AME Zion Church gets first female Bishop

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13-11-08

THE Presiding Prelate of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (A.M.E. Zion Church) , Rt. Reverend Dr Mildred Bonnie Aku Hines, has called on males and females of the church to join hands and move the church and nation forward.
Bishop Hines, 53, the first female Presiding Prelate in the history of the A.M.E. Zion Church, said her aim was to promote unity.
Though a female Bishop, she said, she was not going to concentrate on women but would work with both men and women to achieve the purpose of Christ for her life.
Bishop Bonnie Hines, who is presiding over the Western-West District of the A.M.E. Zion Church, has undertaken a familiarisation tour of the district after her election in June this year in Atlanta .
The Western-West District of the Church is made up of Churches in Ghana, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia .
According to the Bishop, she would work in the area of education and leadership development, which would begin with the children.
Bishop Bonnie Hines was accompanied by the Missionary Supervisor, Mrs Gwendolyn Brumfield, and Rev Dr Kermit Kwesi DeGraffenreidt. They visited the church's vocational and girls senior high school at Klikor in the Volta Region and Winneba respectively for Bishop Bonnie Hines to acquaint herself with their problems.
She urged members of the church to gird up their loins with what God had given them and redeem the world for Christ.