The Mission of Greater St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church is to
minister to the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional, and environmental
needs of all people by spreading Christ's liberating gospel through word and deed.
At every level of the Connection, Greater St. James African Methodist Episcopal
Church shall engage in carrying out the spirit of which the A.M.E. Church evolved:
that is, to seek out and save the lost, and serve the needy 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) 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
(7) encouraging thrift and economic advancement.
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead; and buried. The third day he arose from the dead' he ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Church Universal, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen