African Methodist Episcopal Church Thirteenth Episcopal District 2015-2016 District Summary Jeffrey N. Leath, Presiding Bishop Susan J. Leath, MD, Supervisor WMS (Note: This document is formatted to be printer friendly) Table of Contents District Calendar District Calendar ............................................................................................................ 1 December 3-5, 2015 CONVO (Atlanta, GA) Bishops ......................................................................................................................... 2 March 3-5, 2016 Midyear & General Conference Delegation Organization General Officers ............................................................................................................ 2 Connectional Officers .................................................................................................... 2 March 17-19, 2016 13th District Lay Retreat 13th District Connectional Officers ................................................................................ 3 13th District General Board Representatives ................................................................ 4 April 1-3, 2016 13th District YPD Retreat 13th District General Conference Commission ............................................................. 4 13th District RAYAC Retreat Preliminary Inquiry Committee ...................................................................................... 4 April 6, 2016 General Board (Philadelphia, PA) Presiding Elders Council ............................................................................................... 5 13th District Component Leaders ................................................................................. 5 April 7-9, 2016 Bicentennial Celebration (Philadelphia, PA) District Trustees ............................................................................................................ 6 Camp Primm Simmons ................................................................................................. 6 April 15-17, 2016 13th District WMS Retreat Legislative Taskforce ..................................................................................................... 6 July 6-13, 2016 General Conference (Philadelphia, PA) Believe Inc. .................................................................................................................... 6 Pastoral Appointments September 15-18, 2016 Kentucky/West Kentucky Annual Conference West Kentucky ...................................................................................................... 7 Kentucky ................................................................................................................ 7 September 22-25, 2016 East Tennessee Annual Conference East Tennessee .................................................................................................... 8 October 6-9, 2016 West Tennessee Annual Conference West Tennessee ................................................................................................... 9 Tennessee ........................................................................................................... 10 October 20-23, 2016 Tennessee Annual Conference Conference Secretaries and Treasurers ..................................................................... 12 Ministerial Efficiency .................................................................................................... 12 November 3-4, 2016 Planning Meeting (Nashville, TN) Judicial Committee ...................................................................................................... 12 Triers of Appeals ......................................................................................................... 13 District Budget Committee .......................................................................................... 13 Finance Committees ................................................................................................... 13 Conference Trustees ................................................................................................... 14 2014 Ordinands ........................................................................................................... 15 2014 Consecrated Deaconnesses .............................................................................. 15 Boards of Examiners ................................................................................................... 16 Committees On Instruction .......................................................................................... 16 Board of Examiner Students ....................................................................................... 17 13th District Lay Officers ............................................................................................. 20 13th District MSWAWO Officers ................................................................................. 20 13th District RAYAC Officers ...................................................................................... 20 13th District Women in Ministry Officers ..................................................................... 20 13th District WMS Officers .......................................................................................... 21 13th District YPD Officers ........................................................................................... 21 1 BISHOPS OF THE AME CHURCH GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE AME CHURCH DISTRICT BISHOP ORDER Dr. Johnny Barbour, Jr. 4th John Richard Bryant 106 President/Publisher AME Sunday School Union 3rd McKinley Young 109 2nd William Phillips DeVeaux, Sr. 113 Dr. Richard Allen Lewis 5th Theodore Larry Kirkland 114 Treasurer/CFO, AME Finance Department 11th Adam Jefferson Richardson 115 7th Richard Franklin Norris 116 Dr. Jeffery Cooper 10th Vashti Murphy McKenzie 117 General Secretary/CIO, AME Church 1st Gregory Gerald McKinley Ingram 118 6th Preston Warren Williams 119 Dr. Daryl B. Ingram 17th Wilfred Jacobus Messiah 120 Executive Director, Department of Christian Education 19th Paul Jones Mulenga Kawimbe 121 9th James Levert Davis 123 Dr. James C. Wade 15th David Rwhynica Daniels 124 Executive Director 12th Samuel Lawrence Green, Sr. 125 Department of Church Growth and Development Sarah Frances Davis** 126 Located Errenous Earl McCloud, Jr. 127 Dr. Jerome V. Harris 13th Jeffrey Nathaniel Leath 128 Executive Director, Dept. of Annuity, Investments & Insurance 8th Julius Harrison McAllister 129 18th & 16th John Franklin White 130 Dr. George F. Flowers 14th Clement Willie Fugh 131 Executive Director 20th Reginald Thomas Jackson 132 Department of Global Witness and Ministry Ecumenical and Reginald Thomas Jackson 132 Urban Affairs Rev. Teresa L. Fry Brown, Ph.D. Historiographer/Executive Director, Department of Research and Scholarship RETIRED BISHOPS Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor, III NAME ORDER Editor, The Christian Recorder John Hurst Adams 87 Frederick Hilborn Talbot 90 Vinton Randolph Anderson** 92 Frederick Calhoun James 93 RETIRED GENERAL OFFICERS Frank Curtis Cummings 95 Dr. Jamye C. Williams Philip Robert Cousin, Sr. 96 Rev. Dr. Anderson Todd, Jr.** Henry Allen Belin, Jr. 104 Rev. Dennis C. Dickerson, PhD Robert Vaughn Webster 110 Dr. Paulette Coleman Zedekiah LaZett Grady 111 Rev. Dr. Kenneth H. Hill Cornal Garnett Henning, Sr. 112 Rev. Dr. Ricky Spain** Carolyn Tyler Guidry 122 Rev. Dr. Hercules Miles ** Deceased ** Deceased 2 CONNECTIONAL OFFICERS OF THE AME CHURCH Rev. Kimberly L. Detherage, Esq. President, Women In Ministry Dr. Shirley Cason Reed President, Women’s Missionary Society Chaplain Mark Cisco President, AME Church Chaplains Association Rev. Gregory V. Eason Sr. President, Connectional Council Mr. George Brown Mrs. Jackie DuPont Walker President, Sons of Allen Consultant, Social Action Commission Mr. Robert Nicholas Mrs. Lula Shaw Cleckley Executive Director, AME Service and Development Agency (SADA) President, CONN-M-SWAWO + PK’s Rev. Dr. Donald Tucker Mrs. Ora L. Easley Consultant, General Board Nominating Committee Administrator, Clergy Family Information Center Rev. Joy L. Gallmon Ms. Martinique Mix Fellowship of Church Educators President, Richard Allen Young Adult Council (RAYAC) Mrs. Gloria Massey Ward 13TH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT GENERAL OFFICERS Administrator, Christian Debutante-Master Commission (Active and Retired) Atty. Patricia Mayberry Dr. Richard Allen Lewis, Treasurer/CFO, AME Finance Department President, Judicial Council Dr. Calvin H. Sydnor, III, Editor, The Christian Recorder Atty. William A. Marsh Jr. Special General Counsel Rev. Dennis C. Dickerson, PhD, Retired Atty. Douglass P. Selby Dr. Paulette Coleman, Retired AMEC General Counsel Rev. Dr. Kenneth H. Hill, Retired Rev. Earle H. Ifill President, Presiding Elders’ Council Rev. Anthony Vinson, Sr. Director, Music and Christian Arts Ministry Dr. Sherell Vicks Crawford Director, Young People’s and Children’s Division of WMS Dr. Willie C. Glover President, Lay Organization Rev. Natalie Mitchem, M. Div., R.D. Executive Director, Health Commission Rev. Miriam J. Burnett, MD, M. Div., MPH Medical Director, Health Commission Mr. Jon A. Ingraham President, Young People’s Division of WMS 3 13TH EPISCOPAL DISTRICT CONNECTIONAL OFFICERS Sister Ora L. Easley, Clergy Family Information Center, Administrator Brother Marcus T. Henderson, AME Trustee Sister Faye Walker, AME Trustee, Secretary Sister Doris M. Bell, Lay, Assistant Recording Secretary Rev. Lee Russell Brown, Editor, RAYAC Sister Andriette Bryant, WMS, Commissioner