Bill Text: IL SR0193 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Day at the Capitol on March 27, 2019.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-27 - Resolution Adopted [SR0193 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-SR0193-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate would like to | ||||||
3 | declare African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Day on March | ||||||
4 | 27, 2019 and welcome the AME Church leaders and congregants | ||||||
5 | from the Fourth Episcopal District to the Capitol; 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 discrimination | ||||||
10 | at St. George's MEC, members made plans to transform their | ||||||
11 | mutual aid society into an African congregation; Bethel AME was | ||||||
12 | dedicated in 1974 with Richard Allen as its pastor; and
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13 | WHEREAS, The geographical spread of the AMEC prior to the | ||||||
14 | Civil War was mainly restricted to the Northeast and Midwest; | ||||||
15 | the denomination reached the Pacific Coast in the early 1850s; | ||||||
16 | the most significant era of denominational development | ||||||
17 | occurred during the Civil War and Reconstruction; because of | ||||||
18 | its rapid spread below the Mason-Dixon line, AME membership | ||||||
19 | reached 400,000; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Today, the African American Methodist Episcopal | ||||||
21 | Church has membership in 20 Episcopal Districts in 44 countries | ||||||
22 | on five continents; the work of the Church is administered by |
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1 | 21 active bishops and nine General Officers, who manage the | ||||||
2 | departments of the Church; Reverend John Franklin White is the | ||||||
3 | 130th Elected and Consecrated Bishop and is the Presiding | ||||||
4 | Bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District of the AME Church | ||||||
5 | (AMEC); he supervises AME Churches and pastors in Canada, | ||||||
6 | Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois; | ||||||
7 | his wife, Mrs. Penny Hartsfield White, is the Episcopal | ||||||
8 | Supervisor of the Fourth District; therefore, be it
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9 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | ||||||
10 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare African | ||||||
11 | Methodist Episcopal (AME) Day at the Capitol on March 27, 2019 | ||||||
12 | and wish the AME continued success in its mission to minister | ||||||
13 | to the social, spiritual, and physical development of all | ||||||
14 | people.
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