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Dr. Bernard WilliamsSenior Pastor A
native of Fairfield Alabama, Bernard Williams is the son of Mrs.
Mary L. Lockett Dr. Williams’ vita includes professional experiences as a teacher and band instructor in the Birmingham School System. He was also a fervent employee of the Fairfield Police department where he served as Director of the Police Athletic Teams, Chaplain and Reserve Officer. Rev. Williams has been employed with Miles College since 1998 and serves as Certification Officer and Professor in the Division of Education, and Director of the Miles College Choir. Under his astute leadership, the choir has grown from a membership of 32 in 1998 to more than 100 traveling members today. In April of 2007, Dr. Williams was promoted to the administrative position of Chief Compliance Officer at the College. He was selected to serve as the Spiritual Advisor for the congressional black Caucus; nominated as one of the 15 Great US Preachers by Ebony Magazine; selected as Who’s Who of Greater Birmingham, Outstanding Young Men of America and Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Birmingham NAACP. Professor Williams’s professional activities include the Alabama Congress of Christian Education, State Music Director; coordinator of Fine Arts, Past Alabama State Youth Music Direst, National Congress of Christian education, Dean of Music, and past Assistant Music Director for the National Baptist Convention, USA Inc. He is a Studio Engineer with Midi Recording Studio; recording artist; song writer/arranger; studio musician; and record producer. Dr. Williams is a national songwriter and performer for the Gospel Music Workshop of America; he has produced commissioned works for: the National Baptist convention of America and USA, Inc, the National Association for Negro Musicians, the Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God, and the Miles College Choir. He also serves as Captain of the Chaplains Division, Birmingham Police Department. Dr.
Williams’ community activities include membership in: Khedive Temple #16, Shriners; Red Cross
Consistory, 33rd Degree Mason; Mizpah Grand Chapter, O.E.S. Alabama,
Grand Patron; Past President of the Metro-Birmingham Minister’s Conference;
vice –President of the Greater Pratt City Ministers conference; Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia Fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psy Fraternity, and Phi Delta
Kappa Fraternity. Dr. Williams has pastored Mt Moriah Baptist church since 1981 where the congregation has experienced phenomenal growth to more than 1,500 members under his leadership. The church has a fulltime staff and powerful spiritual ministries. It feeds 150 hungry men and women weekly. This Man of God has conducted revivals and music Workshops through out the United States, Haiti, Africa, Nicaragua, and the Caribbean. |
Williams and the late
Mr. Jimmie L. Williams. An educational
pioneer, Dr. Williams was a member of the first class to integrate the
Fairfield School System. He attended
Tennessee State University with a major in Music Education for voice and the
organ; he received the Bachelors of Music in Music Education from Samford
University in Birmingham, Alabama, the Master’s of Arts Degree in Education
Administration from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he was a
Danforth Fellow; the Ed.S. Degree from Samford
University in Educational
Administration; a M.Th. and the Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Mercy Seat
School of Theology. Dr. Williams also earned the Ed.D. in
Educational Leadership from Samford
University. He was the recipient of a United Negro
College Fund/Lilly Foundation Fellowship.
