AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Fifth Episcopal District

Bishop Clement W. Fugh, Presiding Bishop
 
2020 Annual Conference Series Virtual and/or Tele-Conference
 
A G EN D A
 
Wednesday
 
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon      Women’s Missionary Society Convention Mrs. Alexa B. Fugh, Supervisor        Presiding

 

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.  Women In Ministry Convention  Annual Conference Coordinator        Presiding

 

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.  Conference Lay Organization   Conference Branch President,  Presiding

 

Thursday  
 
8:40 – 8:45 a.m.     Host Church Greeting        (Welcome/Snippets/Montage)  
 
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.  Devotional Service    Participants TBA
 
9:00 – 10:45 a.m.     Annual Conference Business Session I  Call to Order     Bishop Clement W. Fugh
 
 Roll Call     Conf. Sec’ty via Zoom/Call-in Record        (Call in may begin at 8:15 a.m.)    Organization     

Election and Appointment of Conf. Officers (The slate of Officers is posted in categories as they are presented by Presiding Elders and acted on.)    

Approval of the AGENDA
 
Presiding Elder Summaries (Financial Reports made on Tuesday.  Thank pastors and

 

members for their stewardship.))

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Report of Board of Examiners (Note:  Candidates for Admissions, and for Deacon and Elder orders will be acted on in an actual assembly, not in a virtual setting.)
 
Casting the Quadrennial Vision Bishop Fugh
 
10:45 -11:00 a.m.     Intermission/Proprietary Session (ZOOM continues for Ministers and  Delegates; Observers will see pre-recorded content.)
 
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.    Annual Conference Business Session II

Pastor’s Annual Reports (Pre-record Pastors reporting on Conversions, Accessions and Baptisms – 60 seconds.  Post picture of Pastor or Church.)
 
Reports from Essential Committees (ALL Committees are to file reports with the Conference Secretary prior to the convening of the Conference except the Finance Committee and Ministerial Efficiency Committee.)
 
Memorials (Memorial Litany with Names of  those remembered)
 
Retirement (Retirement Litany with Conference Secretary presenting names of retirees)
 
Disciplinary Questions
 
Conference Resolution  (Resolution Committee to work with Conference Secretarial Staff to prepare and exhaustive summary.)
 
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.     Intermission/Break (Do not log off)
 
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.     Commissioning Activities
 
Worship (See Template for Abridged Order of Service with a Sermon.)              Announcing of Certificates, Appointments, Adjournment
 

 Friday

Friday 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 

Young People’s Department Activity  YPD Director and YPD President         (Program Coordinators)
 
 

Planning Meetings
Monday, October 26, 2020 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. CDT
 
Essential Committees;  Finance Committee  Trustee Board  Board of Examiners  Ministerial Efficiency  Women’s Missionary Society  Young People’s Department  Lay Organization  Classification of Churches  Classification of Pastors  Memorial Committee  Summary of Minutes  Conference Resolution

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