Reverend Dr Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow

New National Christian Leadership Movement President & CEO

Founder & President of T.O.P.S. The Ordinary People Society

Pastor Kenneth Glasgow an advocate for harm reduction, prison reform, and restoration of rights and opportunities for formerly incarcerated people, is the Founder/President of The Ordinary People Society. His direction of TOPS provides rehabilitation/habilitation to formerly incarcerated while creating programs that target the youth before they reach the Criminal Justice System.

Pastor Glasgow has gained the support of the Alabama Department of Corrections by allowing him to administer programs in Alabama prisons and jails. He is the Convener/Co-Convener of the National Criminal Justice Coalition, and the Co-chairman of the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People Family Movement, State Partner for the New Bottom Line Campaign with DPA, Chaplain for The Second Congressional District, and Vice-Chairman of the Houston County A.D.C.

Instrumental in registering over 120,000 formerly incarcerated to vote in the State of Alabama, he is the first to win a lawsuit where people convicted with felonies never lose their voting rights, incarcerated or not.

Education 

A.P. Clay Christian Theological College

Doctrine of Theology, Theology

2005-2009

Bethany Bible College

Doctrine of Divinity, Divinity

2003 – 2007

Accomplishments

  • Establishment of T.O.P.S. The Ordinary People Society and T.O.P.S Moma Tina’s Mission house has fed over 300,000 people in the past 15 years

  • Advocated and participated in the changing of 17 laws in Alabama
    3 laws in Georgia, 2 in Florida and 1 in West Virginia.

  • Hillary Clinton acknowledges Pastor Glasgow’s role as Vice-Chair of the Houston County Alabama ADC) at the Alabama Democratic Conference, October 2015

  • His abilities to work for criminal justice reform were highlighted in his strategic work in the passage of the Sentencing Guidelines through the Alabama State Legislature in 2006.

  • Project South B.A.M., FOCAL, Bryan Stevenson- Certified Paralegal, and various Criminal Justice trainings.

  Awards 

  • Successfully won a settlement with the state of Alabama to allow felons to vote from jails and prison under the Moral Turpitude Act

  • Man of the Year (Dothan, AL. 2004-2005)

  • Fighter of the Flame award (Selma, AL 2008 Bridge Crossing Jubilee)

  • The Lyndon B. Johnson Political Freedom Award (Alabama Democratic Convention 2008).

Programs and Projects

  • The Criminal Rehabilitation and Reintegration Program, Grassroots Organizing, Early Intervention and Mentoring Program  

  • Drug Prevention and Addiction Assistance Program, After School Program, Adult Literacy Program  

  • Hunger and Homelessness Prevention, Mentoring Program/ Big Brother Big Sister – Togetherhood, 

  • City Prayer Watch, Counseling Ministries, Youth Ministry, Widows’ Ministry, Elderly Project,  

  • Residential Discipleship Programs, Tent Revivals, Prison/Jail Ministry, Ex-Felons Voters Rights Restored, Domestic Violence Counseling, Radio Ministry on WQLS 1210 AM, and Thedotonline.com News Website