ELLOREE -- The final day of the Seventh District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 2009 Central Annual Conference is Friday, Oct. 16, at Brown Chapel AME Church in Elloree.

The conference began Monday, Oct. 12, and is comprised of the Orangeburg, Manning and Wateree districts. This is the 86th session of the Central Conference, making it the youngest of the six annual conferences held in the Seventh District, which encompasses the entire state of South Carolina. With 18 churches in Orangeburg, 23 in Manning and 22 in Wateree, the Central Conference contains approximately 25,000 AME members.

Hundreds of AME clergy and delegates from throughout South Carolina have attended the conference, during which a variety of committees have been addressing issues such as the state of the church and country, family life, Christian education, temperance, evangelism, women's and youth ministries, social action, and prison and hospital ministries.

The annual conference is where the entire AME Church comes together to assess what has been accomplished during the previous year, set goals for the upcoming year and renew its soul in the Holy Spirit of God.

For more information, visit ame7.org.

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