The Rev. Kevin Moore.

On Sunday, Aug. 25, at 3:30 p.m., Grant Chapel AME Church will be hosting its Annual Men & Women’s Day Celebration. The Theme for this year’s celebration is “Be the Change You Want to See in the Church…Break the Generation Curse!”

There will be two speakers for this great celebration. The first speaker will be Susie Magwood-Thomas, the center supervisor at Culbertson Head Start and Moultrie City Council Woman for District 1, Post 2. She is also a facilitator at Jacksonville Theological Seminary and Revelation Message Bible College in Jacksonville, Fla. Her work history includes being a Miami public school teacher. She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. and Pearl Magwood. She is the mother of one daughter and five grandchildren. Thomas is a member of Grant Chapel AME Church.

The second speaker will be the Rev. Kevin T. Moore, pastor of St. Mark AME Church in Thomasville, Ga. He attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Ga., where he received his Bachelor of Science in organizational management and leadership with a concentration in religious studies. Most recently, he completed the three-year Masters of Divinity program at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Ga. — in two years, with honors. In May 2011, he was ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  

Moore was honored in 2008 to serve as the keynote speaker for the NAACP Anniversary, at Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., in South Carolina. The next year, he was invited to return to his alma mater and serve as the convocation speaker at Morris Brown College.

He is married to the Rev. Conitras M. Houston Moore. He is a third generational preacher and believes that “the word of God has life changing power.”

The music will be rendered by a group of young high school friends from different local churches, who decided to form a choir to minister through their voices. They are known as the Triumphal Praise and have been singing throughout the community and nearby cities for almost two years. A praise dance will be performed by Sis. Joanna Lee.

The Rev. Roosevelt Hardy of Metcalf, Ga. is the pastor.