Reverend Walter A. Jones, Sr. (1924-2017) became active in the church at a young age. He started as a Sunday School Teacher and was elevated to the Superintendent of the Sunday School. He was a World War II Veteran with an Honorable Discharge. When he moved his family to Hollis, there were no churches in the neighborhood and he filled this void by organizing Bible study in his home. He was the Senior Pastor and organizer of the Majority Baptist Church in Saint Albans, New York. It was in his home, on October 6, 1960, where the Majority Baptist Church was born with six women and thirteen children. The church was named Majority Baptist Church in recognition of the church in Spartanburg, South Carolina where Walter Jones accepted the Lord as a young boy. He completed his ministerial studies at the New York Theological Seminary of New York City and the Bethel Bible Institute under the late Bishop Roderick Caesar, Sr. He also completed Bible Study Classes at the Bryant Memorial Baptist Church under the late Reverend Dr. Katherine Brazley, and was ordained in 1958. 

For over 49 years, Majority has been known to be a place of opportunity and a learning institution. He was the former President of the Baptist Minister’s Conference of Queens and Vicinity; a member of the Baptist Minister’s Conference of Greater New York and Vicinity; the Eastern Baptist Association; the Minister’s Conference of Hampton University; the Empire Convention of New York State and the National Baptist Convention; a member of the American Baptist Churches Metropolitan New York and served as “Area Minister of Queens” under the Reverend Carl E. Flemister, then Regional Executive Minister. After 47 years of Pastoral Ministry, on May 25, 2008, Reverend Walter A. Jones, Sr. retired as Senior Pastor and officially became Pastor Emeritus of the Majority Baptist Church.

Doris Jones was a member of Majority Baptist Church for 55 years. She was a member of the Missionary Circle, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia Ministry, Willing Workers, Nurses Unit, Sunday School Dept. and Women’s Fellowship. She was a “Block Watcher” and also served as Den Mother for Troop #279.