MABANK - Connections, a band made up of United Methodist Church ministers and their friends, will resurrect the sounds of the 1970s for Cedar Creek Lake residents in a free concert at Mabank High School Auditorium, Friday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. The Mabank event will be the popular band's first concert for the 2012 season. The band, which was formed from a jam session of Dan Fogelberg songs by six musicians during a clergy retreat, performed in its first concert in 2006. Some 20 musicians will be on stage in Mabank at the "Super Hits of the 1970s, Part II" concert performing songs made famous by Bob Seeger, Jackson Browne, Electric Light Orchestra, Boz Scaggs, Marvin Gaye, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Santana, Joe Walsh, and Lynyrd Skynyrd and others. The concert will be sponsored by the United Methodist Churches of Cedar Creek Lake and surrounding areas, including Becker, Crandall, Terrell, Kemp, Mabank, Aley, Kaufman, Poetry and College Mound. Although the concert is free and open to the public the sponsors hope to raise money for the United Methodist Church's "Imagine No Malaria" campaign, which daily kills thousands of children in South Africa and other parts of the world. Prior to the concert there will be a bake sale hosted by church members. Members of the Aley United Methodist Church sold baked goods at Brookshire's in Seven Points over the weekend to promote the concert and benefit the campaign. Sue Ann Kosydar, a member of the church, said the church's members are excited about the upcoming concert because of the enjoyment it would bring to Cedar Creek Lake residents and the good it would do. "It's going to be a lot of fun," Kosydar said. "And it will be for a good cause." The band's music is consistent with the Christian message, and it avoids lyrics that portray an agnostic, negative view of the world, according to a UMC press release. Mabank Mayor Larry Teague recently proclaimed the week of Jan. 22 in honor of the "Imagine No Malaria" campaign. In 17 concerts and two clergy retreats Connections has helped UMC raise $48,000 for the Committee on Relief and the anti-malaria campaign. The events are billed as family-friendly, safe concerts that are free of smoke, alcohol and bad language.