Dr. Carter is pastor of the New Shiloh Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland. He was married to the late Dr. Weptanomah W. Carter for 48 blest years. Together, they are the parents of Weptanomah Carter Davis, wife of a pastor, and Harold A. Carter, Jr., who joins with his father, along with his family, as pastor of New Shiloh Baptist Church.

On May 27, 1990, Dr. Carter led New Shiloh into a modern church and Family Life Center. The building complex, costing more than $11,000,000 has been paid in full and the church is presently developing a three-block complex known as The New Shiloh Village Center. Dilapidated factories and other blight properties have been moved and now a Child Development Center is in operation, along with modern parking facilities. A mechanic engineering garage is being developed to train community persons in hi-tech auto mechanics and provide for them jobs at the end of this process. Additionally, a huge building in the village is being transformed to serve as a Computer Center, Senior Citizens recreation, health services, music studio, arts colony and other creative needs. Plans also call for building Senior Housing to be a total part of the Village Project.

Dr. Carter has led evangelistic ministries across America and many foreign countries. On numerous occasions, he has preached Men's Rallies for the Promise Keepers Ministries.

Dr. Carter's first book, The Prayer Tradition of Black People continues to be a standard work in the Black Spiritual Anthology. A more recent work, Building Disciples in the Local Church, is used widely by ministries seeking Christian renewal. His book, America, Where Are You Going? has proven to be a prophetic call to our nation, so richly blest by the Christian faith and often ignoring its precepts in contemporary life.

The church, New Shiloh, operates a School of Music training students in all types of musical disciplines. The church is also the founding force for the Determined Biblical and Theological Institute of Baltimore, Maryland, founded June 1996, and open to all students. More than one hundred preachers have been called and licensed under the pastoral leadership of Dr. Carter at New Shiloh (1965, present), with more than 40 such persons licensed/ordained, theologically trained and serving various congregations.

Dr. Carter has earned two academic Doctorate Degrees, a Ph. D. from St. Mary's Ecumenical University, Baltimore, Maryland and Colgate Bexler Hall/Crozer Seminary, Rochester, New York, both awarded in the year 1976. This minister continues to be guided by the theme, "Determined To Live With Christ."

Dr. Harold A. Carter was a student at Alabama State College, 1952-1956, when the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. He was immediately embraced by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, ministerial friends of his family, often traveling with them as a student interested in Christian ministry, and being influenced by their leadership.

Later, when Dr. Carter was pastoring the Court Street Baptist, Lynchburg, Virginia, and serving as one of the leaders of the Lynchburg Improvement Association, Dr. King was called to this city to further the Civil Rights Movement in a City-Wide mass meeting that helped to being renewal to Lynchburg.

When Pastor Carter first came to Baltimore, Maryland, to pastor the New Shiloh Baptist Church in 1965, he led the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and also led local ministers to one of the last major conferences that Dr. King held for leaders in the Civil Rights Movement, in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1966. After the death of Dr. King, Dr. Carter became the leader of the Baltimore Chapter of the Poor People's Campaign, that came to a climax as poor people from around the nation gathered at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. to call America into addressing the concerns of poor people in a land of plenty.

Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr. is a third generation preacher of the Gospel ofJesus Christ, having been licensed and ordained in the church of his upbringing (1980), the New Shiloh Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr. is married to Rev. Monique T. Carter, and they are the parents of two sons, Daniel Nathan and Timothy Alphonso. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. (Also Dr.) Harold A. Carter and has one sister.

Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr. is a graduate of Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania, earning a B.A. in English Literature/ Writing and Religion... is a graduate of the Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, earning a Master of Divinity degree... is a graduate of the United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, earning the Doctor of Ministry degree, and among many honors and awards, he received the Doctor of Divinity degree from the Virginia Seminary and College, Lynchburg, Virginia.

Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr. is the pastor (since 1996) of the New Shiloh Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland, serving along with his father Dr. Harold A. Carter. Together, they lead the congregation of more than 5,000 active members with emphasis on Missions, Evangelism, and Christian Education. His preaching is heard widely through radio and television broadcasts, including radio stations WEAL and WCAO Heaven 600, as well as the WORD television network. He formerly pastored the First Baptist Church, Petersburg, Virginia, believed to be the oldest African,American Baptist congregation in America* (1989,1996) and the Zion Baptist Church, Reading, Pennsylvania (1983,1989).

Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr. his ministry has taken him to such places as the Middle East, Romania, Panama, Trinidad, Korea, China, England, the Bahamas, and India, where he has, also, been privileged to share the Gospel. He sees his" call" to the ministry as "The Divine compulsion to do God's will."

Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr. he has served on a number of boards and conferences. Presently, he serves as the Vice-President and New Testament & Hermeneutics Professor for the Determined Biblical & Theological Institute of Baltimore, MD. He, also, is a Co-Mentor for doctoral candidate students at the United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH. Additionally, he is the Co-chair of the Board of Directors of the New Shiloh Village Development Project; a non,profit organization with a goal of community development.

Dr. Harold A. Carter, Jr. as an outgrowth of his ministry, publications include: Jesus is Knocking at Your Door, Six Significant Sermons, The Sacred Marriage-Getting Started in Pastoral Ministry, The Burning Bush, (Co-author), and the recently released Harold's Hermeneutics-Volume One. Additionally, he has written several songs, two of which have been recorded and performed by New Shiloh's Music Ministry, entitled "You Will Know" and "I Never Shall Forget to Praise Your Name."

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. Woodson, Carter G., The Story of the Negro Retold, The Associated Publishers, Inc.,
Washington, D.C., 1945, pg.62.