The Historic Ebenezer A.M.E. Church

The Reverend Amelia Dortch

The Rev. Amelia Jarrett Dortch  is a native of Brownsville, TN, where she was educated in the public schools system. She received an undergraduate degree in History from Tennessee State University, Nashville. And her post graduate work was done at Mercy College, The University of Detroit-Mercy and Wayne State  University, where she received her MA in Secondary Education. She was formerly employed by the Detroit Board of Education and is now a teacher at the International Academy for Girls.

Rev. Amelia accepted the call to Christian Ministry in 1987 and received her MA from Ashland Theological Seminary in 1992.

Rev. Amelia is a staff minister at Ebenezer AME Church, where she takes communion to the sick and shut-in members and is a ministerial representative on the Commission on Mission and Welfare. Her primary responsibilities include visiting, calling and sending cards to our sick and shut-in members.

Rev. Amelia has also established a clothing ministry, which helps needy people world-wide.

The wife of Heyward Dortch and mother of Derrick Terrell Dortch, Rev. Amelia Dortch is a member of the Michigan Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Women in Ministry, NAACP, National Council of Negro Women, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority and the Parent-Teacher-StudentsAssociation.

Rev. Dortch’s motto is: “Be ye doers of the Word, not hearers only,” (James 1:22).