MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Friendship Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of the Rev. Alfred Jones will have its first Youth Conference sponsored by the church youth department on Saturday, May 20, starting at 8 a.m. with breakfast and registration.

The conference is divided into two sessions. The first session, titled “Your Body is a Temple,” will be presented by Lena Myrick of Friendship Baptist Church, Barbara Berry of Mt. Olive Church in Adel, Brad Singletary of Friendship Baptist Church, and Patricia Peaks of Mt. Olive  Church in Adel followed by a testimony and dance by Minister Jessica Mathis.

The second session titled, “What will your POST say about you?” will be presented by Katrell Dorsett of Friendship Baptist Church, Sis. Thais Jones of Strong Tower in Alabama, Minister Deputy Rod Davis, and Pamela Heidelberg of Friendship Baptist Church.

There will be lunch served from noon until 1 p.m. followed by praise and worship led by Chrystal Collins and then the main speaker, the  Rev. Terrence Jones, pastor of Strong Tower, Montgomery, Alabama.

Jones was born Sept. 5, 1981 to Alfred and DaLaonne Jones. He is a native of Norman Park and was raised in a Christian home where he regularly attended church and made a profession of faith at a young age.

He was a former Packer quarterback and received a football scholarship to Tuskegee University where, after being on campus a few weeks, he trusted Christ with his life at the age of 19.

Through intense discipleship for the next four years, his involvement in Campus Outreach as a college student was life-changing, according to a press release from the church. It was with this same organization that he was first called into fulltime ministry.

In 2006, he married a young lady he’d met through Campus Outreach during his college years, the former Thais Redmond. The two continued in campus and church ministry for another year before they sold most of what they owned and moved to California so that Terrence could  attend The Master’s Seminary. In May 2011, he earned his Master of Divinity degree.

During seminary he served as the coordinator for church and urban  ministries at The Master’s College and as a professor at the historic Los Angeles Bible Training School near Watts, Calif.

He and Thais are the parents of five children: Mataya, Sophia, Anani, Terrence, and Malachi.

There will be several churches from the community participating, and the public is invited.

If you need any information please call the church at (229) 8912955.