Bishop Benjamin Watts
Bishop Watts’ service to the community at-large is expansive. He is a member of both the Shiloh Development Corporation and United Way Board of Directors. He served as President of the Connecticut State Missionary Baptist Convention from 2003 to 2007. He is a past member of various boards of directors including Lawrence & Memorial Hospital and the Hartford Seminary. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Connecticut College in New London from 1994 to 1999.
Bishop Watts is a member of the New London Rotary Club and has been awarded the prestigious Paul Harris Fellow Award for community service. He is a faculty associate at Hartford Seminary, where he is also the director of the Black Ministries Program. He is a member of the New London Chapter, NAACP; and Past President of the Southeastern Connecticut Ministerial Alliance.
