Sr. Pastor Carver Adams Sr. and congregation look back in wonder
Rosie Brown was sitting on her porch in the College Park neighborhood near then-Bishop College in the mid-1960s. She was pregnant in her late 20s and unsure how she and her husband would handle raising this new life in this new neighborhood where they had recently moved.
She looked up as a preacher walked up and greeted her. College Park Baptist Church founding pastor, Booker T. Watson Sr. was out and about in the neighborhood, inviting residents to a new church that he was about to open in a house at 6360 J. J. Lemmon Road.
The church would be named after the community where it’s located. Ms. Brown and the pastor talked, and he shared encouragement. She thought about his words and came to the opening service…