SLS 16RS-3555 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 154
BY SENATOR BROWN
SENATE. Designates May 25, 2016, as Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church Day in the Louisiana
Senate.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To designate Wednesday, May 25, 2016, as Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church Day in the
3 Louisiana Senate.
4 WHEREAS, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church) was founded
5 by Richard Allen in 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a connectional church; and
6 WHEREAS, the word "African" means that the church was organized by people of
7 African descent and heritage; and does not mean that the church was founded in Africa or
8 that it was for persons of African descent only; and
9 WHEREAS, the A.M.E. Church has more than one million members scattered across
10 the United States, Canada, South America, West Africa, South Africa, and the West Indies;
11 and
12 WHEREAS, the Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church of Napoleonville, Louisiana,
13 Assumption Parish, was organized in 1869 and named after its founder, the late Reverend
14 J. J. Nelson; and
15 WHEREAS, Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church is located within the boundaries of the
16 Eighth Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church and within the Alexandria-Thibodaux
17 Presiding Elder District.
18 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
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1 does hereby designate Wednesday, May 25, 2016, as Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church Day in
2 the Louisiana Senate.
3 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be presented to the
4 Right Reverend Julius Harrison McAllister Sr., Presiding Bishop of the Eighth Episcopal
5 District, and Reverend Gwendolyn E. Snearl, Presiding Elder of the Alexandria-Thibodaux
6 District.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SR 154 Original 2016 Regular Session Brown
Designates May 25, 2016, as Nelson Chapel A.M.E. Church Day in the Louisiana Senate.
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