Our Head Pastor
Bishop Lamont R Prysock is the founder and Bishop of Sanctuary of Worship Ministries of Alamance County, North Carolina. In 2021, he was consecrated to the Episcopacy at the Holy Convocation of Global Impact Network in Greenville, NC. He is a native of Hickory, NC and a product of the Burke County Public Schools System. He was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost at an early age in the Glorious Churches of God under the leadership of the late Bishops Herbert L Gardin and John L Hines.
In August 1990, Bishop Prysock attended, and soon thereafter served, under watch care at Mt Zion United Church of God under the leadership of now Bishop-Designate Bernard Curry while studying at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His ministry began on the campus of UNCG while serving as President of the Neo-Black Society Gospel Choir, where he began holding weekly bible studies teaching on the Kingdom of God.
On February 6, 1994, he preached his first sermon at Liberty United Glorious Church of God in Gaston County, North Carolina where Bishop John F Carson was the Pastor. At that time, the Lord led him to join the newly formed Pentecostal Church of Christ-Greensboro, founded by Bishop J D Ellis of Cleveland, Ohio, where Pastor Marian D Hickman had just been assigned the Pastorate and was later consecrated Bishop. Through this church, he was baptized in Cleveland, Ohio at the hands of Overseer Mark Smith and ordained an Elder in the Lord’s church in Baltimore, Maryland at the hands of Bishop Hickman and Bishop Carl H Montgomery.
While serving under Bishop Hickman at what is now Word of Life Pentecostal Church of Christ, Bishop Prysock served as the Pastor of Ministerial and Business Affairs and was employed as the church’s Business Administrator and Office Manager. He was also the Program Administrator for the Next Generation Child Care Program and the Executive Director of R.E.A.C.H. 1 CDC, a non-profit human service organization in Greensboro. Additionally, Bishop Prysock served on the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ Board of Holy Orders under Bishop John Wade, as Provincial Youth Director under Bishops Eric Garnes and Darryl Woodson, and on the Couples Ministry under Bishop Russel Smyre.
In October of 2015, in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the hands of Bishop Hickman and Apostle Darnell Leach, Covering Apostle of the New Beginnings Fellowship, Bishop Prysock was installed as Senior Pastor of Word of Life Sanctuary of Worship in Alamance County. After a series of pre-launch gatherings, Sanctuary of Worship had its official launch on November 15 at its new location at 1003 W Main St, Haw River, NC. Several ministries have birthed out of this work, such as the Fellowship of Christian Business Owners, the Center for Prayer and Counseling, and the Servant-Leader Development Institute.
Bishop Prysock is the proud husband of his beautiful wife, Overseer Barbara Prysock. Resulting from that union, he is also the proud “pops” of two, Ashley (Keith) Thompson of Greensboro and Carter Williams of California; and proud Papa P of four: Joshua, Jordan, Peighton, and Kassidy
Anyone who knows Bishop Prysock, knows that he genuinely loves God and God’s people. He is a faithful servant of the Lord and dedicated to the things of God. Bishop Prysock believes we all must present all of our being as a living sacrifice to the Lord, which is our reasonable service. It’s not until then that we can expect to hear Jesus say, “Well done thou good and faithful servant.”
Our Pastor Emeritus
Bishop Marian Hickman having received the work of salvation in 1971 at Bibleway Temple of Prayer, under the pastorate of the late Dr. James E. Nichols, Marian Hickman was called to preach the gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ. In 1976, she was licensed as a Minister and ordained as an Elder in the Lord’s church in August of 1990. Elder Hickman then served as an Assistant Pastor of Pentecostal Church of Christian Cleveland, OH, under the pastorate of Bishop J. Delano Ellis, II. In 1994 she was appointed to the pastorate and relocated to Greensboro, North Carolina, where she began serving as Senior Pastor of Word of Life Pentecostal Church of Christ. In June 2005, Overseer Hickman was consecrated to the Bishopric, by Bishop J. Delano Ellis, II.
Bishop Marian Hickman is President and C.E.O. of R.E.A.C.H. 1 CDC, a community-based organization founded in 1997. Its acronym stands for “Rehabilitating, Educating, and Aiding our Community and Homes One at a time..” She is the Founder and President of P.I.C.(Pastors In Covenant), a dynamic pastors’ and spouses’ ministry and refuge.
Educated at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, Bishop Hickman has also studied with Aenon Bible College, Emerge Ministries, and Vintage Bible College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has faithfully served in the Bible Way Church of our Lord Jesus, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, United Pentecostal Churches of Christ, the Pentecostal Churches of Christ, and New Beginnings Fellowship.
Bishop Marian Hickman is qualified to minister, with excellence, to pastors and leaders of diverse backgrounds. She is called and anointed by God to train and motivate leaders in God’s Kingdom. She loves God and His people and is committed to fulfilling the mandate of God upon her life.
