Our Pastors

Pastor Ralph Galloway

Rev. Ralph Galloway is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota is co-pastor of Kwanzaa Community Church. Rev. Galloway is a 1976 graduate of the University of Minnesota, holding a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. His Master of Divinity was completed in 1979 at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Counseling. In 1990, he earned his Doctor of Ministry Degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta with an emphasis in Community Organizing. In addition to his position at Kwanzaa, Rev. Galloway has served as Executive Director of Hospitality House Boys and Girls Clubs, Inc. in Minneapolis, as Associate Pastor of Zion Baptist Church, also in Minneapolis, as a Community Organizer at the Urban Training Organization of Atlanta, Inc. and as the Pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church USA in Wilson, North Carolina.

Pastor Alika Galloway
Rev. Alika P. Galloway is co-pastor of Kwanzaa Community Church. Rev. Alika holds a Master of Divinity degree in Womanist Theology and World Religions. Rev. Galloway is qualified to work with Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, a Spiritual Director, and a consultant for the Health Ministries Division and the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Benjamin E. Mays Fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education. She has served for three years on the Urban Health Task Force for the City of Minneapolis and is the creator and Executive Director of the Sidewalks Saving Lives HIV/AIDS prevention arts initiative. Nationally known as a Womanist Scholar and expert in health disparities impacting African American females, she is currently enrolled in the Virginia Union Seminaries Doctorate of Ministry program and will complete her dissertation addressing the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the African American female community in May 2012.