If you’ve
been anywhere in East Macon, you’ve probably noticed
signs and billboards advertising Connection Fellowship
Ministries and wondered what this ministry is all
about.
Connection Fellowship Ministries is a totally new
experience in worship ministry. Lead by Pastor
Jacson Moody, the ministry meets in the church
previously occupied by
Shurlington
Baptist
Church at
2270
Shurling Drive in
Macon,
Georgia.
Connection Fellowship Ministries is
a large, beautiful church
(All photos by
Photographic Visions by
Tshimpo)
Pastor Moody
believes in building up the church with the outward-in
approach.
In other words, members meet in small groups at
homes in the neighborhood with an individual’s comfort
level in mind, and then worshippers meet each Sunday for
worship at the church building. Pastor Moody is
careful to point out that Connection Fellowship
Ministries is not a church; it’s a ministry.
In 1996,
Pastor Moody was called to ministry; his first church
was St. Mary’s UMC in
Brooklet,
Georgia. If you know
Brooklet, you know that it’s so rural that it has one
caution light.
This first church had four members,
but the building that served as a slave church for
homecoming meetings in the 1800s added 65 people to the
membership rolls in just 90 days. After relocating
to Harper Chapel UMC in Baxley
and experiencing phenomenal growth there, Pastor Moody
came to Joycliff
United
Methodist
Church in
Macon and saw
increased growth there, as well.
Partnered
with House of God Saints in Christ, Pastor Moody and his
followers bought the
Shurlington
Baptist
Church building
and the first Sneak-A-Peek service was on
September
23, 2007. Other of these
services were held on Oct 7,
2007 and
October 21,
2007. However, the
church will launch officially on November 4,
2007 with a
10am and a
4pm worship
service.
Connection
Fellowship Ministries is a multi-cultural group of
worshippers following the Purpose Driven
model in that it strictly adheres to the spiritual
principles in Rick Warren’s popular books, The Purpose Driven
Life and The
Purpose
Driven
Church. In these two
books, Warren presents a 40-day spiritual
journey and presents what he says are God’s five
purposes for human life on Earth.
Pastor Jacson Moody preaches
without the use of a pulpit
(All photos by
Photographic Visions by
Tshimpo)
Although the
service does follow some traditional order, it is
different in significant ways. For example,
there is no choir; there is the Connection Praise
Band. All
parts of the service are intentional; everything
coincides with the message for the day. Each Sunday
features a different theme. All music and
teaching material is displayed, with words and
Scripture, for all in the congregation to see. No one need feel lost
or unsure when attending Connection Fellowship
Ministries.
Connection
Fellowship Ministries has lots of room in their new
building and they intend to put it to good use. An after-school
tutoring program is already in place with the goal of
raising area children’s CRCT and
Georgia
High
School graduation
test scores.
The Connection
Christian
Academy day care
center will be opening in January of 2008 and the
Academy private school by Fall of next year. With a gym
complete with basketball goals, neighborhood kids will
have a safe place to go for recreation. Pastor Moody has five children and has been
married to his lovely wife, Shawon for six years, thus
the Moody’s understand the importance of family and the
guidance that young people need today.
Pastor
Jacson Moody and wife, Shawon
(all photos by
Photographic Visions by
Tshimpo)
Pastor Moody
and his congregation would like to invite any and all to
experience this new ministry. Connection
Fellowship Ministries is connecting you One Family At A
Time.
The ministry meets at the following location and
times:
Connection
Fellowship Ministries
2270
Shurling Drive
Macon,
Georgia
(478)
742-1167
website: www.connectingu.org
Sunday
Worship - 10:00
am
Bible Study
– Wednesdays – 7pm