Elder Darius Stanley has been preaching since 1996.  He served as a choir director and minister at Living Faith Church of God in Centerville, Indiana. He later served on the ministerial staff and was ordained and licensed in 2002 at the House of Prayer, Love, and Restoration Church located in Richmond, Indiana where his father, Elder Wade Stanley, Sr. was the pastor.

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In 2011, he joined and served as a minister at Mt. Zion A.O.H. Church of God, Dayton, Ohio under the pastorship of the late International/National Presiding Prelate, Bishop John H. Mathews, Jr. He received his ministerial license in 2015 from the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God Incorporated. In 2018, he was ordained as an Elder and was installed as the pastor of Mt. Zion A.O.H. Church of God, Inc. on October 20, 2018 by the International/National Presiding Prelate, Bishop Lawrence Williams.  

 

Pastor Stanley is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and spent his teenage years in Copiague, New York. He graduated from Copiague High School and obtained his Associates of Arts Degree in Liberal Arts from Syracuse University where he played football.  He has been a journeyman electrician for over 20 years.  He is currently enrolled in Fuller University for a Bachelor of Arts of Theology degree.

 

He and his wife, Juerita, have been married 23 years and are the proud parents of one daughter, Veronica, who serves alongside them in ministry.

 

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I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 

Philippians 4:13