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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 81
BY SENATOR ALLAIN
A RESOLUTION
To designate Wednesday, April 23, 2014, as Union Bethel AME Church Day in the
Louisiana Senate.
WHEREAS, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was founded by
Richard Allen in 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a connectional church; and
WHEREAS, Episcopal refers to the form of government under which the church
operates, having Bishops serve as the chief executive and administrative officers of the
African Methodist Episcopal denomination; and
WHEREAS, the roots of the AME are of the family of Methodist churches, which
provides an orderly system of rules and regulations and places emphasis on a plain and
simple gospel; and
WHEREAS, the word African means that the church was organized in America by
people of African heritage, to be inclusive of all person regardless of descent; and
WHEREAS, the AME church has more than one million members scattered across
the United States, Canada, South America, West Africa, South Africa, and the West Indies;
and
WHEREAS, the Union Bethel AME Church of Amelia, Louisiana, St. Mary Parish,
was organized in 1865 and the church structure was rebuilt at its current location in 1902;
and
WHEREAS, the Union Bethel AME Church is located within the boundaries of the
Eighth Episcopal District of the AME Church and within the Alexandria-Thibodaux
Presiding Elder District.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Louisiana State Senate does hereby
recognize Wednesday, April 23, 2014, as Union Bethel AME Church of Amelia, Louisiana
Day in the Louisiana Senate. SR NO. 81 ENROLLED
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Right Reverend Julius Harrison McAllister Sr., Presiding Bishop of the Eighth Episcopal
District, and Reverend Lloyd Washington, Presiding Elder of the Alexandria-Thibodaux
District.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE