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The Afro-American, June 9, 2018 - June 15, 2018
Sunday Morning processional led by Robert Goodman
Ministers of the Philadelphia-Baltimore Conference
Bishop W. Darin Moore and Mrs. Katherine Burrell present Samantha Wormley Scholarship to Tyrus Pincham
May 22-27 congregants from more than 60 churches in Maryland, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia flocked to the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center for the 189th Annual Session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Bishop W. Darin Moore is the Presiding Prelate Jim Winkler, General Secretary and Mrs. Devieta Moore is National Council of Churches and the Rev. Dr. Vernon Shannon the Missionary Supervisor. The Conference featured informative workshops, spirited worship services and a blacktie Freedom Awards’ Gala and Ceremony. Special Freedom Awardees were the Rev. John Walker from Contee AME Zion Church in Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett. Guest preachers and psalmists included Bishop Louis Hunter, retired Bishop A.M.E. Zion Church; the Rev. Dr. Kevin Cosby of Louisville, Ky, the Rev. Dr. Dominique Robinson Gianna Brown of Atlanta, GA, Charles Butler and Trinity, Chris House and Kaneisha Rev. Dr. Frances “NeeCee” Trott. In addition, the “Toni” Draper, AFRO Conference Lay Council awarded Publisher/CEO $2500 scholarships to four deserving students. Bishop Moore is also the Chair of the Governing Board of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC)
Many young people participated in the conference
Photos by Yvonne Smith (l to r) Bishops Dennis V. Proctor, Louis Hunter Sr., W. Darin Moore (at the pulpit), Presiding Elders Evalina Huggins, Rita J. Colbert, and Monica Hargrove
Samantha Wormley Scholarship recipients Angelina Alozia and Kiera Brysco Bishop Louis Hunter Sr.
Samantha Wormley Scholarship recipient, Ridia Seratta
Mrs. Shanna Strickland and Missionary Supervisors Georgia Thompson, Devieta Moore, and the Rev. Lula G. Williams
Christian educators waiting to be stoled.
Women’s Home and Overseas Missionaries processional led by Missionary Supervisor Devieta Moore (2nd from the l), Georgia Woodruff (l), Wilhemina Frazier (2nd from the r), and Charlottee Umoja (far r)
John Wesley AME Zion Church (Washington, DC) Choir