ST MATTHEW AFRICAN METHODIST EPISOCOPAL CHURCH OF
Welcome to St Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1629 Bennett Street, Raleigh, NC 27604~ Pastor Marion B. Robinson
The African Methodist Episcopal Church has a unique and glorious history. It was unique in that it is the first major religious denomination in the Western World that had its origin over sociological and theological beliefs and differences. It rejected the negative theological interpretations which rendered persons of African descent second class citizens. Theirs was a theological declaration that God is God all the time and for every body. The church was born in protest against slavery – against dehumanization of African people, brought to the American continent as labor.