Candidate For Bishop AME Zion Church 2024- Rev. Julian Pridgen

https://youtu.be/MBdfGiQz8jg?si=KGbX-Ml7yPILo3nL Hello, my name is Julian Pridgen and I'm a candidate for the Workplace of Bishop in our cherished Zion. I was born and raised in a area called Whiteville, North Carolina, a small southeastern farming community located in the coastal plains of the state. When it pertains to church, my family members's origins are deeply planted in the St. Mark AME Zion Church, Whiteville, where the Pridgen name is engraved in the keystone of that structure today. My love for Christ and the church is historical as I've offered the church from a little child as an acolyte, usher, aide superintendent of the church school, Christian education and learning, priest, and much more. After finishing senior high school, I signed up with the USA Marine Corps, where I continued to be up until my retired life. And while in the Marine Corps, I accepted the call to teach and offered Zion churches in the southwestern Delta Episcopa