Elder Joseph A. Connell, Sr.

 Joseph A. Connell, Sr., JD, PhD. is the son of the late Rev. Joseph N. and Mother Oliva Connell.  He was ordained to ministry over 20 years ago.  The focus of his ministry is teaching God’s word as well as counseling and equipping believers to bring Biblical answers and God’s healing counsel to the hurts and struggles in their lives.  He is married to Cynthia Connell and has four children, twelve grandchildren and Rocky, their Silky Terrier.

Elder Connell holds a Juris Doctor degree in law and practices in the State of New Jersey and the federal courts of New York.  His office is in Mt. Laurel, NJ where advising religious non-profit organizations on their development and internal structuring is a significant part of his work. 

Elder Connell is a highly skilled Biblical counselor and therapist. He holds graduate and doctoral degrees in counseling, psychology and biblical counseling and is board certified as a Christian counselor through the International Board of Christian Counselors of the American Association of Christian Counselors.

Elder Connell has lectured as an adjunct professor in biomedical ethics and law in the graduate college of Mt. St. Vincent in New York using a multidisciplinary approach of law, psychology, clinical medicine and faith.

At New Jerusalem House of God, Elder Connell is the Director of the Sons of NJHOG Men’s Ministry and is a member of the Divine Purpose Drama Ministry.

“THE SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor, and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound.”  Isaiah 61:1 (Amp)