Storms! (ePub)

Reverend Anthony Kelley, B.A., M.Div., is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and the visionary organizer, retired senior pastor and teacher of the Greater First Church Baptist in Baker, Louisiana. He is also the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Reclamation and Restoration Ministries Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity, which was organized in 1996 in Gary, Indiana. As the founder of the Prison Ministry and Criminal Justice Commission of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., Kelley served as its executive secretary for seventeen years (1994-2011) in four (4) presidential administrations. He currently is the grants administrator for the RRM Inc.'s Ready4Life Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Project in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Ready4Life Project is supported by a $1.5 million dollar grant award no. 15PBJA22GG04754 by the US Department of Justice (CVIPI) Violence Reduction, Community Trust, and Public Safety Initiative. Kelley received his bachelor of arts degree from Trinity College, Deerfield, Illinois (1977), and the master of divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary/Northwestern University Campus, Evanston, Illinois (1980). Kelley has studied business administration at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, African American literature at the Graduate School of Northwestern University, sociology at Roosevelt University and Loyola University of Chicago, social ethics at Chicago Theological Seminary, and exegesis of Greek New Testament studies at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He was licensed to preach in 1971 by the Centennial Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side and ordained in 1978 by the First Baptist Church on Chicago's West Side. He is the former senior pastor of the Mt. Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, succeeding Dr. T. J. Jemison, former president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Kelley faithfully served other churches to

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