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Reverend Dr. Kelvin T. Calloway was born in Herlong, California. He was educated in the Mobile County Public School System, Mobile, Alabama. He received the Bachelors of Business Administration degree in Management and Marketing from Texas Southern University, a Masters of Business Administration in Organization Behavior and Marketing from the University of Illinois, a Masters of Divinity degree from the Alabama Interdenominational Seminary, and the Doctorate of Ministry degree in Ethics and Preaching from Claremont School of Theology.
Dr. Calloway has varied business-related experiences. He has been employed as an Industrial Engineer with Ingall’s Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, a Financial Services Representative with the Metropolitan Insurance Company, a Commercial Investment Specialist with Century 21 Real Estate Corporation, Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Business Administration, S.D. Bishop State Community College, Mobile, Alabama, a Realty Specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Executive Director of Strongly Oriented For Action (a church sponsored social service agency) La Jolla, California.
Dr. Calloway was ordained an itinerant deacon in the Central Alabama Conference of the Ninth District of the A.M.E. Church in 1984 and an itinerant elder in the Southern California Annual Conference of the Fifth District of the A.M.E. Church in 1986. He has pastored rural, urban and suburban churches in Alabama, California and Kansas. He has served as Visiting Professor of Preaching and Ethics, St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, a member of the Midwest Bioethics Center, Kansas City, Missouri, and a member of the National Advisory Committee for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Last Acts Campaign. Dr. Calloway has served as a member of the Connectional Strategic Planning Core Team of the A.M.E. Church, the Revision and the Compilation Committees of the 2004 General Conference of the A.M.E. Church. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Among them are Outstanding Young Men of America, 1979, Who's Who of La Jolla, California 1989, and the Wilshire Preaching Award, Claremont, California, 1988.
Dr. Calloway also serves as the Dean of the Southern California Conference Board of Examiners, and he is a candidate for Bishop in 2008. He is married to the former Jacquelyn Langston, and they have four children. |
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