Valerie Tripp Frazier

Pastor Valerie T. Frazier joins her husband in the ministry and is a Co-Founder of Wakefield Family Church. Pastor Valerie's graceful fingerprints are among most of the ministries at WFC and serves as the Women's & Youth Pastor.

A native of New Bern, Pastor Valerie Tripp Frazier spent most of her formative years in Morehead City, North Carolina. She received her early education in the New Bern schools and later in the Carteret County School System. She was baptized and received her early church training at Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, New Bern and later at St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church, Morehead City, where she faithfully served in the Youth Department.

Upon entering college in 1983 at North Carolina State University she heard the un-compromised Gospel being taught at the United Student Fellowship by Dr. Shelton Murphy and began training to answer the call of God on her life.

In the winter of 1987, she married Pastor Rodney Frazier, her high school sweetheart and they will celebrate 24 years of marriage in December of this year. She and her husband enjoy a tight knit family with their two children, Rodney, II age 20, a junior at North Carolina State University and Christina, age 17, a student at Wakefield High School.

Pastor Valerie was ordained under her Pastors Reginald and Sandra Stepney of the "Go Tell It Ministry Worldwide Network of Churches" in the fall of 2004. A past member of Fulfilled Promise Tabernacle, Pastor Valerie and her husband faithfully serve their Pastors for 18 years in various ministries such as the Church Board, Board of Directors, Women's Leadership Team and Married Couples Ministry.

Pastor Valerie enjoyed a successful 10-year career in the Software Industry working with several Software Start-up Companies in the Research Triangle Park. After taking a 5-year hiatus from the workforce, she has been employed with the Wake County Public School Systems as an Behavior Support Coordinator, and is currently the Executive Director of Wakefield Family Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit that supports the "Structured Day Program" that meets the academic and social needs of students during their suspension from Wakefield & Heritage High School.

Pastor Valerie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from North Carolina State University and is an International Conference and Workshop speaker that has a passion for rightfully dividing the word of God with truth so that the women of God can walk in the liberty that God promised.

She currently holds an Associate & Advanced Degree in Christian Ministry.

Pastor Valerie is preparing for a second Missions trip to Zimbabwe, Africa where she will be the keynote speaker at a Women Conference in Mutare and a Pastor's Wives & Women Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe.