The Reverend Elijah Llewellyn McDavid III is a passionate disciple, dynamic preacher, and cultural architect. Since September 2020, Pastor McDavid has proudly served as Senior Pastor of the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Minneapolis.

Under Pastor McDavid’s leadership, the church has grown from less than 500 to more than 2,000 members with the addition of 20 new ministries. Multi-million dollar renovation projects have been completed to restore the sanctuary, build a new Music & Multimedia Suite, and open a youth center providing culturally informed programming, mental health care, and worship opportunities for all ages. Fellowship stands as a community anchor in the McKinley neighborhood serving thousands of families through its grocery distributions, literacy coaching, vaccination clinics, HBCU tours, revivals and block par