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Rev. Benjamin Carroll Jr., MDiv.
Senior Pastor/Teacher
Pastor Benjamin Carroll is a powerful and anointed messenger, teacher, and speaker. His voice and a unique view into Christian living offer diverse groups a meaningful lens for examining and empowering their lives. By example and edict, the foundational message that believers must be discipled, discover their purpose and live out that purpose on the earth definitively leaves many encouraged and empowered to do God’s will.
His charismatic speaking and dynamic rise in church leadership have been recognized by The Ministerial Alliance of Palm Beach County. He is also a former President of the Florida East Coast Baptist Associations Ministers & Deacons Northern Union. Pastor Carroll gave leadership to more than five thousand churchgoers and Pastors in churches from as far north as Cocoa, Florida and as far south as Pompano Beach, Florida.
As a leader in social and civic organizations, Pastor Carroll’s professional memberships have included Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, the Ministerial Alliance of the Palm Beaches, The NAACP West Palm Beach Chapter, and The Children’s Defense Fund. He has served in the United States Army Reserve for more than twenty-eight years and currently holds the rank of Major in the Chaplains Corps. He has been mobilized three times during his military career in Support of Desert Storm at Ft Stewart Ga. In 1991. He has severed as Garrison Chaplain at Southern Command in Doral Florida 2010, and most recently he completed a one-year Tour of Duty with the 9th of the 108th Quartermasters as the Battalion Chaplain in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom (CRC) Conus Replacement Center in Ft. Bliss Texas. During his career, he has been awarded the Armed Forces Medal with M Device and ten-year Bronze Hour Glass, Army Commendation Medal (2), Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and the Global War on Terrorism Medal.
Pastor Benjamin Carroll pursued his secondary education at Florida Memorial University in Miami Florida, where he earned his B.A. degree. He went on to earn his Master of Divinity from the Interdenominational Theological Center Morehouse School of Religion in Atlanta Georgia. He is presently a Doctor of Ministry Candidate at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He began his professional service as the Youth Minister of New Calvary Baptist Church under Dr. Posey L. Redmond and the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta where he was ordained in 1997 by the late Rev. Dr. Joseph L. Roberts Jr. He would go on to become the Senior Pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Starkville, Mississippi and to serve as Pastor of Evangelism and Missions for the New Birth Baptist Church of Miami, Florida under his father in ministry Bishop Victor T. Curry. Psychology Today certified, Pastor Carroll's Living Greater Counseling Center combines professional mental health therapy with spiritual elements; offering flexibility, convenience, and a faith-based approach. He has served as the Senior Pastor of the Greater Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in West Palm Beach, Florida since May 2005 and as become an equipping station for active discipleship since 2005.
Pastor Benjamin Carroll is available for private/couples counseling, speaking engagements and lectures.