This website represents a partnership between the 7th Episcopal District of the AME Church and the Medical University of South Carolina. Representatives of the Church, headed by Reverend Allen W. Parrott, Director of Christian Education AMEC, along with faculty and staff from MUSC headed by Dr. Marilyn Laken, Director of Special Initiatives at MUSC, identified health needs of AME members and designed educational programs to meet those needs. The website contains a cookbook with lower fat versions of our favorite recipes, fact sheets that explain health conditions, chat rooms on a variety of health-related topics led by Church members and MUSC faculty, local health and education resources, links to other sites on the web with information on health, and a special program for children and adolescents. Church members are available to help you use the website.

This is not an ordinary website. Every part of this website was developed jointly by AME members and MUSC faculty and staff. Every part was evaluated to make sure church members find the information useful and meaningful. It is our hope that everyone will benefit from the information in this website and that it will help all the members of the AME Church maintain health and well-being.