Bill Text: IL HR0090 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Day on March 27, 2021. Further congratulates the AME Church on their 205th anniversary.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-18 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0090 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HR0090-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives would like to declare African Methodist | ||||||
4 | Episcopal (AME) Church Day on March 27, 2021 and celebrate the | ||||||
5 | AME Church's 205th anniversary of their founding in 1816; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The African Methodist Episcopal Church was born | ||||||
7 | through adversity and grew out of the Free African Society | ||||||
8 | (FAS), which was established in Philadelphia by Richard Allen, | ||||||
9 | Absalom Jones, and others in 1787; due to racial | ||||||
10 | discrimination at St. George's MEC, members made plans to | ||||||
11 | transform their mutual aid society into an African | ||||||
12 | congregation; Bethel AME was dedicated in 1974 with Richard | ||||||
13 | Allen as its pastor; and
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14 | WHEREAS, The geographical spread of the AMEC prior to the | ||||||
15 | Civil War was mainly restricted to the Northeast and Midwest; | ||||||
16 | the denomination reached the Pacific Coast in the early 1850s; | ||||||
17 | the most significant era of denominational development | ||||||
18 | occurred during the Civil War and Reconstruction; because of | ||||||
19 | its rapid spread below the Mason-Dixon line, AME membership | ||||||
20 | reached 400,000; and
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21 | WHEREAS, Today, the African American Methodist Episcopal | ||||||
22 | Church has membership in 20 Episcopal Districts in 44 |
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1 | countries on five continents; the work of the Church is | ||||||
2 | administered by 21 active bishops and nine general officers, | ||||||
3 | who manage the departments of the Church; Reverend John | ||||||
4 | Franklin White is the 130th Elected and Consecrated Bishop and | ||||||
5 | is the Presiding Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District of | ||||||
6 | the AME Church (AMEC); he supervises AME Churches and pastors | ||||||
7 | in Canada, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and | ||||||
8 | Illinois; his wife, Mrs. Penny Hartsfield White, is the | ||||||
9 | Episcopal Supervisor of the Fourth District; therefore, be it
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10 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
11 | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
12 | we declare African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Day on | ||||||
13 | March 27, 2021 and congratulate the AME Church on their 205th | ||||||
14 | anniversary; and be it further
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15 | RESOLVED, that we recognize the Fourth District Council | ||||||
16 | for its leadership and service, and we wish the AME continued | ||||||
17 | success in its mission to minister to the social, spiritual, | ||||||
18 | and physical development of all people.
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