Bishop Smallwood E Williams (1907-1991) began his ministry in 1927, when he arrived here from Columbus, Ohio, with little more than $5 in his pocket, a second hand tent and the conviction that God would provide for the daily needs of those who sought His help. In time, he founded the Bible Way Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Worldwide, which claims more than 100,000 members and has about 330 congregations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Bishop Smallwood’s son, Wallace, was just 5 years old, whenthe two of them staged a sit-in at the whites-only Wheatley Elementary School.
Bishop Williams was a force in politics and the civil rights movement, Williams was a former president of the D.C. chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a delegate to several national conventions of the Democratic Party
We commemorate and Celebrate!
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