Ordinations, promotions, graduations, birthdays, new members, and those we hold in memory.
The observances of the A.M.E. Zion connection and of this house. Exact dates each year are announced from the pulpit and posted above.
| First Sunday, monthly | Holy Communion The Lord’s Supper is served at morning worship on the first Sunday of every month. |
| Late January | Marie L. Clinton Day Honouring Marie Louise Clay Clinton, founder of the Buds of Promise children’s missionary society. |
| February | Founder’s Day & Black History Month Honouring the founders of 1820 and the witness of the Freedom Church. |
| June 6 | Church Anniversary Founded June 6, 1820. The oldest tradition in the house. |
| Mid-June | Children’s Day Weekend The Christian Education Department’s connectional celebration of children and youth. |
| First Sunday in October | Varick Sunday Remembering James Varick, first bishop of the A.M.E. Zion Church. |
| Third Sunday in October | Connectional Lay Sunday Lay members lead worship across the denomination; the Lay Sunday offering is received. |
| October | Life Members Month The Women’s Home and Overseas Missionary Society honours its life members. |
| November | YAMS Founders Day Young Adult Missionary Society founders are remembered. |
| December 31 | Watch Night The congregation prays in the new year together, keeping the Methodist watch that Black churches made their own on Freedom’s Eve, December 31, 1862. |
| Date announced | Pastor’s Appreciation Giving thanks for Rev. Dr. King’s years of service. |
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