As AME Church meets for general conference, retirement plan questions continue
The opening of the African Methodist Episcopal Church quadrennial general conference on August 21 in Columbus, Ohio. (Video screengrab)
When Carieta Cain-Grizzell reached age 75, she had expected to retire after a lifetime as an African Methodist Episcopal Church member who became a pastor of several of its churches.
Instead, the Washington, DC, native-turned-Californian is now “on loan” to the United Methodist Church, first pastoring a Fair Oaks congregation and recently appointed to one in Oakland.
“Pastoring is my ministry,” said Cain-Grizzell, whose lineage in the historically Black AME denomination traces back five generations. “It was something that I wanted to do,
although I had to do it even if I didn’t want to do it.”
