Laymen's Directory Michigan A.M.E. Churches 1957

Detroit: Bolar Printing and Publishing Co, 1957. Very good.. 20pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and light foxing. Former owner's signatures on inside front wrapper and rear wrapper. A rare directory of laypersons for the Michigan African Methodist Episcopal Church, listing hundreds of congregants, their addresses, and phone numbers by their local churches throughout the state and even one in Chatham, Ontario. The work also includes a full-page notice on the new Bishop, Reverend Joseph Gomez, as well as a page of "Things You Should Know About the A.M.E. Laymen's Organization," a listing of the staff of the Michigan Annual Conference, an "In Memoriam" for Brother Albert Williams (recently-deceased founder of the Laymen's Organization of the A.M.E. Church), and a page of testimonials on serving as a layman with photographic portraits of five people. The only listing in OCLC records a 1963 edition at the Library of Michigan.