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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING THE LATE BISHOP CARLIS L. MOODY, SR.
WHEREAS, Bishop Carlis L. Moody, Sr. was born December 16, 1934 to Mr. Booker T. and Geneva Moody, in the city of Tifton, Georgia; and
WHEREAS, as Bishop Moody was married to Mary Alice in September 1955, and their union was blessed with one daughter, Missionary Sideary King, three sons, Pastor Carlis Moody, Jr., Bishop Anthony Moody, Sr., and Minister Jeffrey Moody; and
WHEREAS, Bishop Moody had a total of twelve grandchildren and three great grandchildren and was revered in the community as a father to the fatherless, a mentor, and surrogate parent to many; and
WHEREAS, Bishop Moody accepted the call to preach in July 1946 in the city of Waukegan, Illinois, and was ordained four years later by the late Church of God in Christ (COGIC) Bishop W. M. Roberts. At the age of 16, he established a small church in Waukegan on Market Street and incorporated that congregation into St. James Temple Church of God in Christ in North Chicago, Illinois, where he served as youth pastor and district Sunday School superintendent from 1952 until 1957; and
WHEREAS, in 1956, Mother Sadie Adams and her son Bishop Eugene Adams went to Bishop L. H. Ford and asked him to send Bishop Moody to Evanston, Illinois to open Faith Temple on January 7, 1957. And, since that time, the congregation to grew from six persons to over two hundred families, and over five hundred members; and
WHEREAS, after attending Moody Bible Institute in 1970, Bishop Moody began to minister in over thirty-eight countries; and
WHEREAS, Bishop Moody served as vice president of the Black Ministers Alliance of Evanston for two years. He also served as a member of the Curriculum Council for the Evanston Township High School for one year; and
WHEREAS, in 1975, Bishop Moody was appointed COGIC's International President of the Home and Foreign Missions Department, which reaches into over fifty-seven countries. In that capacity, he headed all m...
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