MISSION

The mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church is to minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ’s liberating gospel through word and deed. At every level the A.M.E. Church shall engage in carrying out the spirit of the original Free African Society, out of which the A.M.E. Church evolved; which is to bring souls to Christ and salvation, and serve the needy through a continuing program of:

• preaching the gospel

• feeding the hungry

• clothing the naked

• housing the homeless

• cheering the fallen

• providing jobs for the jobless

• administering to the needs of those in prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, asylums and mental institutions, senior citizens’ homes; caring for the sick, the shut-in, the mentally and socially disturbed, and

• encouraging thrift and economic advancement.