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Chaplain 2006-2008Rev. John C. Williams '62
During his year of graduation (1962), he began service as minister at Mt Nebo Baptist Church (Eastover-Wateree Community of Lower Richland County) and Beauty Hill Baptist Church (Great Branch Community of Orangeburg County). He served at Beauty Hill for twenty (20) years and at Mt Nebo for twenty-seven (27) years. He presently serves as pastor at the Macedonia Baptist Church in the Blythewood-Ridgeway community. In 1962, he began work as a public school teacher, where he would remain for four years - two at his high school alma mater, Booker T. Washington, and two at Webber High School in Eastover. In 1966, he was hired by the Internal Revenue Service as a revenue Officer, the first black revenue officer hired in South Carolina. He would continue in this bivocational role for the next twenty years, leaving the Internal Revenue Service in 1986. Rev. Williams received his ministerial training at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia. During his years of ministerial work, he has served as moderator of the Torn Creek Union; president of the Wateree Baptist Sunday School Convention - Upper Division; member of the executive boards of both the Mt. Olive Baptist Association and the Wateree Baptist Association - Upper Division. He is an active supporter of and participant with the Baptist E & M Convention of SC (member of its executive board) and the SC Baptist Congress of Christian Education, of which he was a faculty member. Rev. Williams is vice chairman of the executive/steering committee of the SC Coalition of Black Church Leaders, an affiliate of the Congress of National Black Churches. He is vice president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Greater Columbia, and vice moderator of the Fairfield County Baptist Association. In August 1987; Rev. Williams accepted a staff position at Benedict College, serving as director of the Office of Church Relations. Civic & Community Activities: Rev. Williams is a Past Master of Capital City Lodge No. 47, a member of C. C. Johnson Consistory No. 136 (32nd degree masons), and a member of Cairo Temple No. 125 (shriners). He is the Assistant Grand Chaplain for the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the State of SC. Alumni Involvement and other honors: He has served at various levels in the Benedict College Alumni organization, including president of the Benedict College Columbia Alumni Club #2 and president of the Benedict College National Alumni Association. He has received several awards in recognition of his service to the church and church-related organizations, the Masonic family, and to the community. Benedict College has honored him as its Founder's Day speaker and in May 1986 bestowed upon him the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. As a federal employee, the Internal Revenue Service nominated him for the area "Federal Employee of the Year" Award. He was chosen as Capital City Lodge's "Mason of the Year" for 1985. He is married to the former Jeanette Louise Evans, and they have two daughters-Cynthia H. Mack and Camela W. McAllister and four grandchildren-Donovan, Janay, Danielle and Devin. |
Benedict College National Alumni Association
Rev. John
C. Williams is a
native of Richland County. He was educated in the public schools of Richland County, and later
graduated from Benedict College.