Bethel AME Church

Mission: To support and assist the Pastor in developing ministry and programming that foster the spiritual growth and well being of the membership.

l-r: Sister Tanya Williams, Sister Jean Cotton, Sister Marie Collins, Sister Helena Walson, Sister Althea Bond, Sister Joyce King and Sister Polly Howell

Steward Board II Officers

Composition and Duties of a Steward

The Pastor appointed by the presiding bishop to the local church shall be the chairperson of the Board of Stewards. The Pastor may appoint a chairperson pro tem to act in his or her absence. The Pastor in charge shall nominate the number of Stewards needed for the mission, circuit, or station and shall submit them to the Quarterly Conference, which shall confirm them.

To be qualified for this office, one must be of solid piety, know and love the Word of God, the African Methodist Episcopal Church doctrine, and The Book of Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He or she must be fruitful and of good natural or acquired ability to transact the spiritual and temporal business of the church.

Each person shall have been a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for at least (2) years, except in case of the establishment of a new congregation. The number of stewards for each church shall be not fewer than three (3) and no more than nineteen (19).

Quoted from The Book of Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 2008. Published by Order of the Forty-Eighth General Conference Held in St. Louis, Missouri, July 4-11, 2008. p65.