Bill Text: IL HR0090 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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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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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
Representatives would like to declare African Methodist
Episcopal (AME) Church Day on March 27, 2021 and celebrate the
AME Church's 205th anniversary of their founding in 1816; and
WHEREAS, The African Methodist Episcopal Church was born
through adversity and grew out of the Free African Society
(FAS), which was established in Philadelphia by Richard Allen,
Absalom Jones, and others in 1787; due to racial
discrimination at St. George's MEC, members made plans to
transform their mutual aid society into an African
congregation; Bethel AME was dedicated in 1974 with Richard
Allen as its pastor; and
WHEREAS, The geographical spread of the AMEC prior to the
Civil War was mainly restricted to the Northeast and Midwest;
the denomination reached the Pacific Coast in the early 1850s;
the most significant era of denominational development
occurred during the Civil War and Reconstruction; because of
its rapid spread below the Mason-Dixon line, AME membership
reached 400,000; and
WHEREAS, Today, the African American Methodist Episcopal
Church has membership in 20 Episcopal Districts in 44

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countries on five continents; the work of the Church is
administered by 21 active bishops and nine general officers,
who manage the departments of the Church; Reverend John
Franklin White is the 130th Elected and Consecrated Bishop and
is the Presiding Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District of
the AME Church (AMEC); he supervises AME Churches and pastors
in Canada, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and
Illinois; his wife, Mrs. Penny Hartsfield White, is the
Episcopal Supervisor of the Fourth District; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we declare African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Day on
March 27, 2021 and congratulate the AME Church on their 205th
anniversary; and be it further
RESOLVED, that we recognize the Fourth District Council
for its leadership and service, and we wish the AME continued
success in its mission to minister to the social, spiritual,
and physical development of all people.