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49Th General Conference Session Official Minutes OFFICIAL MINUTES of the FORTY – NINTH QUADRENNIAL SESSION of the GENERAL CONFERENCE of THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Convening in Charlotte, North Carolina at THE CHARLOTTE CONVENTION CENTER 301 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 July 18 - 24, 2012 HOSTED BY Little Rock A.M.E. Zion Church 301 North McDowell Street Charlotte, North Carolinas 28204 Rev. Dr. W. Robert Johnson, III, General Secretary-Auditor Rev. Dr. Dwayne Anthony Walker, Host Pastor Rev. James M. Sloan, Host Presiding Elder Bishop Richard K. Thompson, Program Chair Bishop George W. C. Walker, Sr., Senior and Host Bishop Bishop Darryl B. Starnes, Sr., President, Board of Bishops Bishop George W. C. Walker, Sr., Senior and Host Bishop 1 FOREWORD STATEMENT OF COMMITTEE ON COMPILATION This document is not a journal but a record of the actions taken during the 49th Session of the General Conference July 18th – 24th, 2012. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Official Roll of Bishops Official Roll of General Officers General Officers of the W. H. & O. M. Society General Conference Delegates General Conference Committees DAILY PROCEEDINGS EPISCOPAL DISTRICT REPORTS Piedmont Episcopal District: Bishop George W. C. Walker, Sr. Eastern West Africa Episcopal District: Bishop S. Chuka Ekemam North Eastern Episcopal District: Bishop George E. Battle, Jr. Eastern North Carolina Episcopal District: Bishop Richard K. Thompson Mid- Atlantic II Episcopal District: Bishop Warren M. Brown Mid- West Episcopal District: Bishop Roy A. Holmes Mid - Atlantic I Episcopal District: Bishop Louis Hunter, Sr. Alabama - Florida Episcopal District: Bishop James E. McCoy South Atlantic Episcopal District: Bishop Kenneth Monroe Southwestern Delta Episcopal District: Bishop Darryl B. Starnes, Sr. Western Episcopal District: Bishop Dennis V. Proctor Western West Africa Episcopal District: Bishop Mildred B. Hines 3 REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS General Secretary-Auditor: Rev. Dr. W. Robert Johnson, III Bureau of Evangelism: Rev. Dr. Otis T. McMillan Chief Financial Officer: Shirley Welch Editor of Star of Zion: Addie Lisby Editor of Quarterly Review and Historical Society: Rev. Dr. J. David Armstrong Secretary - Treasurer, Overseas Missions and Editor of Missionary Seer: Rev. Dr. Kermit J. DeGraffenreidt Secretary of Christian Education: Rev. Dr. Raymon E. Hunt Editor of Church School Literature: Dr. Mary A. Love Director of Public Affairs and Social Concerns: Rev. George E. McKain, II Director of Department of Health and Social Concerns: Rev. Dr. Bernard H. Sullivan General Manager, A.M.E. Zion Publishing House: Rev. Dr. David R. Baker 4 DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH PIEDMONT EPISCOPAL DISTRICT Blue Ridge Conference [BRC] Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegates Rev. Herbert Grant Rev. Darwin Little Rev. James A. McDougald Rev. Keith Lipsey Rev. William Staley Rev. Clevan Davis Rev. Mildred Twitty Rev. Kay M. Hines Lay Delegates Lay Alternate Delegates Annie K. Craig Jacqueline Collins-Hudson Rosetta Ferguson Annette Boyce Kenneth Bernard Hines, Sr. Eslinda Kemp Beverly J. Workman Melinda Lowrance West Central North Carolina Conference [WCNCC] Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegates Rev. Haven O. Anderson Rev. David A. McLean Rev. Michael A. Frencher, Sr. Rev. Ronald E. Miller 5 Rev. J. Ruth Davis Rev. Vivian Williams Rev. Michael E. Ellis Rev. Kenneth D. Lee (Deceased) DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH West Central North Carolina Conference [WCNCC], cont’d Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegates Rev. William M. White, Jr. Rev. Valerie Washington Rev. Andrew B. Smoke Rev. Michael J. Massey, Sr. Rev. Clarence J. Shufford Rev. James Smith, Jr. Rev. Johnnie P. Henderson Rev. Murray L. Edwards Rev. Tracii Miller Rev. Tyrone K. Rigsby Rev. Kelsey G. L. Steele Rev. Janice Ingram Lay Delegates Lay Alternate Delegates Carolyn Quick Elizabeth James Alice Steele-Robinson Pauline B. Jackson Minnie McRae Ruby Pearson Thomasina S. Spencer Walter Stancil 6 Gelenia A. Frencher Preston Waddell Patricia McCoy DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH West Central North Carolina Conference [WCNCC], cont’d Lay Delegates Lay Alternate Delegates Cassie Rush Sallie Holmes-Gray Pamela Ford Walton Jones Melissa Slade Betty B. Evans Bruce Stanback Maxine Davis Arthur Purcell Western North Carolina Conference [WNCC] Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegates Rev. Calvin L. Miller Rev. Henry L. Hall Rev. David Baker Rev. George Erwin Rev. Sheldon Shipman Rev. William M. Jordan III Rev. Dwayne A. Walker Rev. Bobby L. Smith 7 Rev. Seth O. Lartey Rev. Dwayne L. Tutt Rev. Carolyn Bratton DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Western North Carolina Conference [WNCC], cont’d Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegates Rev. George H. McNeely Rev. James M. Sloan Rev. Herbert R. Warren, Jr. Rev. Benjamin L. Morrow Rev. J. Wardell Henderson Rev. J. Elvin Sadler Rev. Grant Harrison Rev. David Williams Rev. T. Anthony Spearman Rev. Michael McLean Rev. Johnny Ruff Rev. Milton A. Williams, Jr. Rev. Derrick R. Anderson Rev. Amy S. Ciceron Rev. Charles F. Tillett, Jr. Rev. Anthony Freeman 8 DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Western North Carolina Conference [WNCC], cont’d Lay Delegates Lay Alternate Delegates Jerry McCombs Leondras Davis Russell Lackey Sandra Williams Shirley W. Damon Alista Cozzie Watkins Ervin D. Reid Sharon G. Hargrove Mary S. Ponds Herbert L. Mayberry Yvonne Tracey Joyce A. Zimmerman Vilma D. Leake Trubbie R. Leeper Bessie F. Baker Tonya A. Cornelius Janice Spearman Gwendolyn D. Hardin Marie P. Tann Mary Bonaparte Gilbert McRae Connie Bell Williams 9 Shirley Allen Joyce Reid Dorothy Gill-Smith DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Western North Carolina Conference [WNCC], cont’d Lay Delegates Lay Alternate Delegates Lillian Pryor Williams Joanne Harrison Jamaica [All Divisions] Cornwell Conference [CWC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Vernon Forrester Rev. Kelly-Ann Tomlinson Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Rehamah Forrester Middlesex Conference [MDSXC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Leroy McLean 10 Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Quasheeba Cummings DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Surry Conference [SRYC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Melrose Minott Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Viviene Ireland EASTERN WEST AFRICA EPISCOPAL DISTRICT Akwa Nigeria Conference [ANIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Imo E. Umoinyang Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Unyime-Abasi Ephriam Matthew Central Nigeria Conference [CNIGC] Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Godson Ndubuisi Elijah Rev. Jonathan N. Nwadike 11 Lay Delegates Lay Alternate Delegate Shadrack Ekwutosi Nmeka Caroline Chinwe Olua O. Ngaokwere Ekemam DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Cross River Nigeria Conference [CRNIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Uduak Usen Effiong Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Margaret Mbang Caiafas Lagos-West Nigeria Conference [LWNIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. David U. Isong Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Mainland Nigeria Conference [MNIGC] Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. George Washington 12 Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Sarah Cherrington DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Nigeria Conference [NIGC] Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Michael Edet Osung Rev. Wilson T. Udokpan Rev. John W. Forbes Rev. Barbara LaToison Rev. John Morris Lay Delegates Lay Alternate Delegate Bassey Asuquo Anietie Akai Stellar Amuche Ekemam Samuel Chuka Ekemam, Jr. Northern Nigeria Conference [NNIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Donald J. Epko 13 Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Ella Moore DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Port Harcourt Nigeria Conference [PHNIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Cheta Izogo Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Adolphus Akachukwu Nnadi Rivers Nigeria Conference [RNIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Umor Olu Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Dorathy E. Onyemughan South-Eastern Nigeria Conference [SENIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate 14 Rev. Takis E. J. Caiafas Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Hillary Ekemam DELEGATES TO THE 49TH QUADRENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH Southern Nigeria Conference [SNIGC] Ministerial Delegate Ministerial Alternate Delegate Rev. Isong Stephen Nteng Lay Delegate Lay Alternate Delegate Udo H. Ekpeowo NORTH EASTERN EPISCOPAL DISTRICT New York Conference [NYC] Ministerial Delegates Ministerial Alternate Delegates Rev. W. Darin Moore Rev.
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