Bethel A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles

The Pastor

Biography

The Reverend Kelvin T. Calloway, D.Min, was born in Herlong, California. Educated in the Mobile County (AL) public school system, he received the Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Texas Southern University (Houston, TX) in 1975. One year later, Calloway earned a Master of Business Administration degree (Organizational Behavior and Marketing) from the University of Illinois - Champaign. Further studies resulted in the Master of Divinity degree from Alabama Interdenominational Seminary (Mobile, AL) and a second Master of Divinity degree - and the Doctor of Ministry degree (Ethics and Preaching) from the Southern California School of Theology at Claremont in 1988.

Dr. Calloway has varied business-related experiences. He has been employed as an Industrial Engineer with Ingalls 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, Executive Director of Strongly Oriented For Action (a church sponsored social service agency) La Jolla, California. Additionally, he served as visiting Professor of Preaching and Ethics, St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, and a member of the National Advisory Committee for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Last Acts Campaign.

Dr. Calloway was ordained an itinerant deacon in the Central Alabama Conference of the Ninth Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church in 1984 and an itinerant elder in the Southern California Annual Conference of the Fifth Episcopal District of the A.M.E Church in 1986. He has pastored rural, urban and suburban churches in Alabama, California and Kansas. Dr. Calloway 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.

Presently, Dr. Calloway is the Pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, California. He is married to the former Jacquelyn Langston, and they have four children.

First Lady

Biography

Mrs. Jacquelyn Langston Calloway is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas a child of the parsonage. Her parents are Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W.C. West, pastor of the historic Antioch Baptist Church in Shreveport.  She was educated in Kansas City KS public schools and attended Grambling State University, Grambling Louisiana and Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology.

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History of Bethel A.M.E. Church

Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church met for the first time as an organized mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Connection on Sunday, October 2, 1921 in the Normandie Hall building under the ministry of Major G.W. Prioleau. Major Prioleau was a graduate of Wilberforce University with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He served for many years with dignity and commendation as Chaplain in the U.S. Army and local preacher, pastor, presiding elder in the Methodist Connection. Rev. George W. Prioleau had transferred from the North Ohio Conference and enrolled as an Elder.

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Chronology of Ministers at Bethel A.M.E. Church

The following is a list of Bethel L.A. Pastors, both past and present.

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