Mission Statement
We are called to strengthen our faith and sent to continue the Ministry of Jesus Christ by service and witness in the world.
About Women’s Missionary Society
The Women’s Missionary Society (WMS) of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) is an international faith-based, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), granted Special Consultative Category II Status in 1985 in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The WMS is composed of over 800,000 members located across four continents in thirty-two countries. We are in the forefront of works of mission, at the head of the Church, operating from the highest level within each of twenty Episcopal Districts and reporting to every meeting of the General and Annual Conferences.
As the Women’s representational entity of the AMEC nationally and worldwide, the WMS has a record of 131 years of service committed to winning souls to Christ, health, economic, peace and justice issues. The WMS hosts an annual conference at the United Nations every October at which members of the various agencies and components of the United Nations offer workshops and seminars on current global issues. The WMS has established a Foundation to support education through scholarships and social and economic development for the diversified constituencies we are privileged to serve.
Rev. Richard Allen
the AME Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black
Methodist congregations in the mid-Atlantic area. Allen was consecrated its first bishop in 1816.
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 AME Church evolved: that is, to seek out and save the lost, and serve the needy through a continuing program of...
Preaching the gospel, Feeding the hungry, Clothing the naked, Housing the homeless, Cheering the fallen, Providing jobs for the jobless, 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 Encouraging thrift and economic advancement and bringing people back into church.
For more information about the WMS History, click here.