About Grace Life Center
A people gathered
around the Well.
A Spirit-filled church in Laurel, Maryland — part of Charismatic Renewal Ministries — learning to be with Jesus, become like Him, and carry heaven wherever we go.
Who we are
Not a fence to get inside. A well to gather around.
On the great cattle ranches of the outback, you don’t fence the herd in — you dig a well, and every head turns toward the water on its own. That’s the kind of church we want to be: not a boundary to police, but a people so near to Jesus that others are drawn to Him by the sheer attraction of His life in us. We measure success not in crowds, but in depth of transformation — one life at a time.
The heart of it
Being with Jesus, before doing for Jesus.
We don’t become like Jesus by trying harder. We become like Him by being with Him — the way fruit grows on a branch joined to the vine. You don’t have to clean yourself up, or believe first, to come to the water. You only have to turn toward it.
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28
The story you’re joining
A call sounding for over forty years.
In 1980, in a student prayer meeting in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, a word was spoken that birthed our movement: “Start preparing people for the Great Harvest — people of beaten gold and of quality; teach them what it means to love and to have authority.”
From that prayer room grew Charismatic Renewal Ministries, a family of churches carrying that assignment around the world. Grace Life Center is where it continues today, in Laurel, Maryland — ordinary people being formed to carry heaven into an ordinary week. You’re not joining a program. You’re answering a call.
What we believe
If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus.
Jesus is God’s love made visible — the measure of what God is like and what a human being was meant to be. If it’s in Jesus, it’s in God. Everything we believe hangs on Him.
The Scriptures
The Bible is the inspired, trustworthy Word of God — our final authority for faith and life.
One God, three Persons
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — one God, eternally three, perfect in love.
Jesus Christ
Fully God and fully human; He lived, died for our sins, rose bodily, and will return.
Salvation by grace
We’re saved by grace through faith in Christ alone — never earned, always received.
The Holy Spirit
Every follower is invited to be filled with the Spirit and empowered with His gifts for life and witness.
Healing & the Kingdom
God still heals today, and His kingdom breaks in wherever His people carry His presence.
Leadership
The people who’ll walk with you.
Pastor Okezie Ofoegbu
Senior Pastor
Shepherds Grace Life Center with a passion for forming apprentices of Jesus — people who don’t just admire Him, but live His way.
Our Pastoral Team
Elders & Pastors
A circle of Spirit-filled servants who together yield to the Lordship of Jesus and care for the family.
Disciplers & Leaders
The wider family
Trained companions who walk one-on-one with people through every track, so no one journeys alone.
Whatever brought you here
Come and see for yourself.
Meet the family on a Sunday in Laurel, or begin the journey online today.