[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 139 (Friday, November 14, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         IN HONOR OF THE RETIREMENT OF REVEREND RONALD WINTERS

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                        HON. GERALD E. CONNOLLY

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 14, 2014

  Mr. CONNOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Reverend 
Ronald Winters and to congratulate him on his retirement following 49 
years of pastoral service to the Northern Virginia Community.
   Rev. Winters is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he 
graduated from Crispus Attucks High School in June 1950. He served 
honorably in the United States Navy and then attended Bishop College in 
Marshall, Texas. In 1969, Rev. Winters received the Bachelor of 
Theology and Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degrees from Baltimore College 
of Bible and Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland.
   Reverend Winters was licensed to the Gospel Ministry by First 
Baptist Church of North Indianapolis, Indiana in 1954 and ordained to 
the work of the Gospel Ministry by Mt. Calvary Baptist Church of 
Rockville, Maryland in 1965. He served as Pastor of the Mt. Pleasant 
Baptist Church in Herndon, Virginia from 1965 to 1972, Shiloh Baptist 
Church in McLean, Virginia from 1973 to 1987, and Peace Baptist Church 
in Dunn Loring, Virginia from 1988 to 1993. In 1994, Reverend Winters 
organized the Resurrection Baptist Church of Reston, Virginia where he 
has served as Pastor for the past nineteen years.
   Rev. Winters has also been involved in numerous religious and 
community service organizations. He is the former First Vice Moderator 
of the Northern Virginia Baptist Association; member of the Board of 
Directors of One Church One Child of Virginia; Life Member and Past 
President of the Fairfax County Branch of the National Association for 
the Advancement of Colored People; and member of the Board of Directors 
of the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation. He is the past President of the 
Baptist Ministers Conference of Northern Virginia and a previous Board 
member of Food for Others in Northern Virginia.
   Reverend Winters' professional experience as a United States Senate 
Staff member included Special Assistant for Minority Affairs for 
Senator Vance Hartke (1960-1973); Assistant Chief Clerk for the Senate 
Veterans Affairs Committee (1973-1975); Special Assistant to Senator 
Harrison A. Williams (1975-1982); and Special Assistant to Senator 
Nicholas F. Brady (1982-1983). In 1970, he offered the convening prayer 
in the chamber of the United States Senate and in 1968 his ``Tribute to 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'' was published in the Congressional 
Record.
   Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in thanking Rev. Winters 
for his service to the church, his community, and our country and in 
congratulating him on his well-deserved retirement.

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