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The 132nd session of the Bermuda Annual Conference of the AME Church was held at the Fairmont Southampton last week. Hosted by the AME Ministerial Alliance, it was overseen by the 118th elected and consecrated bishop, the Right Reverend Gregory Ingra...

St Luke AME Church is holding a fundraising gospel concert tonight at 7.30pm at Ruth Seaton James Auditorium. Part of the proceeds will be donated to Sister Joan Simmons in support of her school in Africa. Admission is $30 and patron tickets cost $10...

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (KJV) Christmas is the mos...

Glowing tributes and testimonials were paid to the late Reverend Goodwin Douglas at his celebration of life service in the United States last month. Dr Douglas left Bermuda in the 1950s, having been inspired by Arthur Samuel Jones, the pastor of Alle...

Presiding elder Betty Furbert-Woolridge and a contingent of local pastors will travel to Philadelphia for the bicentennial celebration of the AME Church next month. The event coincides with the 50th Quadrennial Session of the General Conference, whic...

We often applaud the people who make significant contributions to our society. We call them national heroes, or we bestow honours granted by the Queen or public organisations. In celebration of Heritage Month, I would like to highlight one of our uns...

Bermuda has “a new queen”. Lovette Brangman, businesswoman and community figure, has been awarded a special honour by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Given the Sarah Bass Allen Award for outstanding church and community service, Mrs Brangman ...

The 130th session of the Bermuda Annual Conference of the AME Church was held last week under the theme, “First Things First”. The five-day conference was hosted by the AME Ministerial Alliance, which includes all AME churches in Bermuda, and led by ...

When God shows you the calling on your life you can run or you can jump on board. The Reverend Dan Albert Turk chose the latter. The 62-year-old pastor of Emmanuel AME Church in New York was a high school student at the time. “It was the kind of con...

A special delegates’ conference to determine the leadership of the Progressive Labour Party could be on the cards as the required minimum number of branches have signed up in support. It is also understood that 11 African Methodist Episcopal churches...

Delegates from a Bermuda church will visit Philadelphia next summer for a 200th anniversary celebration. Zane DeSilva, the Progressive Labour Party MP, and his wife Joanne donated $5,000 to the African Methodist Episcopal church and are now encouragi...

‘I’ve Got the Joy’ is one of Constance “Ma Pinky” Mello’s favourite hymns. “I’ve got the love of Jesus down in my heart, down in my heart, down in my heart...” The 88-year-old has been spreading the joy for the past fifty years, ministering door-to-...