Neville Callam is a former General
Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. Born in Jamaica to a family of committed Baptist Christians, he discovered his own Christian faith while in
his teens.
Callam was educated at
the United
Theological College of the West Indies, the University of the West
Indies,
and Harvard Divinity School and was ordained
in 1977.
In his pastoral ministry,
Callam has served as assistant pastor in the East Queen Street Baptist Circuit
and senior pastor of the Grace/Mineral Heights and the Tarrant/Balmagie
Circuits.
He is also an academic
specializing in Christian ethics and theology and has taught at United
Theological College of the West Indies, Jamaica Theological Seminary, and Jamaica Institute of
Management. He has also served as researcher for the University Council of
Jamaica, the accrediting body for colleges and universities in Jamaica.
He has written or edited
eight books and published several journal articles and book chapters. He has
been a facilitator at forums, symposiums, seminars and workshops in more than
seventy countries.
Callam has also enjoyed
a career in the media. He created and ran The Breath of Change (TBC FM), a
religious radio station, and was a founding director of the National Religious
Media Company of Jamaica, the operator of LOVE FM and LOVE TV. He has also
served as Chairman of the Board of the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica [1].
Callam has a long career
in the service of the Jamaica
Baptist Union. He has held the positions of chairman of the media commission,
general treasurer, acting general secretary, and president, serving two terms, 1985-87
and 2000-02. He has been vice president of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship and from 2000
until 2005 he was vice president of the Baptist World Alliance, where he served on many
of its committees, commissions, and workgroups, including the general council
and executive committee. He was General Secretary of the BWA from 2007-2017.
Callam has been married
for over forty years and has two children and two grandchildren.
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