Gatherings & Happenings
What is The COOP?
The COOP is a movement of youth & young adults ministers & ministries from local churches working COOPeratively to produce relevant events & gatherings that focus on The Person & work of Christ and are designed to bring The Body of Christ together in Unity (racially, denominationally etc.), to promote authentic fellowship while reaching the underserved 14yr.-35yr millennial demographic and thus helping take the pressure off the ministers and ministries in the local Delaware Valley Tri-State Region. (Acts 2:46)
Our COOP concerts/gatherings are free for the public and specifically served children, youth & young adults. In our last 3 multi-ethnic millennial COOP events we had a total of 1300 people in attendance. Our 1st concert 2018 featured Jamie Grace & Da T.r.u.t.h., the 2nd in 2018 featured 5 time Dove Award-winning artist KJ52 & Timothy Brindle and the last one Da T.r..u.t.h. If we include our MLK Day service event at Canaan Baptist over 1500 millennials were directly impacted with The Gospel of Jesus Christ and hundreds received training in filmmaking.
Fishermen Ministry Group Inc
Fishermen began as a vision The Lord placed on the heart of a Philadelphia Freestyle Emcee as he was at the Crossroads of life & Christ was calling him to leave the life he knew to follow Him out of the mainstream music industry and into a pathway of CHH which had not been well-traveled. A few guys from Philly with similar backgrounds began fellowshipping together and from there came the Fishermen Fam.
From the beginning, it was always about magnifying Jesus in the Arts, in music, in film, and other arts-based platforms. It was about unorthodox ministry. The passion and drive to reach the people for Christ have always been the fuel that has run FMG.
We started producing our first Christ-centered hip hop album soon after receiving the vision to do this. In 1997 we began working on the CHH album “New Jerusalem” & till this day our commitment to magnify Christ through the arts stands firm.