Topic: "Impetus... The Prelude to Community Transformation"Reverend Richard H. Coleman is Senior Pastor of Wayman AME Church in North Minneapolis and Executive Director of Hope United Community Development Corporation.
Since 2011, he has served as the Executive Director of Hope United Community Development Corporation, a faith-based nonprofit, located in north Minneapolis. Hope United serves primarily as a catalyst for positive change and as a servant leadership organization, helping people of faith, others of good will, and their organizations collaborate on increasing positive community engagement, learning readiness, and economic opportunity.
Richard and his wife, Pastor Mary E. G. Coleman, entered ministry in 1973. They draw on five decades of experience as pastors, non-profit leaders, parents and mentors. They have three daughters and eleven grandchildren.
Richard has preached and taught in many church pulpits in small rural towns, major cities such as Chicago and Minneapolis and internationally in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. He has pastored congregations in Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.
His ministry has transcended the pulpit and the local parish through community leadership in areas of social justice, local and international prayer mobilization, reconciliation and community development.
In 2001, Richard co-led Kingdom Oil, a Christian community foundation whose mission was to network and proclaim the Twin Cities as God’s Kingdom. Through this work, hundreds of ministries and businesses within the state, the nation and the world were directly impacted.
Since 2011, he has served as the Executive Director of Hope United Community Development Corporation, a faith-based nonprofit, located in north Minneapolis. Hope United serves primarily as a catalyst for positive change and as a servant leadership organization, helping people of faith, others of good will, and their organizations collaborate on increasing positive community engagement, learning readiness, and economic opportunity. Among their programs and initiatives are the African American Male Alliance, and the Bridge of Reconciliation, a monthly gathering of men and women of faith of all ethnic backgrounds in an ongoing discussion of racial issues affecting our community.
Richard is deeply involved in an effort to heal the racial wounds affecting our community