Archive for August 2020

Dear CME Family, The College of Bishops of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is expressing our support, solidarity and admiration for the Milwaukee Bucks, the NBA, WNBA and MLB players for their courageous actions, leadership and rise to the, “Call of the Moment”, by their refusal to play to bring attention to racial injustices taking…

  The Committee on Episcopacy, charged according to Paragraph 431 of The Book of Discipline, Revised 2018, met on Sunday evening August 16, 2020, and unanimously voted to assign Retired Senior Bishop Paul A. G. Stewart, Sr., the new presiding bishop of the Ninth Episcopal District. The necessity to assign a new bishop was required…

Bishop Bobby R. Best, the 61st Bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, passed Sunday night, August 2, 2020. Bishop Best presided over the Ninth Episcopal District. Funeral arrangements will be announced as soon as available. Bishop Best was elected bishop in 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland, on the first ballot. He is survived by his…

 Growing The Church During A Pandemic  Rev. Leon C. Moore, Jr., General Secretary of Evangelism and Missions   Although the doors for many churches have been closed since mid-March 2020, we have a unique opportunity as pastors and laity to look at innovative ways to grow the local church. Doing things right the first…