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 the
original Free African Society, out 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) 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.
