME, and Blacks in the United Methodist Church. 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, Prince Hall (founder of the Black Masonic Lodge), Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Senator Hiram Revels, Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Carl O. Flipper, (Rev. Brown vs Topeka Board of Education), Roy Wilkins, A. Phillip Randolph, W. C. Handy, Donna Summers, Dionne Warwicke, Daisy Bates, Oprah Winfrey, Arsenio Hall, 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." When visiting the Bahamas, phone us. "Come thou with us and we will do thee good."
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"AME CONGREGATIONS in the BAHAMA ISLANDS" ROBINSON-MORRIS AME CHURCH, NASSAU, Rev. Howard Williamson; COUSIN-McPHEE AME CHURCH, NASSAU, Rev. Ranford Patterson; ALLEN CHAPEL AME CHURCH, ROCK SOUND,ELEUTHERA, Rev. Ellison Greenslade; MOTHER BETHEL AME CHURCH, SAVANNAH SOUND, ELEUTHERA, Rev. Daniel Scott; MINISTERS' WIVES CENTER AME CHURCH, NASSAU, Rev. Johnny Clarke; ST. PHILLIPS AME CHURCH, FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMAS, Rev. Lucius Anderson CUMMINGS TEMPLE AME CHURCH, FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMAS, Rev. Herman Thompson; ST. THOMAS AME CHURCH, PALMETTO POINT, ELEUTHERA, Bro. Richard Sands; ST.LUKE AME CHURCH, DEEP CREEK, ELEUTHERA, Rev. Charles Cooper; NEW BETHEL AME CHURCH, NASSAU, Faith Maycock
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