What Is The Order Of Service In The Annual Conference Of The Ame Zion Church?

The African Methodist Episcopal Church is a connectional organization. Each local church is a part of the larger connectedness.

The Bishops are the Chief Officers of the Connectional Organization. They are elected for life by a majority vote of the General Conference which meets every four years. Bishops are spring past the laws of the church to retire upon the General Conference nearest their 75th altogether.

Presiding Elders are the administration, similar middle management, whom the Bishops engage to supervise the preachers in a Presiding Elder'south District. A Presiding Elderberry District is one portion of an Annual Conference, which in turn is 1 part of the Episcopal District over which a Bishop presides. In the Presiding Elderberry Commune, the appointed Presiding Elder meets with the local churches, that contain the Commune, at least once every iii months for a Quarterly Conference. The Presiding Elder also presides over a District Conference and a Sun School Convention in his or her District. At the end of an Annual Conference yr, the Presiding Elderberry reports to the Bishop at the Annual Conference and makes recommendations for pastoral appointments.

Pastors receive a yearly appointment to a charge (church building), on the recommendation of the Presiding Elder and with the approval and final appointment of the Bishop. The pastor is in full accuse of the Church and is an ex-official member of all boards, organizations and clubs of that Church.

structure of the church

1) THE General Briefing

The General Conference is the supreme body of the African Methodist Episcopal Church building. Information technology is composed of the Bishops, as ex-officio presidents, co-ordinate to the rank of election, and an equal number of ministerial and lay delegates, elected by each of the Annual Conferences and the Lay Electoral Colleges of the Annual Conferences. Other ex-officio members are: the General Officers, College Presidents, Deans/Presidents of Theological Seminaries; Chaplains in the Regular Military machine of the U.S.A. The General Conference meets quadrennially (every four years), but may have extra sessions in sure emergencies.

ii) Council OF BISHOPS

The Council of Bishops is the Executive Branch of the Connectional Church building. Information technology has the full general oversight of the Church during the acting of General Conferences. The Quango of Bishops shall come across annually at such time and place as the bulk of the Council shall determine and as well at such other times equally may be deemed necessary in the discharging its responsibility as the Executive Co-operative of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The Council of Bishops shall concord at least two public sessions at each almanac coming together. At the offset, complaints and petitions against a Bishop shall be heard, at the second, the decisions of the Council shall exist fabricated public. All decisions shall be in writing.

3) Board OF INCORPORATORS

The Lath of Incorporators, also known as the General Lath of Trustees, has the supervision, In Trust, of all Connectional property of the Church and is vested with say-so to act in behalf of the Connectional Church wherever necessary.

four) THE GENERAL BOARD

The Full general Lath is in many respects the administrative body and is comprised of various departmental Commissions made upwards of the respective Executive-Director, the General Secretary of the AME Church building, the Chief Financial Officer, the members of the various Commissions, and one Bishop as presiding officer with the other Bishops associating.

five) JUDICIAL Council

The Judicial Quango is the highest judicatory body of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It is an appellate court, elected by the General Briefing, and is amenable to it.