For Immediate Release June 22, 2017 Madison, NJ CONTACT- Carol L. Travis, Executive Assistant – info@aamhc-umc.org The African American Methodist Heritage Center Offers New Grant Opportunity The African American Methodist Heritage Center (AAMHC) announced today a new grant opportunity to local United Methodist African American congregations doing/planning innovative ways to recover, preserve and/or present their […]
BMCR represents and is dedicated to more than 2,400 Black United Methodist congregations and approximately 500,000 African American members across the United States.
African American Methodist Heritage Center Annual Report of The African American Methodist Heritage Center To The 50h Annual Meeting of the Black Methodists for Church Renewal – March 8, 2017 “… each of you take up a stone … so that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to […]
2016 marked the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the African-American Methodist heritage center in Madison, new jersey. for many years, there was a concern that the legacy of African-Americans in Methodism was being lost because heirs were not always aware that items like papers, journals or photographs were of value to the church. the […]
The recent dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, DC reminds United Methodists of their creative and crucial role in the history of people of color. Both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas received their beginnings from Methodist societies on the Eastern shore of Maryland and […]
The African American Methodist Heritage Center (AAMHC) is establishing an oral history library to recover and preserve the stories of African American lay and clergy Methodists who were active beyond the local church during the period of the Central Jurisdiction and its subsequent merger with the geographical jurisdictions. We stand on the shoulders of those […]
At the 2016 General Conference in Portland, Ore., for the first time, United Methodists experienced a new reality — what it means to be a global church. Some people commented on the presence of spontaneity, passion, evangelistic fervor and vitality offered by churches from Africa and the Philippines. European delegates with their multiple language skills […]
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 […]