Tenured entrepreneur and community leader, Vernon Holmes brings with him years of managerial and grassroots advocacy experience. An engineer by trade, he has established and managed companies that grew to be formidable enterprises prior to entering the nonprofit sector.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering and a graduate degree in Business Administration and serves on the ministerial board at Greater Refuge Temple Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc. (COOLJC). In 2014, Vernon announced candidacy for Maryland State Delegate but suspended his campaign to attend to the needs of the company.

Vernon also serves on the Home Missions Department for the COOLJC International Body. Vernon has a passion for helping people to succeed in all they do.

Mr. Boyd has worked in various capacities in senior management. He is pursuing a degree in childhood education and plans to establish a more formidable education arm of Uplift I.N.C. focused on community youth, charter school and after school programs for poverty stricken children.

Demetrius Brockington is a native of South Carolina who moved to Virginia during his teenage years. He graduated from Prince George High School and later received his BS in Industrial Engineering and Commissioned into the Armed Forces, Quartermaster Corp, from Virginia State University.

After feeling the desire to want to grow more in God, he returned back to school and received his Masters of Divinity form Virginia Union University, Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. During this time he decided that if he was going to excel spiritually then he should be equally yoked corporately. He then jointly pursued his degree with Salem University's, MBA program and is currently owning and operating a business in the state of Maryland.

He is now the Chief Operations Officer and President of HolBrock Estates Assisted Living Facility and is the Advisor of Community Wellness Center in the city of Baltimore. There he, along through this business strives to provide holistic care, housing, and medical treatment for individuals who are homeless, diagnosed with a mental and physical disability, and in need of rehabilitation coordination services. He is currently in school for his PhD in Clinical Psychology and his hope is to utilize his skills and provide private practice to those in ministry and in other reformations.

Elder Brockington is an active member and youth advisor to the International Christian Ministries, under the leadership of Chief Apostle, Dr. Olive C. Brown and member of the New Jerusalem, International Christian Ministries Church, in Richmond, VA.

He is a man that loves God and believes in spreading the gospel and the love of Christ to everyone that he comes in contact with. He is the son of Alfred Brockington and Dessie Foxe and the youngest of 3 boys, with a host of nieces and nephews.

As a proud alumni of Virginia State University and a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, INC., Elder Demetrius is an example that achievement can be reached, in every field of human endeavor, if you can just believe and trust God all the way!