Dr. Laura M. Thompson has been and is an unquestionable vessel of God. Affirmed by the Father, she is successfully running the course to which He has appointed her. In 1984, Dr. Thompson surrendered to the mantle upon her life and acknowledged the call into the gospel ministry. Today she pastors one of most successful ministries in Sheffield, Alabama. Committed to produce the Spirit of Excellence Open Door Church is truly a house of refuge for the lost and broken.

Dr. Thompson's first covenant with God is to usher a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit, flowing very fluently in the prophetic. Secondly, God has given her a Prophetic mandate to release proverbial truths like firmly embedded nails for the mastering of assemblies. The Father has also crowned her head with wisdom to make her a mother in Zion, because she possesses a travailing anointing to enable the church of the 21st century to rise to its fullest potential.Dr. Laura M. Thompson is indeed a very powerful and anointed woman of God. Her number one goal is to gain one billion souls for the body of Christ and establish a place of refuge for His people.

She also desires to establish and make ready the Church for the Lord's end-time harvest. As she continues to advance the Kingdom, she also wants to be a living pool of Bethesda so that whosoever steps into her presence shall be made whole. She is happily married to Mr. Marvin D. Thompson, she the mother of two adult daughters, and the proud grandmother of four grandsons and two granddaughters. She has a host of spiritual sons and daughters.