About the A.M.E. Church...
The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During a worship service at St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church, some of African descent were praying, and while doing so were pulled up off their knees by some of the white members and ordered to the back seats. Nineteen walked out of the church. Amongst these there was one by the name of Richard Allen, whose leadership had helped form the Free African Society, which would later organize into the African Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Richard Allen became our first Bishop.
The A.M.E. Church was the first major black movement in America. A church founded not out of theological differences, but from the sin of racial discrimination. Today the A.M.E. Church extends over the continental United States and stretches into Africa and the world over.
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