[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15778]
[From the U.S. 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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