Reverend Timothy White, D.D.
On May 13, 1906, he started his first church work, under the name of the Holy Trinity Baptist Mission which was later reorganized and called the Bethel Baptist Church. A prayer group that consist of Brother Joseph Holland, Sister Bertha Brooks, Brother Jordan Robinson and fourteen other followers, formed the nucleus of the great Bethel Baptist Church.
Reverend Luther T. Chapman

Reverend Paul T. Pruden
Reverend Dr. Willie James Hall
Reverend Dr. H. DeVore Chapman
Our fourth pastor, Rev. Dr. H. DeVore Chapman, also born in Greenville, South Carolina was the grandnephew to our second pastor, Rev. Luther T. Chapman. Rev. Chapman would visit New York every summer as a young man and New York would eventually become his home. He attended Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina as well as Fordham University in New York.
He joined Bethel under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Willie James Hall where he became active in different ministries. In 1968, Rev. Chapman was ordained to preach the Gospel by Rev. Dr. W. J. Hall. His calling led him to pastor Greater Bright Light Baptist Church, where he continued to do so for 35 years.