In 1984, after being in Charlotte, NC for 12 years, as the church began to grow, having a desire to see churches established in other places, and realizing there would be a need for men to pastor these churches, the need for teaching and training them became the nucleus for a training school.

 

There was also a need to prepare men and women to be able to be a ministry and faculty to meet the needs of a growing church having the necessary departments to meet the needs of men, women, and youth.

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The Joseph D Williams bible institute was first organized, located at 2039 Holly Street, Charlotte, NC. The school had only one large classroom.

3 classes were taught each Monday night.

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The school set up a library and added one more classroom. The student body consisted of approximately 12-15 students, both men, and women.

 

Some traveled from a distance as far away as Florence and Mullins SC, and the majority were from Charlotte, NC.

 

The subject matter taught was the lesson from the Evangelical Teachers Association, known as ETA. All the teachers were certified by ETA.

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Classes taught were:

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Old Testament survey, New Testament survey, Poetry and Prophecy, New Testament History, Old Testament History, How to prepare sermons, Law and Kingdom, Great Doctrine of the Bible, and many more.

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The school’s founder, Elder Lang Priester, also at the time was taking classes through correspondence with Southwest International Bible College, that time located in San Antonio Texas.

 

The school closed its doors because a training class was being organized in Columbia, SC at the Headquarters church. All Ministers, Elders, and teachers were expected to attend.

 

Not wanting to cause an issue within the body, Elder Priester decided to end the teaching in Charlotte and support the training in Columbia.

 

In 2017, Bishop Priester saw the need for re-establishing the J.D. WILLIAMS BIBLE INSTITUTE in Charlotte. This time with the determined mind and desire for preparing men for the ministry, he decided that the J.D. WILLIAMS SR BIBLE INSTITUTE will never again close its doors and stop its teaching program.

 

 By this time the church had built a $2,000,000.00 church with all the needed space for the school. Because of his love and admiration for his 1st pastor, Bishop Joseph David Williams Senior, the school will be named after him and the name is to never be changed, and the school will be fully accredited by AC1, the world’s largest non-secular accreditation association.

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