The mission of the 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 and in every local church, the African
Methodist Episcopal Church shall engage in carrying out the
spirit of original free African society, out of which the
A. M. E. Church is 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) Providing jobs for the jobless
(7) Administering to the needs of those in the hospitals,
nursing homes, asylums and mental institutions, senior citizens'
homes; caring for the sick and shut-in, mentally and socially
disturbed.
(8) Encouraging thrift and economic advancement.
