{"id":50,"date":"2013-07-15T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stjohncmeok.org\/stjohnwp\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2021-03-09T13:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:30:28","slug":"what-is-st-john-cme-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"CME Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Methodism\u00a0<\/strong>was birthed in the 18th century by John Wesley.\u00a0\u00a0The denomination grew rapidly and formed Methodism north and south.\u00a0\u00a0The latter consisted mainly of slave owners and their slaves.\u00a0\u00a0The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was formed December 16, 1870, when former slaves split from their masters to allow opportunities for them to the pastor, start their own churches, and provide leadership for their people.\u00a0\u00a0In the present day, the denomination is called Christian Methodist Episcopal and reports over 800,000 members and 3,000 churches.\u00a0\u00a0It is divided into 11 Episcopal districts including the U.S., Haiti, Jamaica, and Africa with 11 active bishops. Learn more about our CME Church history by accessing the national CME website at the link below.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Oklahoma Regional Level<\/strong>\u00a0is made up of two opposite sides of the state: Oklahoma City and Tulsa Districts.\u00a0\u00a0Currently, Rev. James L. Dunbar is Presiding Elder of the Oklahoma City District and Rev. Marquett Youngblood presides over the Tulsa District.\u00a0\u00a0There are district officers appointed and\/or elected to assist in unifying, training and assisting the local churches.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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St. John is a member of the\u00a09th<\/sup>\u00a0Episcopal District<\/a>\u00a0where the Rt. Rev. Bobby R. Best is the Presiding Prelate.\u00a0\u00a0The 9th<\/sup>\u00a0includes eight regional conferences Alaska-Pacific, Arizona-New Mexico, Northern California, Southern California, Oregon, Washington and Oklahoma.\u00a0\u00a0Also, nationally there are various conferences, i.e. The General Conference (held every 4 years and consists of election of bishops and general connectional officers), The National Youth and Young Adult Conference (held every 4 years), One Church One Child, Women\u2019s Missionary Society Quadrennial, Pastor\u2019s, Lay Conferences, etc.\u00a0National CME Website.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Home \/ Methodism\u00a0was birthed in the 18th century by John Wesley.\u00a0\u00a0The denomination grew rapidly and formed Methodism north and south.\u00a0\u00a0The latter consisted mainly of slave owners and their slaves.\u00a0\u00a0The Colored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6029,"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohncmeok.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}