Dr. Richy Petrello and Pastor Cathe Petrello, Senior Pastors of Glory Zone Fellowship, have been in full-time ministry for over 20 years.  Their backgrounds are comprised of training as ordained ministers of the gospel as well as Christian educators. 

A robust and anointed music ministry is one of the key cornerstones of Glory Zone.  Pastor Richy and his wife, Pastor Cathe oversee a dynamic band, choir, drama and dance ministry at Glory Zone.  Pastor Richy received a doctorate from Jacksonville Theological Seminary in 1999. 

In addition to Pastoral responsibilities at Glory Zone, Pastor Richy has a vibrant evangelistic music outreach ministry, domestically and internationally, as a Christian Artist with a “Heart for the Nations”.  An anointed music ministry has been an international passport for reaching some of the most impoverished nations on the globe with the life-transforming message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
 
In September of 1998, Pastors Richy and Cathe Petrello returned with their family from Dallas, Texas, where they were full-time ministers at The North Church.   With a burden and passion to reach the lost, the needy and the hurting, Pastors Richy and Cathe returned to their home town of Long Island, New York to pioneer the church we today call Glory Zone Fellowship.   Pastors Richy and Cathe are on a mission to spread the good news message of the gospel on Long Island, in New York, and wherever God leads them throughout the nation and world.

Glory Zone is an affiliated member of Church on the Rock International, an inter-denominational organization with over 4,000 affiliate churches world wide.  Pastors Richy and Cathe Petrello have been ordained and commissioned by Dr. Lawrence Kennedy, (President), of Church on The Rock International.

Glory Zone Fellowship is “a church of family and friends caring for one another”.  The primary ministry vision of this House is to reflect the love of Jesus of Christ to the lost and to those within our church family through multi-faceted ministries that cater to ministering to the whole person; and as individuals are nurtured and cared for within the church, to then channel the love of Jesus Christ outside the four walls of the church, through dynamic mercy and outreach ministries that spring forth from a nurtured, vibrant, trained and equipped local church body.

Glory Zone Fellowship is founded on the ministry cornerstones of prayer; praise and worship;  preaching and teaching of the Word of God & the ministry of the Holy Spirit; and evangelism and outreach.  With the scriptures as our guiding principles, these ministry foundations are common themes that permeate each and every ministry at Glory Zone.