The Rev. Maurice Watson is the sixth pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church, a 150-year-old congregation in the District that for decades has welcomed presidents, other politicians and iconic figures ...

Longtime church members may have only a few weeks to worship at the historic Second Metropolitan Baptist Church, which reportedly has been sold without their knowledge or approval. The 300 members of ...

For more than a century, Metropolitan Baptist Church was one of the premier churches in Washington. And for nearly 40 years, the Rev. H. Beecher Hicks Jr. forged a reputation as a “preacher’s preacher ...

Dr. King once wrote “human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable.” Today Metropolitan Baptist Church addressed a time for change. Guest speaker L.K. Pendleton says it’s important to analyze ...

Metropolitan Baptist Church recently received a $25,000 grant to improve its building security from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. The grant was was formally announced this week ...