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The 165th Session of the New England Conference North Eastern Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church was held from June 2-June 7, 2009, hosted by the Varick Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church,host pastor, The Reverend Eldren D. Morrison. The conference theme was "But seek ye first the kingdom of God..Mathew 6:33.
New Haven is a historic city and the land of the Quinnipiacs precede us all. But New Haven black history is rich and fertile and
the conference hosting here in New Haven replenished that legacy.
In an article on the bicentennial of the A.M.E. Zion Church for the Ebony magazine, author, Lisa Jones Townsel, wrote, “Officially born October 1796, the new Black denomination was chartered in 1801 and firmly established in 1820 when the leaders voted themselves out of the White Methodist Episcopal Church. The next year, church founders agreed to call the church the African Methodist Episcopal Church in America. But to distinguish this New York-based group from the Philadelphia Black Methodist movement which emerged about the same time, the word "Zion" was added to the title during the church's general conference in 1848.
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click on link for part 2 of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ceeoWqk7ZQ
part 3:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdVMWxX0NE
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