Bethel Church of Morristown lives the mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, ministering to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental needs of all people by spreading Christ’s liberating gospel through word and deed. Our Mission is rooted in the foundation laid by Bishop Richard Allen, who in the City of Philadelphia in 1787 started the movement that later became the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
From 1843 until this very moment, Bethel continues to seek out and save the lost, and serve those who are in distress through a continuing program of (1) preaching the gospel, (2) feeding the hungry, (3) clothing the naked, (4) housing the homeless, (5) cheering the fallen, (6) providing jobs for the jobless, (7) administering to the needs of those in prisons, hospitals, nursing homes, asylums and mental institutions, senior citizens’ homes; caring for the sick, the shut-in, the mentally and socially disturbed, and (8) encouraging thrift and economic advancement.
We are A.M.E.
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
OUR DENOMINATION
The African Methodist Episcopal Church has a unique and glorious history. It is unique in that it is the first major religious denomination in the Western World that had its origin over sociological and theological beliefs and differences. It rejected the negative theological interpretations which rendered persons of African descent second class citizens. The AME made a theological declaration that God is God all the time and for everybody. The AME church was born in protest against slavery—against dehumanization of African people.
