Los Angeles Celebration of Life for
Bishop C. Garnett Henning Sr.
Tuesday May 22, 2018
6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Family Hour/Alpha Phi Alpha Celebration
Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church
1177 W. 25th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
213.747.1367 (office)
Dr. John Cager, Pastor
Celebration of Life: Wednesday, May 23, 2018
11:00 am
First African Methodist Episcopal Church
2270 S. Harvard Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90018
323.735.1251 (phone)
323.735.3533 (fax)
Dr. J. Edgar Boyd, Pastor
Officiant: Bishop McKinley Young, Senior Bishop, Presiding Bishop 3rd Episcopal District
Eulogist: Bishop Clement W. Fugh, Presiding Bishop, 5th Episcopal District
Services entrusted to:
Angelus Funeral Home
3875 South Crenshaw Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90008
800.348.3939 (toll free)
323.296.6666 (phone)
323.296.1302 (fax)
Family Hour:
Friday, May 25, 2018
6:00-8:00 pm at R. S. Lewis and Sons Funeral Home
Celebration of Life: Saturday, May 26, 2018
11:00 am
St. Andrew African Methodist Episcopal Church
867 S.Parkway E
Memphis, TN 38106
901.948.3441 (office)
901.322.7994 (fax)
Rev. Byron Moore, Pastor
Officiant: Bishop Jeffrey N. Leath, Presiding Bishop, 13th Episcopal District
Eulogist: Bishop McKinley Young, Presiding Bishop 3rd District, Episcopal Classmate, Senior Bishop
Committal
New Park Cemetery
4536 Horn Lake Road
Memphis, TN 38109
901.785.7150
Services entrusted to:
R. S. Lewis and Sons Funeral Home
2944 Walnut Grove
Memphis, TN
901.526.3264 (phone)
901.526.3265 (Fax)
Condolences may be sent to: Mrs. Ernestine Henning at drseelove@mail.com; Mrs. Yvonne Henning Parks at mslady3x@aol.com, or Bishop E. Anne Henning at ahenningbyfield@gmail.com, or
In lieu of flowers please consider donating in honor of Bishop C. Garnett Henning to AME University Monrovia, Liberia by writing your check to the AME Church, Finance Dept, in c/o of
Dr. Richard Lewis, CFO 1134 11th Street NW, Washington, DC 20001. (202) 371-8700Dear Members:
Please find below information regarding the funeral services and lodging arrangements for Bishop Cornal Garnett Henning Sr., 112th Elected and Consecrated Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church:
Funeral Arrangements:
Updated funeral arrangements are located above.
Hotel Accommodations:
Hilton Los Angeles Airport
5711 W Century Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Room Rate: $139.00
The reservation block is made for May 22, 2018 to May 23, 2018
Reservations can be made starting May 15, 2018. Click on the link below to access the website for booking:
https://book.passkey.com/event/49687142/owner/50954/home
OR
Call the 1800-HILTONS and ask for Bishop Henning Service Block. The Booking Code is “BHS.”
Peace,
Jeffery Cooper
General Secretary/CIO
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Biography of Bishop Cornal Garnett Henning, Sr.
The Right Reverend Cornal Garnett Henning, Sr. was the 112th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1992 in Orlando, Florida. He was the son of a parsonage, born in Memphis, Tennessee and educated in the public schools of Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. He received a B. S. Degree from Wilberforce University, a Master of Divinity from Payne Theological Seminary, and completed course work for the Doctorate of Ministry at Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Missouri. Bishop Henning served as pastor of congregations in Tennessee, Kansas, California and Missouri. He has also served as assistant pastor at Greater Allen A.M.E. Church in Dayton, Ohio and First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles, California. During six years as pastor of St. Peter A.M.E. Church in St. Louis, Missouri (1968-1972), the membership increased by more than six hundred fifty members, Parish Partners, an urban-suburban program designed to provide summer employment for youth in a community different from their own, was founded. Rev. Henning also served as Executive Director of Block Partnership, a multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-cultural program devised to break down barriers to the economic, educational and political empowerment of Blacks.
While pastor of Ward A.M.E. Church (1972-1980), Bishop Henning served as a member of the Los Angeles Housing Commission (twice as president). Bishop Henning joined with Dr. Henry Mitchell, Bishop Charles Blake and other area ministers in the establishment of The Ecumenical Center for Black Church Studies. He also served in the following positions with SCLC-West; Executive Vice President, President, and Chairman of the Board. He established the Ward Area Redevelopment Department, Inc. (W.A.R.D.), an umbrella corporation to a number of programs, including The William Grant Still Community Music School. At St. Paul A.M.E. Church in St. Louis, Missouri (1980-1992), Bishop Henning and Dr. William Harrison founded St. Paul Saturdays, a Black male mentoring ministry that provided positive experiences for Black males and encouraged their development into strong Black Men. Bishop Henning was a founding member of the St. Louis Clergy Coalition and chairperson of its Political Action Committee. He also organized the St. Louis Superintendent-Clergy Committee to assist in the development of a positive relationship between the School Superintendent, the board of education and the Black community to keep the lines of communication open and constructive.
In 1992, Bishop Henning was elected and consecrated the 112th Bishop of the AME Church and was assigned to the 14th Episcopal District – West Africa, where he served four years. As Bishop of the 14th Episcopal District, he established the C. Garnett Henning, Jr. Memorial High School named in memory of his deceased son and located in Danane’ Cote D’Ivoire. In 1996, in Monrovia, Liberia he founded AME University which has a present enrollment of approximately 4000 students. It is the nation‘s second largest University. He also built Bethel A.M.E. Church in Accra, Ghana at a cost of more than $100,000. In 1996 Bishop Henning was assigned to the 19th Episcopal District – South Africa, where he served until 2000. In 1998, in Johannesburg, he led in the building of a one and one-half million rand annex to the Bishop Harold Senatle Center. He also renovated the R. R. Wright School of Theology in Evaton, South Africa, purchased an Episcopal residence appraised at $700,000, and worked with Bishop Donald G. K. Ming and Bishop Harold Senatle in reopening Wilberforce Institute which had been closed during the apartheid era.
In 2000 Bishop Henning was assigned to the Eighth Episcopal District which is comprised of Mississippi and Louisiana. He reopened the Bonner Campbell School of Religion and retired the debt on the Episcopal Headquarters and Residence in New Orleans, Louisiana. The C. G. Henning Multiplex, was built at the cost of more than a million and a half dollars. In 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, the worst disaster in the history of the United States, Bishop Henning was asked by the church to administrator more than three million dollars, raised by the A.M.E. Church for the restoration of damaged churches, with more than a half million dollars of support going to ministers and members of the district. At the same time, Bishop Henning was appointed to the National Bush-Clinton Katrina fund, by President William “Bill” Clinton, a committee with the responsibility for directing the distribution of more than seventy million dollars to a religious institution in the region. Bishop Henning successfully restored 49 of 51 churches damaged by Katrina and left over one-half million dollars in the Eight District treasury, $350,000 of which was earmarked for the replacement of the Episcopal Headquarters and Residence destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
From 2008-2012, Bishop C. Garnett Henning, Sr., was assigned to the Third Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church which comprises Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. He worked to secure money for needed renovations at Payne Theological Seminary and his Wilberforce University.
Bishop Henning was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and received many awards and honors. Bishop Henning was married to Ernestine Lee Henning and they are the parents of three children, Dr. Carma Love, who resides in California, (Helaine and Garnett, Jr., both deceased), and two grandchildren, Jahbrielle Henning-Rayford and Massiah Garnett Henning. He is the brother of the Right Reverend E. Anne Henning Byfield, the 135th elected and consecrated bishop of the AME Church, Retired Supervisor Yvonne Henning Parks and Dr. Herman W. Henning, Jr.
COUNCIL OF BISHOPS
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Bishop Clement W. Fugh, President
May 15, 2018
“Servant of Christ, well done! Praise be thy new employ; And while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Master’s joy.”
Our hearts are heavy as we report the passing of Bishop Cornal Garnett Henning Sr., the 112th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who transitioned from the Church Militant to the Church Triumphant early Tuesday morning, May 15, 2018, in Los Angeles, CA.
We solicit your prayers for his wife of fifty-two years, former Supervisor Ernestine Henning, who was nearby when he passed; daughter Carmen; grandchildren Janbrielle and Massiah Garnett; siblings Herman Henning, Former Supervisor Yvonne Henning Parks, and Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield; and a host of relatives and friends.
Arrangements are incomplete at this time.
Respectfully,
Clement W. Fugh President
Council of Bishops