Rev. Dr. William Webster Easley, Jr., Pastor
Taylor Chapel Community AME Church
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Pastor Easley has successfully pastored five major congregations; served as Treasurer for the Second Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church embracing the States of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia; Chairman, the Board of Ministerial Training for the Western North Carolina Conference and the Tennessee Conference of the A.M.E. Church; Chairman, the Fourth Year Class for the Washington Conference Board of Ministerial Training.
EDUCATION: B.S. (Bachelor of Science in Sociology), Tennessee State University, 1967; M.Div. (Master of Divinity), Payne Theological Seminary, 1970; A Ford Foundation Fellow; A Richard Allen Fellow. Further Graduate Studies: The Urban Training Center for Christian Mission (University of Chicago); The University of Dayton - History; Austin-Peay State University, History; Eastern Kentucky State University, Group Dynamics and Clinical Psychology; The University of Georgia, Institute for Government.
AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: The Lubrizol Foundation Award for Academic Excellence, "The Brotherhood Award", from the Grand Lodge of North Carolina Free and Accepted Masons (PHA); Commissioned "A Kentucky Colonel", by the Governor of Kentucky, 1990; The North Carolina Department of Human Resources', "Certificate Of Merit"; The North Carolina "Governors Award" for Exemplary Citizen Involvement; Three (3) "Certificates of Appreciation", from the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars Telethon benefiting the United Negro College Fund, United Way of America; "Award Of Excellence", 1990, Featured Preacher in "The Washington Times" Pulpit Series; Doctor of Laws (LL.D.), 1984, Monrovia College, Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa; Doctor of Divinity (D.D.), 1988, Monrovia College, Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa; Visiting Lecturer, The University of Louisville; Guest Lecturer, Duke University; Visiting Lecturer, Bowie State University; Guest Preacher, Duke University Chapel and Guest Preacher, St. Paul's College.
COMMUNITY AND RELIGIOUS INVOLVEMENT
WILBERFORCE, OHIO:
Liaison Representative for the National Council of Churches and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign in Washington, D.C.
CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE:
First Vice President, Clarksville Branch NAACP
Lesson Writer, for the Primary, Junior and Senior Sunday School Quarterlies for the A.M.E. Church Department of Christian Education
Married to Ora L (Seats) Easley, Administrator of the Clergy Family Information Center AME Church; they have one son, William Webster Easley, III and daughter-in-law, Sonja Elaine of Silver Spring, Maryland.
