Baptist Women Celebration
Fellowship Hall
Carol Richardson
What do you love most about First Baptist Memphis?
I have always loved, since I was a little girl growing up in this church, its loving, nurturing people.
What hobbies do you enjoy?
Travel: say the word, “go” and I am on the train, plane or automobile; collecting nativities and Elvis memorabilia.
What is your favorite novel?
Several have impacted my perspective at different stages in life: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Good Earth by Pearl Buck; The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
What is your favorite movie?
“Sound of Music”, “An Affair to Remember”, “O Brother, Where Art Thou”, “Trains, Planes and Automobiles”
What are your favorite websites?
EthicsDaily.com, Wikapedia, Google
The Fine Print
Carol serves as associate pastor of First Baptist Church, Memphis. She received her B.A. degree from Baylor University, a M.S. degree from Vanderbilt University and a Masters of Divinity degree from Beeson Divinity School, where she helped found the Women’s Theological Fellowship. In 2001 she was selected by the faculty as the Distinguished Student in recognition of outstanding achievement in scholarship, Christian spirituality and ministry involvement. She received her Doctor of Ministry degree from Memphis Theological Seminary, where her special focus was on healing prayer and its renewal in the twenty-first century church. She continues to be very involved in the holistic healing and health ministry of her church and presently serves as an adjunct professor at Memphis Theological Seminary.
Carol was in the cradle roll department of the church she presently serves and is an active member of the Memphis Ministers Association where she has served as an officer. She is currently a member of the Baptist Center for Ethics and the Arkwings Foundation, an organization for the holistic development of urban youth. She has also served recently on the Foundation Board of the Woman’s Missionary Union and the Samaritan Counseling Center of the Mid-south.
Carol is the wife of Greer Richardson, an orthopedic surgeon. Together they teach a young adult Sunday school class at First Baptist. They have three young adult children, all in the healthcare profession, and are grandparents to three—Edens, Lockard and Annie Caroline.
Carol is intensely interested in spiritual formation, visits a Benedictine monastery as often as she is able, is an avid reader of Christian mystics and suffers with her husband through every baseball season with the Chicago Cubs.
