OUR PASTORS
Pastor Ferando McCormick, son of Bertha and Eugene McCormick, is a native of Parkton, NC. In June 1994, he began his walk with Christ. In April 1995, he joined the US Navy and his first assignment was in Raleigh/Durham, NC where he attended Greater Zion Wall Baptist Church. He was ordained as Deacon in 1995. In 1999 Pastor McCormick’s military orders led him to Seoul, Korea. While residing in Korea, Pastor McCormick felt a greater call of God upon his life to become a Minister of the Gospel. He served under the leadership of Pastor Yvonne Daniels. Upon returning back to NC, still under military orders, Pastor McCormick was ordained as Prophet under the leadership of Bishop Viril M. Myers.
In 2004, Pastor McCormick was ordered to go to the Island of Guam. Under the leadership of Chaplain Raymond Johnson, he served in the capacity of Assistant Pastor at the Gospel Service on Andersen Air Force Base. While serving at the Gospel Service, the attendance of Sunday morning service and Bible Study grew tremendously, to God be the glory.
While on the Island of Guam Pastor started his first Island Wide Men’s Conference which was very successful. He met many Pastors’ and assisted them in their various ministries. Pastor McCormick’s military career ended in December 2006 and he was released with an honorable discharge.
In May 2007, he was ordained as Pastor by Apostle Terry L. Peaks-Cash of Greater Zion Wall House of Miracles and was commissioned to go out and start a work for the Lord. God moved greatly upon Pastor McCormick’s heart and he became founder of the City of Zion Christian Ministry in Lawrenceville, GA. The ministry has since transcended denominational, cultural, and ethnic boundaries.
The call upon his life has positioned him to minister prophetic insight into the lives of God’s people. He has earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and has also studied Theology at Liberty University and Luther Rice Seminary School in Atlanta, GA. Pastor McCormick is married to Co Pastor Tyressa McCormick and they have 3 children 3 grandsons and 1 granddaughter.
Pastor McCormick has a zeal for God’s people to know Him in a greater and more personal way, while living an abundant life in Christ Jesus.
Tyressa K. McCormick is the Assistant-Pastor of City of Zion Christian Ministry, located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, which she co-founded in 2007 with her husband, Pastor Ferando McCormick.
Assistant-Pastor McCormick is a second generation minister and is the youngest daughter of Reverend Ralph and Lola Mangum of Durham, NC.
She received her spiritual training at Greater Zion Wall Baptist Church in Durham under the leadership of Bishop Viril Myers and Apostle Terry Peaks-Cash.
She has a servant’s heart and has faithfully served in almost every capacity of ministry including usher, praise and worship leader, choir director and armor bearer, to name a few, before being promoted by the Lord to a higher calling of ministry. She has served in church leadership for over 19 years.
Along her spiritual journey, God has blessed her with many talents and gifted her in the Prophetic as well as calling her to evangelize, teach and preach. God has used her to deliver the Gospel both nationally and internationally (Korea and Guam).
Assistant-Pastor Tyressa McCormick has a special passion to minister to women who have been broken, abused and battered.
At her home church not only does she serve as the Co-Pastor, but she is the leader of the Women’s Ministry, the facilitator of the minister’s training, a praise team member, a part-time drummer and keyboardist (when needed).
Her motto is centered upon John 9:4 “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
Assistant-Pastor Tyressa McCormick has 3 children, 3 grandsons and 1 granddaughter. She loves the Lord and her desire is to see God’s people saved, delivered, and walking in the liberty and the joy of the Lord.