Pastor Cortez Hampton, Sr. is the first-born child of Dana Hampton and Myron Black. He is a proud native Washingtonian, and a son and servant of Faith Tabernacle of Prayer for All People in Southeast, Washington, D.C., under the leadership of the late Rev. Dr. Judy Talbert.

Pastor Hampton attended the College of Southern Maryland and Marymount University and holds a degree in Legal Studies with a minor in Political Science. His Christian education was received at the Tabernacle of Prayer Bible Institute based in Jamacia Queens, New York. He is currently in pursuit of a Master of Ministry in Biblical Exposition from Andersonville Theological Seminary in Georgia. He has devoted over 10 years to government service, mostly to Department of Justice, in the Civil and Criminal divisions of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Tax Division, but also the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and currently as an Investigator with the Attorney General’s Office in D.C.

Pastor Hampton is a sought-after teacher and preacher of the gospel and is also a singer, songwriter, and anointed organist, trained under renowned organist, the late Elder Leon Bonner. He served as a Minister of Music with the National Tabernacle of Prayer Crusade Choir, Minister of Music for the D.C. Tabernacle and has been blessed to play for the likes of Patrick Lundy & the Ministers of Music, Vickie Winans, VaShawn Mitchell and Lady Tramaine Hawkins.

Pastor Hampton served as a board member of Reintegrating Alternatives Personal Program (RAPP), a non-profit community and faith-based transitional services organization that provides reentry services to returning citizens and helps prevent recidivism and improve quality of life in the D.C. Metro area. Through RAPP, he helped to write and obtain grants, and was the host of “ManPower”, a community forum for men from all walks of life to be inspired, enlightened, and empowered by talking about mentoring, economics, education, fatherhood, and faith, and more importantly, putting actions behind those conversations. He has served with the lay ministers of the Congressional Black Caucus and regularly attended and assisted with its annual Prayer Breakfast. He also worked with President Obama’s “the Fatherhood Initiative”. On MLK day in January 2011, he was awarded The President’s Volunteer Service Award by President Barak Obama for his faithfulness to ministry and community.

Pastor Hampton is committed to the kingdom work of The Lord, in and outside of the four walls on the church. Pastor Hampton is married to Lady Tia Hampton, and they have three children –Elysia, Cortez, Jr., and Cooper. Pastor Hampton is a lover of the word of God; and his favorite scripture is found in Lamentations 3:21-23: “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”