Bishop Tyrone Smith, D.TH is the Pastor & Founder of The Love Center in Baltimore, MD. He was born and raised in Owings Mills, MD and has served actively in church for over 30 years, faithfully in ministry for over 28 years, with 22 of those years as a pastor in the Maryland region. He was educated through the Baltimore Public School System where he graduated and later obtained his bachelor's degree in Theology. He completed his academic studies and holds a Master of Ministry in Leadership and satisfied all his academic requirements and graduated with his Doctoral Degree in Theology July 24, 2021. Consecrated to the sacred office of Bishop in the LORD'S Church in 2012, he serves as the Presiding Bishop of Prophetic Grace Episcopal Ecclesia, an organization he birthed with a specific desire to nurture and foster churches & leaders throughout the country. He has a great respect for leadership and those he has served throughout the years. He attributes his early years of ministry to his first father in the faith, Dr. Herman Mack of Praise Temple Worship Center. As time has progressed, GOD sent him a man to nurture and father his life & destiny and honors him as his father in the faith now, Bishop Joseph A. McCargo Sr. Senior Pastor of the City of Hope International Worship Centre. An entrepreneur with an exceptional grace for the 21st century marketplace, Bishop Smith is a Financial Advisor & Credit Specialist with an Insurance Producer License in Maryland, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Delaware. He's preparing to launch a Farmers Insurance Agency to provide auto, home, RV, and motorcycle insurance to combine his Life Insurance & Credit Agency into one office to provide financial & insurance services. He also owns & operates PGEE Graphic Design, a graphic and web designing company he founded in 2008 to provide an array of graphic, web, and media services across the country. He has served on the Board of Directors for Sanford Brown College as well as an Adjunct Professor for SBC, the Vice-President for the Baltimore Adolescent Treatment Guidance Organization a Treatment Foster Care/Child Placement Agency providing a full range of therapeutic and career development services to the youth (aged 10 and up) admitted into the program. However, the greatest accomplishment Bishop Smith relishes the most is his ardent love toward his wife and children. He is very happily married to Savonna Gooden-Smith, whom he married in November 2004, and they share in sincere & loving responsibility for their 3 sons: Dominic Jeriah, Jalen Takel, and Desten Tyvonne Smith. He is a humble but extremely confident man with a genuine vision for kingdom development.
