Pastor Owens serves as senior pastor of Michigan Park Christian Church. Reverend Owens is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), having served as the Co-Pastor of the Lake Shore Christian Church in Euclid, OH., Senior Pastor of the Williamsburg Christian Church in Brooklyn, NY for 14 years, associate minister of the St. Phillip’s Christian Church in Brooklyn, NY, General Board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Homeland Ministries Board, Trustee of the National Convocation, and Chair, Northeast Region Commission on Ministry. Reverend and Mrs. Barbara Owens are leaders of “Kingdom Couples” a national marriage support and couples ministry. Reverend Marvin Owens earned his Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, Texas and his Masters of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his Pastoral Counseling Certification from the Blanton-Peale Institute in New York City.

Rev. Dr. Valerie K. Eley is an ordained minister with standing in the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, having served Michigan Park for 12 years as a Minister of Worship, Prayer, Music, Bible Teacher and Ministry Care Consultant. During her tenure at MPCC, she also served as the intermittent Director of Christian Education at Springfield Christian Church (Springfield, Virginia) and the Worship and Liturgy Consultant in Marketing for the publisher of the African American Heritage Hymnal, GIA.
Ordained in the American Baptist Churches (Metro New York), Rev. Eley served the historic Mariners’ Temple Baptist Church as a Minister to Music, Teaching, the Elderly and Development for 9 years prior to moving to Washington, DC to study at the Howard University School of Divinity.

She is the Founding Director of A Movable Feast Ministries (AMFM), a non-denominational, evangelistic mission originating in DC’s North West Corridor with its headquarters on New York City’s Lower East Side. AMFM is dedicated to feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and investigating sustainable options to meet the needs of the homeless while bringing the Kingdom to the world- one person, one family and one nation at a time.

Dr. Eley earned her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, her Master of Divinity from New York Theological Seminary in New York City, and her Doctorate in Ministry from Howard University. If it is the Lord’s will, the former Frederick Douglass Scholar will make a final research trip to Ethiopia in December of 2011 with the subsequent publication of her 20-year investigation of the First Century Origins of Christianity in Ethiopia in the Fall of 2012. “Levite” Eley is single by Design with a sole desire to serve her generation by the will of God.