Kelley Chapel UMC Decatur GA
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Kelley Chapel United Methodist Church’s Mission & Purpose
Our Motto God In Action!
Our Purpose Love God Totally and Love Neighbor as Self!
OUR VISION
Magnifying God by bringing people into Membership, developing spiritual Maturity in all people, and equipping everyone for Ministry and Mission.
Growing the church of our Lord and Savior by promoting love, spiritual nurturing through witnessing, worship, praising, preaching the Word, teaching the Word, praying, fellowship and outreach thus fostering total commitment to God.
Offering the community Christ through assisting and educating the community in spiritual, political, economic, health, general awareness, safety and welfare issues.
Developing the total youth and child spritually, academically, mentally, morally for the future and urging young minds to follow Christ.
Giving love, gifts of tithes and offering, time, service, presence, participation, talents and resources until our Mission of making disciples in complete and God’s blessings upon us is magnified.
Our Motto God In Action!
Our Purpose Love God Totally and Love Neighbor as Self!
OUR VISION
Magnifying God by bringing people into Membership, developing spiritual Maturity in all people, and equipping everyone for Ministry and Mission.
Growing the church of our Lord and Savior by promoting love, spiritual nurturing through witnessing, worship, praising, preaching the Word, teaching the Word, praying, fellowship and outreach thus fostering total commitment to God.
Offering the community Christ through assisting and educating the community in spiritual, political, economic, health, general awareness, safety and welfare issues.
Developing the total youth and child spritually, academically, mentally, morally for the future and urging young minds to follow Christ.
Giving love, gifts of tithes and offering, time, service, presence, participation, talents and resources until our Mission of making disciples in complete and God’s blessings upon us is magnified.
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Rev Dr Yvette Denise Massey
Pastor-in-Charge
3411 Kelley Chapel Road
Decatur,
GA
30034-6223
United States
Phone: 770-987-2523
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North Georgia Conference
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Rev Dr Yvette Denise Massey
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When Yvette D. Massey was licensed into the gospel ministry in 1997, she had already earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Clemson University and was ministering as a registered nurse. However, she sought to minister in a more holistic manner, so she entered the Morehouse School of Religion of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia. There she was involved in various student organizations, including the Morehouse School of Religion Baptist Fellowship, and the International Society of Theta Phi, a theological honor society, of which she soon became president. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow during her seminary years and in 2000 she graduated with a Master of Divinity.
In 2001 Dr. Massey was ordained at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, Pendleton, S.C., and in June of 2005, she was ordained an Elder in full connection in the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church. She has participated on the following conference committees: The Council on Finance and Administration (Secretary), History and Archives, The United Methodist Children’s Home (Trustee) and most recently the Board of Ordained Ministry. Currently she is the Chair of the Order of Elders. District activities include the District Committee on Superintendence and District Committee on Finance and Administration. She also served as the president of the North Georgia Conference Black Clergy Women’s Organization. Currently Rev. Massey serves as the President of the National Black Clergy Women of The United Methodist Church.
Dr. Massey was previously the Senior Associate Pastor at Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also served as the first woman Senior Pastor of Warren Memorial United Methodist Church (Atlanta, Georgia), Red Oak United Methodist Church (Stockbridge, Georgia) and the historic Central United Methodist Church (Atlanta, Georgia); the former pastorate of the Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery. She has most recently served as Associate Director of the Center for Congregational Excellence in the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church. a passion for the people of God, and her mission is to reach the outcast for Christ.
Dr. Massey is a proud member of The Atlanta Suburban Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma, Theta, Inc. She has written commentary for the African American Online Lectionary and has had a sermon, “The Deciding Vote,” published in The African American Pulpit. She is also the recipient of many honors and awards. Dr. Massey has hosted her own television talk show, entitled “Bible Talk,” which aired on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters (AIB) and she is a much sought-after preacher and teacher.
Currently she serves as the first woman pastor of Kelley Chapel United Methodist church in Decatur, Georgia, another historical first. She enjoys serving the church and believes that parish ministry and community ministry go hand in hand. Having successfully completed her doctoral studies and defended her thesis, “The Impact of Preaching on Church Growth,” she graduated May 21, 2020 from Garret Evangelical-Theological Seminary with a Doctor of Ministry. Dr. Massey is the proud aunt of her “seven heart beats,” her nephews Marqell, Cory, Franklin, Jacob, Matthew and her nieces Katlin and Justice. She gives God thanks and praise for her blessing and greatest joy, her daughter, Yeremiah Massey.
In 2001 Dr. Massey was ordained at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, Pendleton, S.C., and in June of 2005, she was ordained an Elder in full connection in the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church. She has participated on the following conference committees: The Council on Finance and Administration (Secretary), History and Archives, The United Methodist Children’s Home (Trustee) and most recently the Board of Ordained Ministry. Currently she is the Chair of the Order of Elders. District activities include the District Committee on Superintendence and District Committee on Finance and Administration. She also served as the president of the North Georgia Conference Black Clergy Women’s Organization. Currently Rev. Massey serves as the President of the National Black Clergy Women of The United Methodist Church.
Dr. Massey was previously the Senior Associate Pastor at Cascade United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also served as the first woman Senior Pastor of Warren Memorial United Methodist Church (Atlanta, Georgia), Red Oak United Methodist Church (Stockbridge, Georgia) and the historic Central United Methodist Church (Atlanta, Georgia); the former pastorate of the Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery. She has most recently served as Associate Director of the Center for Congregational Excellence in the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church. a passion for the people of God, and her mission is to reach the outcast for Christ.
Dr. Massey is a proud member of The Atlanta Suburban Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma, Theta, Inc. She has written commentary for the African American Online Lectionary and has had a sermon, “The Deciding Vote,” published in The African American Pulpit. She is also the recipient of many honors and awards. Dr. Massey has hosted her own television talk show, entitled “Bible Talk,” which aired on Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters (AIB) and she is a much sought-after preacher and teacher.
Currently she serves as the first woman pastor of Kelley Chapel United Methodist church in Decatur, Georgia, another historical first. She enjoys serving the church and believes that parish ministry and community ministry go hand in hand. Having successfully completed her doctoral studies and defended her thesis, “The Impact of Preaching on Church Growth,” she graduated May 21, 2020 from Garret Evangelical-Theological Seminary with a Doctor of Ministry. Dr. Massey is the proud aunt of her “seven heart beats,” her nephews Marqell, Cory, Franklin, Jacob, Matthew and her nieces Katlin and Justice. She gives God thanks and praise for her blessing and greatest joy, her daughter, Yeremiah Massey.
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3411 Kelley Chapel Road
Decatur, GA
30034-6223
Decatur, GA
30034-6223
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Kelley Chapel UMC Service Times
Sunday Service Times
Sundays:
9:00 Sunday School
10:30 Worship Service In-Person or YouTube
Mondays:
6:30 Prayer Warriors
Tuesdays:
6:30 Men’s Bible Study
Wednesdays:
12:00 Noonday Bible Study
6:30 Bible Study
Kelley Chapel UMC service times last updated on the 15th of July, 2024
Sundays:
9:00 Sunday School
10:30 Worship Service In-Person or YouTube
Mondays:
6:30 Prayer Warriors
Tuesdays:
6:30 Men’s Bible Study
Wednesdays:
12:00 Noonday Bible Study
6:30 Bible Study
Kelley Chapel UMC service times last updated on the 15th of July, 2024
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Please don't worry about what you'll wear to church, for we truly believe people should come to God as they are. You don't need to dress up. Once you walk in the doors, you'll see that the congregation has all types of people in all kinds of dress.
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Kelley Chapel UMC History
Kelley Chapel Church History
120 Years – 1898-2018
The Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was organized at the church’s General Conference of 1830. The members met for the first time in Macon, Georgia in 1831. Within a few years, the church began to struggle with the issue of slavery. Unable to reach an agreement, the church divided in 1844. The slave-holding states formed the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS).
Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me.”
In 1866, the Georgia Conference of the MECS was divided into the North and South Georgia Conferences. After much debate, the conference voted for a dividing line that ran generally east and west and slightly north of Macon.
The North Georgia Conference grew rapidly. By 1875 it had 58,500 members and by 1900 approximately 908, 600 members. This period of the North Georgia Conference gave birth to Kelley’s Chapel Methodist Church. On November 22, 1898, Kelley’s Chapel a dream of Mr. James Thomas Kelley became a reality. Mr. Kelley and his neighbors thought that a church should be constructed in the area and they built it on the site where the present Cobb Fellowship Hall is located. The church, at that time, was a white weatherboard building about the same size as the Cobb Fellowship Hall. During a conference of religious leaders, relative to the forming of a new church, Mr. Kelley agreed to donate the land and a sum of money for the building. After much consideration, the church was named in honor of Mr. James T. Kelley, thus the name, “Kelley’s Chapel.”
When the church was organized, it was member of the denomination known as Methodist Protestant and remained that way until it merged with the “Methodist Episcopal” Church in 1939. Besides Mr. James T. Kelley the original trustees of the church included Mr. Dave McWilliams, Mr. Bill McWilliams, and Mr. T. L. Bankston.
The original church structure burned on Sunday, March 16, 1924 when a fire erupted at about 11:00 am in the ceiling of the church from the pot-bellied stove that was used for heating purposes. No fire-fighting equipment was available at that time and efforts were made to put the fire out by carrying buckets of water from nearby wells. The church was destroyed. Later that same day, a group of members met at the home of Mrs. Claude T. Cobb, daughter of Mr. James T. Kelly to discuss the loss. It was decided at that time to rebuild the church immediately. A building committee was formed, and construction was begun a few days thereafter. One month later, with only one “preaching” service missed the new chapel had been completed and was ready for worship.
In 1938, the MECS united with the MEC and the Methodist Protestant Church to form the Methodist Church and Kelley’s Chapel became Kelley’s Chapel Methodist Church.
In 1954, church school rooms were added to the sanctuary. The parsonage, which is the house at 3364 Kelley Chapel Road, was completed in 1961. In 1963, the church office building was constructed, and additional rooms were added to the sanctuary. The Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1968 to become the United Methodist Church. Kelley’s Chapel emerged into its present denominational name “Kelley’s Chapel United Methodist Church.”
In 1970, the new sanctuary, where we now worship was completed. In 1975, due to increasing membership, additional wing structures were added to the church and the Family Life Center was constructed. In 1978, the church purchased the present parsonage located at 4225 Port Chester Way in the Kings Row Subdivision.
120 Years – 1898-2018
The Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was organized at the church’s General Conference of 1830. The members met for the first time in Macon, Georgia in 1831. Within a few years, the church began to struggle with the issue of slavery. Unable to reach an agreement, the church divided in 1844. The slave-holding states formed the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS).
Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me.”
In 1866, the Georgia Conference of the MECS was divided into the North and South Georgia Conferences. After much debate, the conference voted for a dividing line that ran generally east and west and slightly north of Macon.
The North Georgia Conference grew rapidly. By 1875 it had 58,500 members and by 1900 approximately 908, 600 members. This period of the North Georgia Conference gave birth to Kelley’s Chapel Methodist Church. On November 22, 1898, Kelley’s Chapel a dream of Mr. James Thomas Kelley became a reality. Mr. Kelley and his neighbors thought that a church should be constructed in the area and they built it on the site where the present Cobb Fellowship Hall is located. The church, at that time, was a white weatherboard building about the same size as the Cobb Fellowship Hall. During a conference of religious leaders, relative to the forming of a new church, Mr. Kelley agreed to donate the land and a sum of money for the building. After much consideration, the church was named in honor of Mr. James T. Kelley, thus the name, “Kelley’s Chapel.”
The original church structure burned on Sunday, March 16, 1924 when a fire erupted at about 11:00 am in the ceiling of the church from the pot-bellied stove that was used for heating purposes. No fire-fighting equipment was available at that time and efforts were made to put the fire out by carrying buckets of water from nearby wells. The church was destroyed. Later that same day, a group of members met at the home of Mrs. Claude T. Cobb, daughter of Mr. James T. Kelly to discuss the loss. It was decided at that time to rebuild the church immediately. A building committee was formed, and construction was begun a few days thereafter. One month later, with only one “preaching” service missed the new chapel had been completed and was ready for worship.
In 1954, church school rooms were added to the sanctuary. The parsonage, which is the house at 3364 Kelley Chapel Road, was completed in 1961. In 1963, the church office building was constructed, and additional rooms were added to the sanctuary. The Methodist Church merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1968 to become the United Methodist Church. Kelley’s Chapel emerged into its present denominational name “Kelley’s Chapel United Methodist Church.”
In 1970, the new sanctuary, where we now worship was completed. In 1975, due to increasing membership, additional wing structures were added to the church and the Family Life Center was constructed. In 1978, the church purchased the present parsonage located at 4225 Port Chester Way in the Kings Row Subdivision.
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Kelley Chapel UMC listing was last updated on the 15th of July, 2024
