Prior to that, he served as Associate Pastor at Grace & Peace Fellowship (PCA) in St. Louis, pastored New Song Community Church (PCA) in the Sandtown community of inner-city Baltimore, Maryland, was the Minister of Outreach & Youth at Faith Christian Fellowship Church (PCA) in Baltimore, and served for several years as Chairman of the PCA’s Mission to North America Committee. He and his wife Evie have been married for 28 years and have four adult children.

Dr. Williams notes that Christ-centered preaching and engaging our world with apologetic wisdom and sensitivity has had a tremendous influence in shaping who he is as a preacher. He has also been profoundly impacted by growing up in the African American church, and by some of the distinctive emphases found there—preaching consistent and enduring hope in the midst of chronic suffering; emotive and interactive engagement with the congregation; applying the Word directly and practically to body and soul; and what is typically called “the celebration,” which brings together the sermon’s main ideas to point to and celebrate their fulfillment in Christ.