Mrs. Dianna Brown Golphin, WMS Life Member, President of the Kentucky Conference Women's Missionary Society, former President of the Thirteenth Episcopal District M-SWAWO + PK’S, the wife of the Reverend Kenneth J. Golphin, Presiding Elder of the Blue Grass District, Kentucky Annual Conference, and staff member, Office of the General Secretary/CIO

The Reverend Virginia Ann Bates, Local Elder of Sulphur Spring AME Church, North District, Tennessee Conference, Thirteenth Episcopal District

The Reverend Virginia Ann Ford, widow of the Late Reverend James W. Ford, former General Board Member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and retired Presiding Elder, Greater Dallas District of the North Texas Conference, Tenth Episcopal District; and a staff member at Abundant Life African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dallas Texas

Minister Latresa Michelle Ford Davis, daughter of the late Reverend Virginia Ann Ford, and daughter of the Late Reverend James W. Ford, former General Board Member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and retired Presiding Elder, Greater Dallas District of the North Texas Conference; and a staff member at Abundant Life African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dr. Michael W. Waters, Founder and Lead Pastor, Dallas Texas

The Reverend L.V.  "Levi" Tolefree a faithful member of the East Arkansas Conference, Twelfth Episcopal District, where he retired from active ministry after many, many years of service; the loving spouse of Sister  Ruth Tolefree; father of  Dorothy Cromwell, Hamburg, AR;  Thomas (Donna) Tolefree - Crossett, AR ,Carl (Alma) Tolefree,   Hamburg, AR,  Leslie (Sandra) Tolefree - Crossett, AR,  Kenneth (Falecia) Tolefree - Crossett, AR; brother to James Tolefree – Illinois, grandfather to 10 grandchildren and a large number of great grandchildren

Sis. E. Dewarner Dunston-Crawford, the mother of Rev. Dr. Erika D. Crawford, Connectional President of Women in Ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and pastor of Mount Zion AME Church, Dover, Delaware, First Episcopal District

Bro. Ronald (R. E.) McDonald, the brother of the Reverend Walter McDonald, Pastor of Joshua Chapel A.M.E. Church, Northwest Texas Annual Conference of the Tenth Episcopal District

Mr. Lester Hollins of Headland, Alabama, age 65, the father of The Reverend Deontae Hollins, Pastor of Tennille Chapel AME Church in Eufaula, Alabama in the Dothan-Eufaula District of the Southeast Alabama Annual Conference

 Mother Nkele Sarah Matlhare, the first elected Connectional Officer of the Women’s Missionary Society outside of the USA,  serving from 1987-1991 and re-elected in 1991-1995, and President - Eastern Block of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women (2000 to 2006)

Sister Leisa-Gaye Stewart,   born October 26, 1981, the sister of Rev. Narvalee Robinson, Itinerant Deacon, Jamaica Annual Conference, Sixteenth Episcopal District

The Right Reverend William Phillips DeVeaux Sr., the 113th Elected and Consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Evangelist Catherine L. Carson, wife of The Rev. Dr. Michael Carson, minister of the Fourth Episcopal District and columnist for The Christian Recorder

Mr. Jay O. Gould, Jr., (age 60), the younger brother of the Reverend Dr. Anita J. Gould, Pastor of Agape AME Church, Gaithersburg, MD, Washington Conference, Second Episcopal District

The Reverend Walter Lee Walters, II, former pastor and former Presiding Elder; a pastor for over 50 years across the Illinois, Indiana and Chicago Conferences of the Fourth Episcopal District

Dr.  Kevin R. McCray, the youngest brother of the Rev. Dr. Michael McCray, Pastor of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, Roanoke, VA, Second Episcopal District