About Word of Life COC Church
Pastor Carl E. Thompson
Pastor Carl E. Thompson, Sr. has served the Lord in ministry for over thirty Five years. Twenty Eight of those years have been as a Pastor. His greatest passion is to help shape and mold leaders to serve the Lord’s Church in the end times.


Pastor Carl operates in the realm of the apostolic and is a prophetic voice to the nations. He is an anointed exhorter and teacher of the Word, with the God-given grace to prepare and send forth the five-fold ministry gifts to do the work of the Lord. His ministry has extended to West Africa, the Philippines, and Haiti.
His vision is to see and experience the greatest end-time harvest the world has ever seen!
Pastor Thompson is a graduate of North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, where he received a B.A.Degree in Philosophy. He earned a Masters Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Regional Planning and a Doctorate in Bible and Theology from Faith Christian University of Tampa Florida.
Pastor Mechelle Thompson
Pastor Mechelle Thompson has co-pastured Word of Life Christian Outreach Center with her husband, Carl for the past twenty years. She is a powerful teacher and preacher of the Word of God in her own right, and is a much sought after speaker. Her passion is to minister to the lost and hurting, especially hurting women.

She has blessed multitudes of people over the years, and has allowed the Lord to user her greatly in the ministry of healing and deliverance. Early on in her walk with the Lord, she experienced a clarion call in her life to pray, and has helped to change the lives of many, as an anointed prayer warrior. Her vision is to continually train and develop prayer warriors to intercede on behalf of the Saints, that the Lord’s will may be fulfilled in their lives.
Pastor Mechelle is a graduate of John Wesley College in High Point, NC, where she received a Bacherlors Degree in Business Administration.