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In his visit to a predominantly African American church, Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic presidential candidate from Indiana, made sure to arrive early and to bring his Bible with him.

He took a seat in the third pew at William J. Barber’s racially diverse Green­leaf Christian Church on Decem­ber 1, and to all appearances Buttigieg, a Harvard graduate who became a Rhodes Scholar and speaks seven languages, was the perfect church guest.

In December, the African Methodist Episcopal Church an­nounced the relaunch of AME Voter Alert, its voting awareness campaign. The goal of the campaign is to encourage AME congregants—and the nation’s black communities more broadly—to vote in the 2020 presidential election.