Atlanta Daily World

South Africa's
Bishop Gives
AME Address

BY THOMAS J. FLANAGAN

Before sailing to his new field with headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa, Bishop Frederick D. Jordan of Los Angeles, California, delivered the keynote message at the 44th session of the Christian Education and Rural Church Institute of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, here with Bishop Sherman L. Greene, presiding; assisted by Bishop E. C. Hatcher of West Africa.

The AME Church is the oldest independent Methodist Church among Negroes. It now has seventeen active Bishops who supervise a total membership of 1,650,000 approximately one million of whom reside in the continental United States. Bishops Jordan and Hatcher together with Bishop H. T. Primm constitute the class elected at the recent
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South Africa's
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General Conference, and will leave
shortly for the African Mission
field where their Church has maintained
work for nearly one hundred
years. In South Africa, the church
has a membership of 105,000 with
400 preaching points served by 450
ministers and Presiding Elders.
The Conference theme,
"Christ
the Hope of the World," was developed in Bishop Jordan's message
as he said, "The power which must
finally overthrow Communism and
provide the basis for enduring
peace with justice around the world,
is not military power, but spiritual
power generated as the principles
of Jesus Christ find implementation
in personal living and social
reconstruction."
Bishop Wm. A. Fountain, retired,
former presiding Bishop of
this area, commenting upon Bishop
Jordan's message recalled that both
his grandfathers,
Rev. Giles D.
Jordan and Rev. Lawrence Thomas
were pioneers of early church
life in Georgia. Bishop Jordan was
born in Atlanta and began his education in its public schools where
his father, Prof. D. J. Jordan was
a teacher.