African Methodist Episcopal Church Thirteenth Episcopal District 2014-2015 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 May 30, 2015 13th District “Teach In” (Nashville, TN) Bishops ......................................................................................................................... 2 July 9-11, 2015 13th District Clergy Retreat (Nashville, TN) General Officers ............................................................................................................ 2 Connectional Officers .................................................................................................... 2 September 17-20, 2015 East Tennessee Annual Conference (Warren Chapel AME Church, Chattanooga, TN) 13th District Connectional Officers ................................................................................ 3 13th District General Board Representatives ................................................................ 4 September 24-27, 2015 Kentucky /West Kentucky Annual Conference 13th District General Conference Commission ............................................................. 4 (St. Paul AME Church, Lexington, KY) Preliminary Inquiry Committee ...................................................................................... 4 October 8-11, 2015 West Tennessee Annual Conference Presiding Elders Council ............................................................................................... 5 (St. Andrew AME Church, Memphis, TN) 13th District Component Leaders ................................................................................. 5 District Trustees ............................................................................................................ 6 October 22-25, 2015 Tennessee Annual Conference (Greater Bethel AME Church, Nashville, TN) Camp Primm Simmons ................................................................................................. 6 Believe Inc. .................................................................................................................... 6 October 29-30, 2015 Planning Meeting (Nashville, TN) Pastoral Appointments West Kentucky ...................................................................................................... 7 Kentucky ................................................................................................................ 7 East Tennessee .................................................................................................... 8 West Tennessee ................................................................................................... 9 Tennessee ........................................................................................................... 10 Conference Secretaries and Treasurers ..................................................................... 12 Ministerial Efficiency .................................................................................................... 12 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 of Disaster Relief/ Emergency Preparedness Committee Brother Darwin K. Eldridge, Lay, Treasurer Sister Lesa C. Halfacre, WMS, 2nd Vice President Dr. Roberta Hill, Historian, Conn- M- SWAWO + Pk's Brother Clay Holliday, Jr., Secretary, RAYAC Sister Billie Dixon Irving,