At the close of the Southern California Annual Conference on September 28, the Reverend Dr. Timothy E. Tyler was appointed as the pastor of First AME Church (FAME) in Los Angeles, California, by Bishop Francine A. Brookins. Rev. Tyler previously served as pastor of Denver’s oldest African American Church, Shorter Community African Methodist Episcopal Church. AT FAME, he succeeds Rev. Robert R. Shaw II. Born on January 30, 1964, in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Los Angeles, California, Reverend Tyler is the son of the late Bishop Carolyn E. Tyler Guidry and Mr. Cary Bernard Tyler. Reverend Tyler earned a…