Bishop Shirley Stanfill serves as the Senior Pastor of Kingdom Word and Worship Centers and is the Presiding Prelate of Mount Olive International Fellowship of Churches. She is also a member of the College of Bishops and The Kingdom Fellowship Churches.

From unpretentious beginnings of her non-profit organization, House of Help City of Hope, Bishop Stanfill is now a developer, landlord, and executor of real estate acquisitions and has revitalized a conglomerate of properties in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. House of Help City of Hope has been the driving force behind the inspiration and motivation of over 60,000 individuals – helping them to restore, establish, and strengthen themselves back to stable and respectable lives through 24/7 programs that target addiction, relapse prevention and generational homelessness. Bishop Stanfill formed the “From Homeless to Home Ownership Program” that helps transform substance abusers into home owners.

Bishop Stanfill’s work through House of Help City of Hope has been featured in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The New York Post, and Afro-American News.

She earned her Chaplaincy and PhD in Philosophy from Canadian International Chaplaincy University. She was honored by the Bush White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives and is the recipient of many awards, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. “Living the Dream” Award, the Washington Post Humanitarian Award and multiple service recognition resolutions from former Mayors of Washington, D.C.

Bishop Stanfill has been featured extensively on CNN, CBN, Fox News, The 700 Club, The New York Times, C Span, Opportunity Lives with Deion Sanders, The Daily Drum, and The Steve Harvey Radio Segment: Take it To The Streets and hosts her own local weekly broadcasts, Legendary Teachings, and the Bishop Holloway Show.

Bishop Stanfill is a native of the state of New York and is recently married to Pastor Timothy Stanfill October 7, 2017.