From the Heart Church Ministries, Inc. v. Philadelphia-Baltimore Annual Conference

This appeal arises from a dispute involving a local church, From the Heart Church Ministries, Inc. (“From the Heart”), and its founding pastor, Pastor John A. Cherry, on one side, and its former denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (“A.M.E.Zion”), on the other side, over the ownership of real and personal property upon From the Heart’s withdrawal from A.M.E. Zion. This case was previously before the Court of Appeals in From the Heart Church Ministries, Inc. v. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 370 Md. 152, 803 A.2d 548 (2002) (“From the Heart ”), in which case the…