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Senior Pastor Bishop John A. Wilkinson is an Ordained Elder, Ordained Minister, Teacher, Conference Speaker, Worship Leader, and Minister of Music, who ministers through the gift and power of the Holy Spirit. Bishop John was born and raised in Birmingham England, where he gave his life to the Lord at the early age of eleven years old and was baptized. He received the gift of the Holy Spirit in his early teenage years. In his early college years, he recognized the call to ministry by assisting with the college choir, and held many prayer meeting services with students, while at the same time becoming one of the church worship leaders at his home church Aberdeen St C.O.G.O.P. In the late 80s after completing Music College, Bishop John migrated to the U.S.A. and almost instantly became instrumental at his father’s church singing, ministering, teaching, and training. He transformed and revolutionized many ministries he was involved in and impacted many lives. Bishop John worked alongside other Pastors, Elders, and Ministers, and became a proficient preacher, teacher, and musician. The ministry that had a major impact on his life was New Vision International Ministries, under the leadership of Bishop Derek L. Calhoun, who ordained and confirmed Pastor John as Minister, Elder, and Assistant Pastor.
Bishop John served from 2003 - 2015 in that ministry then moved him and his family to Atlanta, Georgia. After spending over 30 years in Connecticut, and 6 years in Georgia, the Lord revealed to Bishop John Kingdom Connection Ministries and the journey of Kingdom Connection Ministries continues. One of Bishop John’s favorite quotes is “I am the product of God’s skill" (Ephesians 2:10), and one of his favorite scriptures is Psalms 63:3: “For thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee”.
Kingdom Connection Ministries is a vision and movement ordained by God. Bishop John serves alongside his wife Pastor Gillian Plummer Wilkinson. He is very family-oriented as a husband to Gillian Wilkinson for over 31 years, and father of their 3 children: Joshua, Christopher, and Ayanna.
Administrative Pastor Gillian Plummer Wilkinson is a Minister called to ministry by God. She is a native of Birmingham England, where she met her now husband Bishop John Wilkinson in college, and for a few years dated and sang together in the college choir. She is a Pastor, and leader of Kingdom Connection Ministries, Stone Mountain, Georgia. Lady G, or Pastor G as she is affectionately known, accepted the Lord in her teenage years and enjoyed singing, and ministering in song, and teaching Sunday Academy alongside her husband. She has also ministered in the areas of marriage and relationships throughout the years.
Pastor Gillian has the gift of discernment, and the gift of encouragement, she is a gifted psalmist and worship leader. Along with her husband and best friend Bishop John, she was called to Kingdom Connection Ministries to operate at the next level of their destiny as a ministry team. Together they bring biblical wisdom, compassion, integrity, and transparency to the KCM family where the mission is to “build lives for empowerment”.
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Pastor Gillian strives to be an example, and a virtuous woman - she is a woman who is yielded to God in every area of her life. While obligations to ministerial commitments are a priority, Pastor Gillian ensures that her other obligations are well maintained. She works as a Senior Resources Coordinator as well as serves being a devoted wife and loving mother to their three adult children. Pastor Gillian continues to produce excellence in all her ministry opportunities. She has a heart for people and is committed to prayer.
Executive Pastor Patricia A. McCalla was born and raised in the U.K. where at an early age she began teaching young children in Sunday School. It was also there that she started her ministry in music, forming and singing in groups and choirs. She developed a love for the Word of the Lord in her early twenties and it became obvious to those around her that her call was unique to the Body of Christ. Pastor McCalla married and relocated to the United States and is the mother of four children: Christina, Crystal, Niecie, and Jamario, the grandmother of Aiden, DeVaughn, and Jeremiah. Pastor Patricia is no stranger to the cause of Christ; she is a teacher, mentor, motivational speaker, worshipper, counselor, and spiritual mother to many. Her biblical teachings are life-changing and her style is practical and relevant, with an electrifying and candid approach to teaching the Word of God. She exemplifies effective Christian leadership and shows an uncanny ability to develop leaders, women specifically. She operates in the spirit of discernment with the spiritual sensitivity and understanding of a Mother in the faith. You will hear her frequently say: ‘All is well; and what’s not, will be!’ She believes the people of God should be Fed by the Word of God, Led by the Spirit of God, and Walk in the Love of God to bring the Kingdom of God to the earth.
Pastor McCalla was the Co-pastor of Liberty Worship Center in Stone Mountain, GA for more than 20 years. For 15 years, she led a group of women in community chapel service at the Atlanta Union Mission in Atlanta, GA. For over ten years, she led a team of women’s ministry directors, providing varying aspects of presentation coaching, multicultural awareness, biblical relativity, and leadership training. Pastor Patricia studied at Ministry International Institute out of Jacksboro, TN, and Bible Training Institute Leadership Development in the Church of God of Prophecy. In 2012, she was nominated for the Esther Award from the ‘National Coalition of Women in Ministry’ Atlanta Chapter (an award that honors Christian women laboring in ministry and impacting the community). In 2018, she received the Woman of Influence Award for Outstanding Service for the Kingdom of God. She most recently attended DMS Leadership School out of Chicago, IL, and is working on another Degree in Biblical Studies. She has traveled nationally and internationally teaching both men and women how to “be strong in the Lord and in the power of HIS might”. Pastor Patricia is both an Angel and a Warrior.
Archbishop Jason E. Owen was born in Georgetown, Guyana, South America, and migrated to Brooklyn, New York. He earned an Associate in Pre-Physical Therapy from Kingsborough Community College, and also enrolled within the Brooklyn College/Mount Sinai Medical Center MD/Ph.D. Program in Neurological Research Medicine. He earned a Master of Religious Education, a Master of Theology, and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from Lighthouse Christian College, Beebe, Arkansas.
Archbishop Owen served as Community Liaison of the ACCESS Diversity Initiatives within the VITAS Healthcare Atlanta, Georgia Hospice Program, as Community Partnerships Co-Facilitator on The Healthy Brain Initiative Coalition of the Atlanta, Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, Chair on the Executive Board of Caregiver’s HOPE Atlanta, Georgia.
He also served on the Executive Board of the Conyers, Georgia-headquartered International Alliance of Missionary Minded Churches, Inc. as Executive Treasurer, the National Executive Board of the Decatur, Georgia headquartered International Federation of Christian Churches and Ministries, Inc. as Chair of the Apostolic Council Southeastern Regional Executive Board as Facilities Director.
Served as a member of the Concerned Black Clergy of Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, Inc. where he served on the Health Committee and as the Academic Dean of both Vision Christian Campus,
Lawrenceville, Georgia, and Kingdom International Bible Institute in Conyers, Georgia.
Currently, as a Hospice Consultant and Contractor, he serves as both Spiritual Care and Bereavement Care Coordinator of the Dynamic Hospice Decatur, Georgia Program, he also serves as Chair Emeritus of the Board of Directors of Clinical Research Pathways, and as President Emeritus of the Community Advisory Board of the Morehouse School of Medicine Clinical Research Center both in Atlanta, Georgia.
He furthermore serves The Powder Springs, Georgia Gathering of The Eagles International College of Apostles and Bishops Congress, Inc. Broken Vessel Alliance International Fellowship of Ministries and Churches, Inc. as Dean of Christian Education and Apostolic and Episcopal Advisor; respectively, the Denver, Colorado College of Archbishops, Inc. as Ecumenical Patriarch.
He is the Ecumenical Patriarch, Metropolitan Archbishop and International Presiding Prelate of the
Snellville, Georgia headquartered Biblical Deliverance Ministries, Inc. Archbishop Owen with his late wife, Janine A. Owen who served as Senior Pastor of Snellville Biblical Deliverance Center, Inc. in Snellville, GA has three adult sons and three daughters-in-law, and with his current wife Phyllis N. Dowell-Owen and their one adult son, live in Atlanta, GA. They also have two grandsons and three granddaughters.