Our Pastor

Pastor R. A. Watson is a native of the Republic of Panama , and a graduate of the Panama Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He was the pastor in the City of Panama and the Canal Zone before arriving to the United States.

Pastor Watson has been a pastor of several churches, one in Harrisburg, one in Beaver Falls, and two in Erie, Pennsylvania. While in Erie, Pennsylvania, he served as the moderator of the Lake Erie Missionary Baptist Association, President of the Greater Erie Interdenominational Ministers Alliance, Erie County Hispanic American Council, Inc. and a member of the Erie O.I.C. Board Of Directors,  associate director of the Interchurch Ministries of Northwester, Pennsylvania.  He has served as a juvenile counselor, drug and alcohol counselor, adult probation officer, parole officer, certified DUI instructor, and area vice moderator of the Allegheny Union Baptist Association.  Pastor Watson produced and directed the “Zion Time”, a TV Gospel program featuring the choirs of the Beautiful Zion Baptist Church, and a radio broadcast, “The Hour of Victory”.  Pastor Watson facilitated and participated in the Erie County Prison Ministry and served as consultant to Afro-American and Hispanic churches.  

While in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Pastor Watson served as chairman for the City of Beaver Fall Community Relations Committee and vice president of the Beaver Valley Chapter of the National Association of Evangelicals.  He was a member of the Beaver Falls Ministerium and served as a member of the Geneva College Minority Affairs Advisory Committee.  He was trustee for the Allegheny Union Baptist Association Building Board.  Pastor Watson was the facilitator for the Geneva College and Afro-American Pastor’s Dialogue of Beaver Falls.

While in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Pastor Watson founded and pastured the Redeeming Life Christian Fellowship Baptist Church .  He later founded and served as CEO of the Redeeming Life Christian Fellowship Ministries  International (The Foreign Missions Ministry of the Church).  Pastor Watson served as an instructor in the Pennsylvania Baptist State Congress of Christian Education, Vice-president of the Central Region Congress of Christian Education, member of the Board of Directors of Christian Churches United, member of the interdenominational Ministers Conference of Harrisburg, and served as a Vicinity and Dauphin County adult probation officer and parole officer.  

Pastor Watson was recruited by members of the Southern Baptist State Convention of Pennsylvania and South Jersey to lead a commission in planting the first Hispanic Baptist Church in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania .  He also served as a church planting instructor; certified conflict manager; Church Staff Development and Management counselor; and President of the Southern Baptist Pastor’s Conference of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

On April 29, 2000 , Pastor Watson was consecrated to the Office of Bishop, Presiding over 25 churches, pastors, ministers and ministries (orphanage, street children, feeding children and church planting) in the Republic of Kenya and Panama.  Pastor Watson has ministered in England, South Korea, Kenya, Panama and Bermuda.