St. Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1850. It stands to this day as the oldest continuous African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) congregation on the West Coast. The church began humbly, by a small group of early Black settlers in the Sacramento area, who in 1850 gathered at the home of Daniel Blue. St. Andrews’ first pastor was John Fitzgerald. The church was initially known as Bethel A.M.E. Church, and under that name, it offered lodging to slaves who were heading north from Maryland’s eastern shore. Soon thereafter, however, it became St. Andrews African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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