SweetHome AME Church

SweetHome AME Church “God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Humankind Our Family." The immediate cause of the organization of the A.M.E.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church has a unique and glorious history. It is unique in that it is the first major religious denomination in the Western world that had its origin over sociological rather than theological beliefs and differences. Church was the fact that members of the St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia Pa., in 1787 segregated its colored members from its whi

te communicants. The Blacks were sent to the gallery of the Church, to use the venerable Richard Allen's own words. One Sunday as the Africans, as they were called, knelt to pray outside of their segregated area they were actually pulled from their knees and told to go to a place which had been designated for them. This added insult to injury and upon completing their prayer, they went out and formed the Free African Society, and from this Society came two groups: The Episcopalians and the Methodists. The leader of the Methodist group was Richard Allen. Richard Allen desired to implement his conception of freedom of worship and desired to be rid of the humiliation of segregation,especially in church. Richard Allen learned that other groups were suffering under the same conditions. After study and consultation, five churches came together in a General Convention which met in Philadelphia, Pa., April 9-11, 1816, and formed the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The name African Methodist came naturally, as Negroes at that time were called Africans and they followed the teaching of the Methodist Church as founded by John Wesley. The young Church accepted the Methodist doctrine and Discipline almost in its entirety.

Join us this Sunday, May 24 at 10 a.m.
05/22/2026

Join us this Sunday, May 24 at 10 a.m.

05/15/2026
05/07/2026

Visitation Services for Mrs. Sarah Berry

Friday, May 8, 2026
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Clark-Williams Funeral Home Inc.
602 Cherry Street
Grenada, MS 38901

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05/05/2026
We, the members of Sweethome AME Church, grieve the passing of our beloved member, Sister Sarah Berry. It is a heavines...
05/05/2026

We, the members of Sweethome AME Church, grieve the passing of our beloved member, Sister Sarah Berry. It is a heaviness we encounter each time we gather, missing her warm smile. It is a sadness that we wrestle with each time we remember we can no longer call upon her for wise counsel. Yet, we do not grieve as those who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep (1 Thessalonians 4:14 – ESV).

Those who would like to render comfort to the family through donations of food, cards, and other items may bring them to the Lewis Johnson Senior Citizen Center, 299 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, on May 9, 2026. The remembrance service will begin at 1 pm. Yours in Christ Reverend Virginia P. Burchfield, Pastor

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6043 Sweethome-Holcomb Road
Grenada, MS
38901

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Wednesday 6pm - 8pm
Sunday 9am - 12:30pm

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+16623076670

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