MEET REV. DR. BARBARA R. CHISOLM
"REBUILDING AME STARTS WITH ME"
My name is Rev. Dr. Barbara R. Chisolm, I serve as a servant pastor in the seventh Episcopal District.
I come before you today asking your vote as a candidate, in becoming a Bishop at the General Conference in 2024.
The church is at a unique Crossroad, which can bring about real change in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, within this epidemic of misinformation and mistrust.
We can embrace it as an opportunity to bring about real change which can transform us and allow us to build new pathways for a stronger vibrant future.
Or we may continue to do the same thing, getting the same results, which is insanity.
My belief:
I believe we can Rebuild AME stronger and better than it has ever been before.
How:
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Trust: By Trusting God continually and by electing new leadership which can earn your trust.
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By Electing new leadership, who will hear the voice of the people and respond to the needs of the people by way of strength the Laity
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And last, by Elect new leadership who will value the people’s needs beyond their own personal needs.
Let us Rebuild AME and let it begin with you and Me.
Let us Rebuild Stronger!
Let us Rebuild Better!
And Let us Rebuild Greater than we have ever been before!!!
I am Rev. Dr. Barbara Chisolm, in becoming a Bishop.
One whom you can Trust!
One in whom will hear and respond to the voice of the people.
And one who will value people and prioritize your needs, before mine.
Let us Rebuild AME and let it begin with you and me.
Reverend Dr. Barbara R. Chisolm
Candidate for Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
She has been featured in “Grace Magazine” for two years as the leading female among strong male leadership in South Carolina, in an article, “Building A Bridge between Male and Female Leadership: The Quest Toward Racial and Spiritual Equality in the Lowcountry”. Dr. Chisolm is currently writing a 365-Daily Christian Devotion for Prayer. Dr. Chisolm has received other prestigious awards and remains a committed servant leader of the AME Church. Choose Chisholm for Bishop in 2020, as she’s always at work!
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Reverend Dr. Barbara R. Chisolm was born in Dorchester County, South Carolina. She was the final-born child of the Reverend Regina Capers and late the Mr. Jerry Capers, making her a third generation of women in ministry. She was raised in Ridgeville, SC, being reared under strong female leadership. The Mt. Pisgah AME Church family and community provided her foundation of a strong, charismatic faith, and she has maintained lifetime membership. Her activities at Mt. Pisgah included choir directing, YPD’ers, church school teacher, youth congress delegate, among other ministries. In 1981, Dr. Chisolm graduated from Cross High School in Cross, South Carolina. She enrolled at Regent University in Albany, New York, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management. She later earned a Master of Divinity degree from Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina. By May 2015, she received a Doctor of Ministry in Leadership from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, District of Columbia. Related to ministry work, by 1993 Dr. Chisolm was ordained as a deacon. Within the next two years she became an ordained Elder in the AME Church. As of today, Dr. Chisolm has 27 years of serving in ministry with the AME Church.