Rev. Kelvin Calloway, D.Min.
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Posted on Fri, Jun 27, 2008
All the Way with Dr. Kelvin T. Calloway – Fifth District Candidate for Bishop
Focused, Futuristic, Faith and Fair. Those four words that describe Dr. Kelvin T. Calloway, Candidate for Bishop from the Fifth Episcopal District. His entire life has been dedicated to serving God and building on our legacy of ministry within and beyond the walls of the church.
Dr. Calloway is presently the senior pastor of Second A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles, California, and has pastored suburban churches in Alabama, California and Kansas. He has achieved educationally, receiving a Bachelor of Science (Business Administration) degree from Texas Southern University (Houston, TX) in 1975. One year later, Calloway earned a Master of Business Administration (Organizational Behavior and Marketing) degree from the University of Illinois - Champaign. Further studies resulted in the Master of Divinity degree from Alabama Interdenominational Seminary (Mobile, AL) and a second MDiv - along with the Doctor of Ministry (Ethics and Preaching) degree - from the Southern California School of Theology at Claremont in 1988.
Before going into the ministry, Dr. Calloway was employed in various business capacities, including serving as an Industrial Engineer, Financial Services Representative, and Commercial Investment. He has provided leadership academically, serving as an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Business Administration, S. D. Bishop State Community College, and as a visiting Professor of Preaching and Ethics, St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri.
In discussing his platform for service in the Episcopacy, Reverend Kelvin T. Calloway Sr., believes that the ministries of the African Methodist Episcopal Church should focus on three issues:
(1) bringing life to our ministries on the local and connectional levels;
(2) developing relevance and visibility back to the Connectional Church; and
(3) making the Episcopacy a factor inside and outside of the Connection.
"As a Bishop of our church, I would work with you to make our system supportive not only from the bottom up, but from the top down as well. The Presiding Prelate in the present age must connect with and support our ministries at the local and conference levels in such a way that the AME Bishop is a factor in spiritual, political and economic affairs just as much as other denominational leaders are in those matters."
Dr. Calloway will also work to strengthen the future viability of African Methodism. His work on the Connectional Strategic Planning Committee, as well as his years as an instructor at colleges and seminaries, has given him the depth and perspective to lead our church through 21st century challenges."Richard Allen, Sarah Allen, Morris Brown, Jarena Lee, Daniel Alexander Payne, Henry McNeal Turner - we bear a responsibility to ensure that the instrument of service to God and humanity that our forebearers left to us remains in place for future generations."
"As a Bishop of our church, I would work with you to make our system supportive not only from the bottom up, but from the top down as well. The Presiding Prelate in the present age must connect with and support our ministries at the local and conference levels in such a way that the AME Bishop is a factor in spiritual, political and economic affairs just as much as other denominational leaders are in those matters."
Dr. Calloway will also work to strengthen the future viability of African Methodism. His work on the Connectional Strategic Planning Committee, as well as his years as an instructor at colleges and seminaries, has given him the depth and perspective to lead our church through 21st century challenges."Richard Allen, Sarah Allen, Morris Brown, Jarena Lee, Daniel Alexander Payne, Henry McNeal Turner - we bear a responsibility to ensure that the instrument of service to God and humanity that our forebearers left to us remains in place for future generations."
Please see Rev. Calloway's website: http://www.callowayin08.com/
