{"id":19414,"date":"2013-02-04T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19414"},"modified":"2013-02-04T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:37:05","slug":"bishop-richardson-returns-to-his-first-assignment-to-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19414","title":{"rendered":"BISHOP RICHARDSON RETURNS TO HIS FIRST ASSIGNMENT TO WORSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> The Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Adam J. Richardson, was in town last weekend to spend time with the \u2018Tremendous Tampa District.\u2019 A native of Tampa, he hosted a conference, \u2018A Conversation with the Bishop on Pastoral Ministry, Leadership Training and Empowerment Institute.\u2019 He was also the guest of honor for a luncheon and a banquet. On Sunday morning, the Bishop and his wife, Supervisor Connie S. Richardson, worshipped at the first church he was assigned to, Mt. Pleasant AME Church, Odessa. Reverend Karen J. Sims is the pastor. Supervisor Connie Richardson was the speaker. Shown after the service are: Mary Scott, the Bishop\u2019s aunt; Elder Jimmy Thompson, Presiding Elder; Evangelist Bessie Thompson, Reverend Matthew and Eva James, Rev. Karen Jackson Sims and Leroy Sims; Holly Allen and Ella Moorehead, rear; Mattie Ford, and Bennie Moorehead. (Photo by Lomax McIntyre)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Adam J. Richardson, was in town last weekend to spend time with the \u2018Tremendous Tampa District.\u2019 A native of Tampa, he hosted a conference, \u2018A Conversation with the Bishop on Pastoral Ministry, Leadership Training and Empowerment Institute.\u2019 He was also the guest of honor for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}