[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22906]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




ON THE RETIREMENT OF DR. MACK KING CARTER AS SENIOR PASTOR OF NEW MOUNT 
            OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH IN FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA

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                         HON. ALCEE L. HASTINGS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 29, 2009

  Mr. HASTINGS of Florida. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the 
life and career of Dr. Mack King Carter, Senior Pastor of New Mount 
Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on the occasion of his 
retirement. New Mount Olive, founded in 1918, was extremely fortunate 
to receive Dr. Carter as co-pastor in August 1981. Dr. Carter has led 
the congregation since November 1982.
  Dr. Carter, a native of Ocala, Florida, received a Bachelor of Arts 
degree from the University of Florida in 1970, a Master of Divinity 
degree in 1976 and a Doctorate of Ministry degree in 1978, both from 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has done additional studies 
at Florida Memorial College and has received honorary doctorate degrees 
from Florida Memorial and Bethune Cookman College.
  Dr. Carter is considered one of America's great African American 
``pulpiteers.'' His travels have taken him throughout the United States 
and abroad, preaching, teaching and lecturing. A talented educator and 
popular speaker, his classes at the National Baptist Convention 
Congress of Christian Education are filled to capacity with preachers 
and lay persons who come to hear one of God's master teachers. The 
consummate theologian, he is considered a ``preacher's preacher.''
  During his long career, Dr. Carter served three churches in Ocala, 
Florida and one in Prospect, Kentucky before coming to New Mount Olive. 
A great writer in addition to his other talents, he has authored four 
books: A Catechism for Baptists, To Calvary and Beyond, A Quest for 
Freedom and Interpreting the Will of God.
  In his younger days, Dr. Carter was a huge fan of the New York 
Yankees. Everyone in the New Mount Olive family and visitors through 
the years fondly recall his greeting, ``We're deliciously proud to have 
you.'' Since 1973, he has been the devoted husband of Patricia A. 
Thomas Carter and is the proud father of two wonderful daughters, 
Annalisa Robinson-Melton and Pamela Latrice Johnson. He is also the 
doting grandfather of Brittany N. Robinson and Carter Nathaniel 
Johnson.
  Madam Speaker, it has been a great joy for me and this congregation 
to have Dr. Carter as a friend, supporter, comforter and mentor. I wish 
him the very best on his retirement.

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