Gulfside ‘Restoration’ – Methodist leaders gather at retreat center United Methodist leaders and visitors from across the country gathered Saturday on sacred ground in Waveland for the restoration of a historic outdoor retreat center. Gulfside Assembly leaders hosted a ceremony to honor the first structure erected on the property since Hurricane Katrina. The deadly hurricane […]
The Central Jurisdiction is the way the Methodist Church, from 1939 – 1968, practiced segregation. All Methodist African American conferences and local churches were placed in this Jurisdiction. This ensured the separation of whites and blacks at all levels, except at the very highest. But since the ending of that jurisdiction in 1968 and the […]
Although many aspects of the Black presence, participation and contribution to the Methodist heritage have been discovered and recorded, much work remains to be done. In light of that reality, the African American Methodist Heritage Center Board has directed its Program Commit-tee to assume the lead to work on several kinds of research. The large […]