Dr. Harold A Carter, Jr., pastor of New Shiloh Baptist Church is a third generation preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, having been licensed and ordained in the church of his upbringing (1980), the New Shiloh Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Carter is a graduate of Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania, earning a B.A. in English Literature, Writing and Religion, a graduate of the Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, earning a Master of Divinity degree and is a graduate of the United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, earning the Doctor of Ministry degree. Among many other honors and awards, he received the Doctor of Divinity degree from the Virginia Seminary and College, Lynchburg, Virginia, and the Doctor of Humane Letter from Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky, serves as the President and New Testament/ Hermeneutics Professor for the Determined Biblical & Theological Institute of Baltimore, MD. He has served as a Co-Mentor for more than 60 doctoral students at the United Theological Seminary, Dayton, OH. He is married to Rev. Monique T. Carter, and they are the parents of two sons, Rev. Daniel Carter and Timothy Alphonso Carter.