2025 NCCOGOP STATE CONVENTION
Eastern NC Church of God Conference Center
7107 NC-581
Kenly, NC 27542
7107 NC-581
Kenly, NC 27542
2025 North Carolina State Convention Program
Thursday, July 24
6:30 pm: Prelude Worship
Lori Washburn
Ariaene Villanueva
Diana Hutch
Raleigh State Street Choir
7:00 pm That's My King
Welcome - Duke Stone
Call to Worship: Raleigh State Street Community Choir
Scripture and Prayer - Roy Burton, Stedman
Special Song - Zach & Erin Burkhardt
Drama/Dance Team Presentation
Smithfield - Greater Vision Worship Center
Offering - Rae Sutherland, Charlotte, Redemption Worship Center
Pianist - Tony Robinson
Worship - June Gordon & the NC Worship Team
Message by Bishop Woodroe Thompson, Mid-Atlantic Regional Bishop
Kid's Convention:
Theme: That's My King
Thursday evening 7:00 until service conclusion
Friday morning 9:30 am to 12:00 pm
Friday evening 7:00 until service conclusion
Saturday morning 9:15 am until service conclusion
Ages
Preschool: Ages 4-5 (Must be able to use the restroom without assistance.)
Elementary Age 6-11
Friday, July 25
9:30 am: Call To Worship - Adam Herod, Eden
Scripture & Prayer - Tim Byrd, North Wilkesboro
Special Song - Shearon Miller, Erwin, Zion Temple
Message - Eric Washburn, White Oak Family Worship Center
Special Song - Ralph Rawls, Asheville Family Center
Worship - Adam Herod, Eden
Message - Tymeka Dunn, Raleigh - State Street Community Church
Business Session
Financial Report - Gabriela Santamaria, Director of Finance
North Carolina Board of Directors
Camp Maranatha - Shannon Brewer, State Property Superintendent
Dismissal
12:30 pm: Pastor and Companion Luncheon
The Farm Production Company
215 Batten Road
Selma, NC 27576
(By Reservation Only)
(There will be no General Session on Friday Afternoon)
6:30 pm: Prelude Worship
Brush Arbor Bluegrass Gospel
Tamisha Waden
Eboni Rouse
Mt. Carmel Choir
7:00 pm That's My King
Welcome - Duke Stone
Call To Worship - Mt. Carmel Choir
Scripture & Prayer - LaRod Brown, Raleigh - Abba Worship Center
Special Songs
LaTonya Villanueva, Smithfield - Greater Vision Worship Center
Offering - Jimmy Sutton, Eli Whitney Community Church
Worship - June Gordon & the NC Worship Team
Message by Bishop Tim Coalter, Presiding Bishop of the Church of God of Prophecy
Saturday, July 26
9:00 am: Prelude Worship
Matisha Hamilton, Raleigh - Abba Worship Center
Wake Forest - New Life Choir
9:15 am That's My King
Welcome - Duke Stone
Call To Worship - Wake Forest - New Life Choir
Scripture & Prayer - Dean Dixon, Ghio
Children’s Presentation - Amy Morgan, State Children's Ministries Director
Recognition of Deceased Ministers
Recognition of Ordained Ministers
Recognition of Convention Staff
Special Song - Vonnie Gilmer
Worship - June Gordon & the NC Worship Team
Message by Duke Stone, North Carolina State Bishop
Recognition of Retiring Ministers
Affirmation of North Carolina Appointees
Dismissal of Convention
Nursery: A mother's room is available next door in the gymnasium. Ask an usher or greeter for directions.
Please note that these areas are unstaffed and should be used only for babies or young toddlers.
Thursday, July 24
6:30 pm: Prelude Worship
Lori Washburn
Ariaene Villanueva
Diana Hutch
Raleigh State Street Choir
7:00 pm That's My King
Welcome - Duke Stone
Call to Worship: Raleigh State Street Community Choir
Scripture and Prayer - Roy Burton, Stedman
Special Song - Zach & Erin Burkhardt
Drama/Dance Team Presentation
Smithfield - Greater Vision Worship Center
Offering - Rae Sutherland, Charlotte, Redemption Worship Center
Pianist - Tony Robinson
Worship - June Gordon & the NC Worship Team
Message by Bishop Woodroe Thompson, Mid-Atlantic Regional Bishop
Kid's Convention:
Theme: That's My King
Thursday evening 7:00 until service conclusion
Friday morning 9:30 am to 12:00 pm
Friday evening 7:00 until service conclusion
Saturday morning 9:15 am until service conclusion
Ages
Preschool: Ages 4-5 (Must be able to use the restroom without assistance.)
Elementary Age 6-11
Friday, July 25
9:30 am: Call To Worship - Adam Herod, Eden
Scripture & Prayer - Tim Byrd, North Wilkesboro
Special Song - Shearon Miller, Erwin, Zion Temple
Message - Eric Washburn, White Oak Family Worship Center
Special Song - Ralph Rawls, Asheville Family Center
Worship - Adam Herod, Eden
Message - Tymeka Dunn, Raleigh - State Street Community Church
Business Session
Financial Report - Gabriela Santamaria, Director of Finance
North Carolina Board of Directors
Camp Maranatha - Shannon Brewer, State Property Superintendent
Dismissal
12:30 pm: Pastor and Companion Luncheon
The Farm Production Company
215 Batten Road
Selma, NC 27576
(By Reservation Only)
(There will be no General Session on Friday Afternoon)
6:30 pm: Prelude Worship
Brush Arbor Bluegrass Gospel
Tamisha Waden
Eboni Rouse
Mt. Carmel Choir
7:00 pm That's My King
Welcome - Duke Stone
Call To Worship - Mt. Carmel Choir
Scripture & Prayer - LaRod Brown, Raleigh - Abba Worship Center
Special Songs
LaTonya Villanueva, Smithfield - Greater Vision Worship Center
Offering - Jimmy Sutton, Eli Whitney Community Church
Worship - June Gordon & the NC Worship Team
Message by Bishop Tim Coalter, Presiding Bishop of the Church of God of Prophecy
Saturday, July 26
9:00 am: Prelude Worship
Matisha Hamilton, Raleigh - Abba Worship Center
Wake Forest - New Life Choir
9:15 am That's My King
Welcome - Duke Stone
Call To Worship - Wake Forest - New Life Choir
Scripture & Prayer - Dean Dixon, Ghio
Children’s Presentation - Amy Morgan, State Children's Ministries Director
Recognition of Deceased Ministers
Recognition of Ordained Ministers
Recognition of Convention Staff
Special Song - Vonnie Gilmer
Worship - June Gordon & the NC Worship Team
Message by Duke Stone, North Carolina State Bishop
Recognition of Retiring Ministers
Affirmation of North Carolina Appointees
Dismissal of Convention
Nursery: A mother's room is available next door in the gymnasium. Ask an usher or greeter for directions.
Please note that these areas are unstaffed and should be used only for babies or young toddlers.
Convention Moderator and Special Guests
Duke and his wife Shirlene serve as the state Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in North Carolina. Duke and Shirlene also served as National Evangelists for the International Offices of the Churches of God of Prophecy and held pastorates in Indiana, Florida, and Tennessee. They also served as the Regional Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in the Magnolia Region prior to their appointment to North Carolina.
Duke has a Master of Education degree from the University of Tennessee. He was the founder and Head of School for Hamilton Heights Christian Academy, a fully accredited high school. The school has students enrolled from the greater Chattanooga area and over 180 students from 30 different nations from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. For over thirty years, Duke wrote high school and collegiate literature for the One Accord educational curriculum. He has authored two Bible studies for SpiritMatters curriculum on the life of Moses and the life of Jonah. He is the author of two books, The Extraordinary Ordinary: A 90-Day Devotional and If The Tears Are Real: A Fresh Look At The Resurrection of Lazarus.
Duke and Shirlene have three grown children: Michael and his wife, Ceren; Krystal and her husband, Jason; and Stephen, and his wife, Caitlyn. They have nine grandchildren.
Duke has a Master of Education degree from the University of Tennessee. He was the founder and Head of School for Hamilton Heights Christian Academy, a fully accredited high school. The school has students enrolled from the greater Chattanooga area and over 180 students from 30 different nations from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. For over thirty years, Duke wrote high school and collegiate literature for the One Accord educational curriculum. He has authored two Bible studies for SpiritMatters curriculum on the life of Moses and the life of Jonah. He is the author of two books, The Extraordinary Ordinary: A 90-Day Devotional and If The Tears Are Real: A Fresh Look At The Resurrection of Lazarus.
Duke and Shirlene have three grown children: Michael and his wife, Ceren; Krystal and her husband, Jason; and Stephen, and his wife, Caitlyn. They have nine grandchildren.
Bishop Timothy D. Coalter came to Christ at the age of eight years old and joined the Church of God of Prophecy the following year in 1969. Ten years later, after accepting his call to the ministry, Bishop Coalter became a licensed minister with the Church in 1979. In the fall of the same year, as newlyweds, he and his wife Kelly began serving under general Church appointment, as national evangelists. After this two-year appointment, he served as a state youth director (Ohio) as well as began twenty-eight years of pastoral ministry. His pastoral service includes pastorates in Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. Bishop Coalter was ordained as a bishop of the Church in 1991.
He was appointed as the state bishop of South Carolina in 2009 and continued serving in that role until September 2014 at which time he was recommended by his peers and selected by the international presbytery as the general presbyter of North America. It was at this point that he and Kelly relocated to Cleveland, Tennessee. In 2022, Bishop Coalter was selected and accepted, in one accord, to serve as presiding bishop at the 101st International Assembly.
Throughout his ministry, Bishop Coalter has served the Church on various state and international committees. Additionally, he also served on the executive committee for the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA) for 10 years.
Bishop Coalter received his Master of Arts in Church Ministries with a concentration in Ministry Leadership from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in 2011 and was recognized as the institution’s Alumnus of the Year in 2023.
He and his beloved wife, Kelly, shared 45 years of marriage before she went home to be with the Lord in February 2025. They are blessed with three children and eight grandchildren.
He was appointed as the state bishop of South Carolina in 2009 and continued serving in that role until September 2014 at which time he was recommended by his peers and selected by the international presbytery as the general presbyter of North America. It was at this point that he and Kelly relocated to Cleveland, Tennessee. In 2022, Bishop Coalter was selected and accepted, in one accord, to serve as presiding bishop at the 101st International Assembly.
Throughout his ministry, Bishop Coalter has served the Church on various state and international committees. Additionally, he also served on the executive committee for the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA) for 10 years.
Bishop Coalter received his Master of Arts in Church Ministries with a concentration in Ministry Leadership from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in 2011 and was recognized as the institution’s Alumnus of the Year in 2023.
He and his beloved wife, Kelly, shared 45 years of marriage before she went home to be with the Lord in February 2025. They are blessed with three children and eight grandchildren.
Woodroe W. Thompson is the Regional Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in the Mid-Atlantic Region—which includes Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, and the Delmarva Peninsula.
With experience ranging from Youth to Pastoral Ministry, the graduate of Tyndale University and Seminary (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) has been involved in ministry for more than three decades, and holds a Master of Divinity degree.
He served twelve (12) years as National Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in Eastern Canada and previously served eighteen (18) years as Senior Pastor for North Park Worship Centre in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Bishop Thompson has served and continues to serve in many other areas of ministry, including television ministry— most recently as Director, Executive Producer and Host of Let’s Talk with Woodroe Thompson.
For the past 41 years, he has been married to Pauline Thompson. They share two (2) grown sons, Christopher, and Adrian, along with daughter-in-law, Claudia Thompson. They have four beautiful grand-daughters, Mya, Tasian, and Milania and Mahrye.
Woodroe loves movies, table tennis, and golf. His desire is to glorify God by serving others with love and humility. He and his wife currently reside in Newark, Delaware USA.
With experience ranging from Youth to Pastoral Ministry, the graduate of Tyndale University and Seminary (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) has been involved in ministry for more than three decades, and holds a Master of Divinity degree.
He served twelve (12) years as National Bishop for the Church of God of Prophecy in Eastern Canada and previously served eighteen (18) years as Senior Pastor for North Park Worship Centre in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
Bishop Thompson has served and continues to serve in many other areas of ministry, including television ministry— most recently as Director, Executive Producer and Host of Let’s Talk with Woodroe Thompson.
For the past 41 years, he has been married to Pauline Thompson. They share two (2) grown sons, Christopher, and Adrian, along with daughter-in-law, Claudia Thompson. They have four beautiful grand-daughters, Mya, Tasian, and Milania and Mahrye.
Woodroe loves movies, table tennis, and golf. His desire is to glorify God by serving others with love and humility. He and his wife currently reside in Newark, Delaware USA.
June Gordon and her husband, Robert are certainly no strangers to North Carolina, she having led worship at our Sister-2-Sister Conferences. June Gordon is a native of Bronx, New York, and has been involved in the music ministry in the Church of God of Prophecy for over 35 years. During that span, June has led worship at numerous local, state, national, and international conferences and retreats, including the last two International Assemblies of the Church of God of Prophecy. June is also the former director of the New England Regional Choir. June and Robert have three children, Brian, Brittany, and Braiden.
