Neville Callam
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Neville Callam was elected General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance [1] by the BWA General Council during its meeting in Accra, Ghana, West Africa, on July 6, 2007. A Jamaican, Callam was a BWA vice president from 2000 to 2005, and has served on numerous committees, commissions and workgroups of the BWA, including the General Council and Executive Committee.
Callam was president of the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU)[2] between 1985 and 1987 and from 2000 to 2002, and has held all senior positions in the Jamaican convention, including that of General Treasurer and Acting General Secretary. He is a former vice president of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship.
A media manager, he founded, managed, and chaired the board of the religious radio station, The Breath of Change (TBC FM), was a founding director of the National Religious Media Company of Jamaica which operates LOVE FM and LOVE TV, and was chairman of the board of the Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica [3], a public statutory organization. He is also a former chairman of the Media Commission of the JBU which has responsibility for the denomination’s radio ministry, website, newspaper, and all publications.
An educator, Callam taught at the United Theological College of the West Indies, the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, Jamaica Theological Seminary, and as a guest lecturer at Barbados Baptist College. He sat on the University Council of Jamaica, the country’s accreditation body for colleges and universities.
Callam has authored five books and has also published articles in academic journals as well as several book chapters. He has spoken at fora, symposia, seminars and workshops in many countries.
An ordained minister since 1977, Callam gave his life to the Lord in his teen years and grew up in a strong Baptist family where his father was a church deacon and his mother was involved in various church ministries. Callam has served the Grace/Mineral Heights Circuit and the Tarrant/Balmagie Circuit of churches in Jamaica as senior pastor.
He is a graduate of the United Theological College of the West Indies, the University of the West Indies, Harvard Divinity School, and is a specialist in Christian ethics and theology.
Callam is married to Dulcie, his wife of more than 30 years, and they have two adult children, son, Gairy, and daughter, Diedre.
