DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL WITNESS AND MINISTRY
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
A Biographical Sketch of George Francis Flowers
Executive Director, Department of Global Witness and Ministry African Methodist Episcopal Church
BORN: Columbia, South Carolina
PARENTS: The late Mr. Christopher Flowers, Sr., and the late Mrs. Georgianna Jenkins Flowers
SPOUSE: Phoenicia Brown Flowers, Charleston, South Carolina
CHILDREN: Niko Gabriel Flowers, Brooklyn, New York
George Francis Flowers, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina
Martyn Lloyd Flowers, Charlotte, North Carolina
Public Schools of Columbia, South Carolina
Bachelor of Science, Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina, 1969
Master of Divinity, Interdenominational Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972
Doctor of Ministry, Boston School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985
United States Army Chaplain School, Received Certificate of Completion, Fort Hamilton, New York, 1973
Letterman Army Hospital, Presidio, California, Received Certificate Clinical Pastoral Education, 1974
Received Certificate of Completion, ICAM at Interdenominational Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996
Doctor of Humane Letters, Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio, 2008
1959-1962 Called to Preach Years/Student Assistant
1963-1967 Pastor, Rock Hill Mission - Rural Columbia, SC
1967-1968 Pastor, Little Mountain Circuit - Little Mountain/Chapin, SC
1968-1971 Pastor, Weston Chapel AME – Greenwood, SC
1971-1973 Pastor, Friendship AME – Clinton, SC
1973-1978 Chaplain (CPT) United States Army
1978-1980 Pastor, Bluffton Circuit – Hilton Head/Bluffton, SC
1980-1988 Pastor, Historic Liberty Hill AME – Summerton, SC
1988-1994 Pastor, St. Luke AME -- Charleston, SC
1994-2000 Pastor, Williams Chapel AME – Orangeburg, SC
2000 –Present, Executive Director, Department of Global Witness and Ministry African Methodist Episcopal Church
SPECIAL MINISTRIES:
Former Executive Director of Reid House of Christian Service, Charleston, SC
Former Member – The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston
Member of the City of Charleston and Trident United Way
Former Member of the General Board-AME Church (12 Years)
The Revisions Committee
Church World Service Board Member (12 Years) Scribe (4 Years)
Member of the World Methodist Conference: 1986, (Nairobi, Kenya) 1991, (Singapore) 2001, (Brighton, England) 2011 (Durban, South Africa)
Member of the World Methodist Conference, 2016
National Council of Churches of Christ, USA
Life Member – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Gothic Lodge # 212 – F. & A.M.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
1990 Man of the Year, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
1985 and 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award, Turner Theological Seminary
2014 Recipient of Turner Seminary Alumni Hall of Fame Induction
Presidential Award, "Fortieth Year" In Ministry, 1999
State of SC, "Order of the Palmetto"
The House of Representative & Senate Award
INTERNATIONAL TRAVELS:
The Republic of South Africa, the Caribbean Islands, Haiti, Bermuda, Germany, Korea, England, Chile, Brazil, France, Paris, Egypt, Singapore,Australia, India, South America, North Kenya, and many other countries in Central, Southern, West and East Africa.
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