Bishop Phillip Thompson

Bishop Phillip A. Thompson serves as Director of Men and Women of Action, a global ministry mobilizing volunteers for disaster relief, construction, and missions work. He began full-time ministry as a youth pastor in Beckley, West Virginia, later serving 18 years as Music and Media Pastor at Heritage Fellowship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Alongside his ministry, Phil invested in his local community as a high school football coach and developed a lifelong passion for missions following his first trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 1995. Since becoming Director of MWOA in 2017, he has worked to expand the organization’s reach through Action Teams in local churches and around the world. He and his wife, Naomi, have four children and five grandchildren.