Elder Stacey attended the Akron Public School system as an honor student graduating from Akron Central Hower in 1981. He excelled in basketball and won many awards, the most prestigious was winning a state championship on the 1980 team with a record of 28-0. Elder Stacey attended Cuyahoga Community College and earned Conference Freshmen of the Year award while playing on a team that went to NJCAA tournament. He continued his education at the University of Akron majoring in Business Administration and Management.

Being a people person he showed great leadership qualities, and he never met a stranger. He had a heart for people and always felt EVERYONE was somehow a member of his family. His popularity in the community led him on many unpleasant journeys. Though God was preparing him with real-life experiences, he always kept a respect for God (being raised to fear the Lord).

Elder Stacey saw the light in March 1994 at Akron General Hospital and confessed Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. The anointing would come over him at just merely testifying. He was ordained as a Deacon at The House of Prayer For All People Church and learned the operations of the church, and structure of leadership under the leadership of Bishop Robert Bell. After 4 1/2 years God called him into the ministry. He shadowed Bishop Bell and was taught the protocol of a minister with one on one sessions along with assistance from Elder and Evangelist Jenkins and Evangelist Lately Johnson to learn and observe the calling. He completed OCEA courses at the Chapel as well as Harvest Christian Center of Columbus, Ohio.

Elder Stacey is a Production Manager in Cleveland, Ohio and the proud husband to Lynnette Jenkins for over 19 years. He has three children whom he adores, Ashley, Bryson, and Marten as well as twin grandsons, Dillon and Denim.

Upon ordination as a licensed minister of the gospel and after his appointment as Pastor, Elder Stacey kept that zeal and excitement for life, for all people, but most of all, for the Lord. "But you are a chose generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of the darkness into the marvelous light".

First Lady Lynette Jenkins

Sis. Lynnette Jenkins was born an only child to the late Annette Scrivens and raised by her late maternal grandparents, William and Ollie Scrivens. Upon which she was reared, nurtured and spiritually guided by friend, “mother” (in-law), and her “Naomi”, Evangelist Greta Jenkins for the past 22 years.

A life long Ohioan, Sis. Lynnette, affectionately known as Sis.Lennie, attended the University of Cincinnati for two years studying in Computer Science and the University of Akron in the same field. She holds a career with the regional newspaper, The Akron Beacon Journal, as a religious advertising correspondent. She also operates her home-based business, Studio9, specializing in desktop publishing and graphic design. She is a certified Notary Public with the State of Ohio and has held memberships with the United Way, Red Cross, and Girl Scouts of America. She is currently a member of the SBA-Small Business Association, Akron Reads Literacy Program, Akron Urban League, and NAACP – WIN, Women in NAACP.

Sis. Lennie became a member of the House of Prayer For All People Church under the leadership of the late Bishop Robert D. Bell, Sr. and direction of her late spiritual father, Elder Madison Jenkins, Sr. in 1985. She has held the position on the Missionary Board over the course of 12 years as recording secretary, donated several hours with the Regional Food Bank.

Sis. Lennie gave her first sermonette in August of 2007 emphasizing on “The Favor, Promises and Blessings of God”, and later was appointed an associate minister with HOPFAP. While under the tutelage of Evangelist Jenkins, and anticipating further studies in Scofield Ministries, the Lord has envisioned her with the birth of Zion Ministries, a women’s ministry committed to Streamlining the Connection between Women and Christ.

Married to Pastor R. Stacey Jenkins for 19 years she is the mother of three, Ashley Nicole, Bryson Adair, and Marten Stacey as well as proud grandmother to twin grandsons, Dillon Stacey and Denim Rashaun.

Sis. Lennie has always had a passion and energy for life and people in general. She knows the importance of her role not only as a godly woman but to hold her stance and purpose for the kingdom – to be holy…”for holiness without no man shall see God”. .