Darlene Bishop made a commitment to Christ at fourteen years of age. At that time she felt the call of God on her life and at seventeen she married her sweetheart, Lawrence Bishop. When they married, Lawrence was a very spiritual young man and Darlene thought someday he would become a preacher and she would be a preachers wife. But not long after they married, Lawrence became consumed by his quarter horse business and began to be very successful. Soon, church took a back seat to business and Darlene found herself just taking her children to church. Being that Darlene was raised so poor, with business booming, she began to try to fill the void inside of her with shopping. As she has told many times, she bought 2 Cadillacs and 18 fur coats (one for each member of her family) in one year. Finally, one day she came in from a shopping excursion and as she pulled out all the dresses to show her eldest daughter, Jana pointed to one and stated, "Mom you already have that dress." Sure of herself, she replied, "Oh, no I don't." So Jana led her upstairs to her closet and dug the dress out from the collection of many only for Darlene to find that in fact she did already have one of the dresses hanging there with the tags still attached. At this, she realized it was not working. The big house, the diamonds, fur coats, collections of designer clothes, none it was filling the emptiness residing in her inner most being. She threw herself on the floor sobbing and declared, "Lord, I want more of you! I don't care what Lawrence is doing I just want you. And I'm going to seek you until I find my true place in the kingdom." From then on, instead of going shopping Darlene would delve into the Word of God.

While Lawrence was away at horse sales, she would lock herself in the bedroom on weekends to study. She just couldn't get enough of God. Before long, the Lord started giving her sermons. She would feverously right them down and preach to her only audience, the grand father clock at the foot of her staircase. In the beginning she would fuss at Lawrence for being out of town all the time on business, never being home to go to church with them. Of course he insisted he was doing all this for her and the kids. Eventually, she realized that complaining all the time was not going to get him to change but she knew what would. It had become her life; PRAYER. As she began to intercede for Lawrence, it didn't take long before he had a "Demascus Road" experience and rightfully took his place as the hight priest of their home. They began working in the church together and although Lawrence never aspired to be, he eventually became the Pastor of their little church. It wasn't long after, that Darlene began preaching those sermons God had given her and her audience expanded to more than that grand father clock. That little church has grown into what is now known as the dynamic, multi-cultural Solid Rock Church.

Besides sharing the pastoral duties of Solid Rock Church with her husband, Darlene travels nearly every week across the nation and abroad preaching the gospel. She is a nationally known conference speaker with a powerful testimony.Several years ago, God gave Darlene a vision to build a residential home for teenage, unwed mothers as an alternative to abortion. After many court battles, Solid Rock Church was awarded the rights to build the Darlene Bishop Home for Life where now many lives of young girls are being transformed.

If you don't see her in person at Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio or somewhere at a conference you can now catch her on the fresh, new, fun talk show, "Sisters", along with her daughter, Jana Mitten, the great gospel singer Shirley Murdock and friend, Arlene Parker. The "Sisters" air weekly on BET, the Church Channel, Daystar and the Word Network.

Your faith will soar as you hear the life changing preaching of this dynamic vessel of God!