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Schedule of Events

Thursday, February 9, 2023

10:00 AM Board of Examiners Chairpersons, Deans and Secretaries - Renaissance Room

11:00 AM Presiding Elders Meet with Bishop - Bishop’s Conference Room

Church School Meeting - Salon B

 

2:00 PM Women’s Missionary Society Meeting - Salon B

Christian Debutante Meeting - Salon A

 

2:30 PM Women In Ministry Meeting - Renaissance Room

Sons of Allen Meeting - Salon C

 

3:00 PM Christian Education Meeting - Salon D

The Rev. Dr. D. Albert Turk Ministry of Evangelism Meeting - Salon A

 

4:00 PM Lay Organization Meeting - Salon B

Health Commission Meeting - Health Area

Clergy Family Organization Meeting - Renaissance Room

 

7:00 PM Opening Worship Experience

The Reverend William D. Watley, Ph.D., Preaching

Pastor, Saint Philip AME Church

Atlanta, Georgia

 

Friday, February 10, 2023

 

8:30 AM Morning Glory Meditation

The Reverend Dr. David K. Allen,

Preaching

Pastor, Bethel Tabernacle AME Church

Brooklyn, New York

 

9:15 AM The Bishop Speaks

 

9:30 AM Plenary Session I

Topic: “Remembering the AME Past and Imaging

the AME Future”

Presenter: The Reverend Dennis C. Dickerson, Ph.D.

Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Retired Historiographer/Executive Director AMEC Dept. of Research and Scholarship

 

11:00 AM Plenary Session II

Topic: “Reflections on Richard Allen and The

Making of Early American Methodism”

Presenter: The Reverend Dennis C. Dickerson, Ph.D.

 

12:00 Noon Hour of Power

The Reverend Dr. Deborah K. Blanks,

Preaching

Pastor, Mount Pisgah AME Church

Princeton, New Jersey

 

1:00 PM Lunch (On Your Own)

 

3:00 PM Plenary Session III

Topic: “Transformational Local Ministry: Faith

Facilities & Financial Resources”

Presenter: The Reverend Dr. Charles F. Boyer

Pastor, Mount Zion AME Church

Trenton, New Jersey

 

4:30 PM Break

 

7:00 PM Friday Evening Worship Experience

The Reverend Dennis C. Dickerson, Ph.D.,

Preaching

 

Saturday, February 11, 2023

9:00 AM Praise and Worship

9:30 AM Presentation of Winning Essays, Posters and DVDs

The Reverend Lashonna L. Smith, Chairperson

First Episcopal District Board of Christian Education

The Reverend Jay B. Broadnax, Executive Director

First Episcopal District Board of Christian Education

 

10:30 AM Plenary Session IV

Panel Discussion: “We Cannot Go Back: The

Post Pandemic AME Church in the First Episcopal District”

 

12:00 Noon “The Sending Forth”

The Reverend M. Lloyd Guyton,

Preaching

Pastor, Saint Paul AME Church

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania