February 16, 2025 - Black History Presentation

 Welcome from Brown Chapel/Avant, Mt. Pleasant & Shiloh

Black History Moment:

                                                                Richard Allen

The African Methodist Episcopal Church

The AME Church was founded by Richard Allen (1760–1831) in 1816 when he called together five African American congregations of the previously established Methodist Episcopal Church with the hope of escaping the discrimination that was commonplace in society, including some churches. It was among the first denominations in the United States to be founded for this reason (rather than for theological distinctions). Allen, a previously ordained deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was elected by the gathered ministers and ordained as its first bishop in 1816 by the first General Conference of the five churches—extending from the three in the Philadelphia area in Pennsylvania to ones in Delaware and Baltimore, Maryland.

The AME Church currently has 20 districts, each with its own bishop: 13 are based in the United States, mostly in the South, while seven are based in Africa. The global membership of the AME is around 2.5 million members, and it remains one of the largest Methodist denominations in the world.

Church Service

Prayer: Pastor Baggett

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-12 - My loved ones, let us have for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.  He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love. And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.  And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.  My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.  No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us.

Subject: What About God's Love

• Love is used sometimes without thought. But what about God's love?
• God's love should warm our hearts.
• Characteristics of God's love.
• God's love is personal to us.
• God's love is unconditional (Agapy love)
• John 10:14-15 - I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.  As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
• God's love for us is proven.
• God's love was made manifest through Jesus Christ.
• Jesus is the love for us in human form.
• Love along with faith is action.
• God's love is perfected in us.
• God made us perfect and complete.
• God's love completes us.
• Good things are not only material things but also spiritual things.
• God's love is preserving.
• God gave His best.
• Our sacrifice is important to God as He gave us His only Son.
• God sent His Son to be sacrificed and to preserve us.
• John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
• What about God's love?  You can't beat it no matter how hard you may try.

Invitation to Christian Discipleship

Roll Call:

Pastor Baggett

Debra W.

Thelma W.

Rev. I. Pelton

Willie & Bonnie T.

Evelyn H. 

Clark M.

Ginger R.

Violet W.

Eddie & Marina J.

Gina L.

Rhonda L.

Closing Prayer: Pastor Baggett

                                                          Closing Song: 

                                            We've Come This Far By Faith