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Article: RESTRUCTURING ON METHODISTS' AGENDA BLACK DELEGATES CONVENE IN JULY.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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- June 23, 2000
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The nation's largest African-American Methodist denomination hopes to ''fine-tune'' itself for the 21st century when it holds its quadrennial General Conference in Cincinnati next month, church officials said.
About 20,000 delegates and observers with the African Methodist Episcopal Church are expected to attend the convention July 5-12 at the Dr. Albert B. Sabin Cincinnati Convention Center.
About 29 countries will be represented at the General Conference, the major policymaking body for the 2 million-member denomination.
Among the main items on the agenda are the redrawing of regional districts, a churchwide restructuring and the election and ...