My Greatest Desire and Joy

For over the past 15 years, I have served as lay preacher, as a Baptist pastor, and now as a Missionary/Evangelist in the Chattanooga and north Georgia area. My greatest desire and joy in serving my Lord Jesus Christ is to preach and to teach God’s word so that people might come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and walk daily with Him.

My Story

I was born in Chattanooga, TN. I was raised in nearby town of Trenton, Ga. by my parents James and Brenda Brown. After graduating from Northwest Georgia High School in 1991, I attended Brevard College in Brevard, North Carolina for two years (1991-1993). While at Brevard, I played basketball on scholarship for the Brevard College Tornadoes. After graduating from Brevard, I transferred to the Southern College of Technology where I walked on to the Southern Tech Runnin’ Hornet Basketball team and played for my final two years of eligibility.

It was during my Junior year at Southern Tech that my life began to spiral out of control. In a moment of sobering personal realization and conviction of the Holy Spirit as I was driving down I-75 toward Atlanta, I cried out God and asked him to save me from my sinful condition. At that very moment, God reached in to that moving car and changed my life forever.

In 1998, I moved back to my hometown of Trenton, GA from living in Atlanta for a few years and married a beautiful woman named Carey Green. While attending Temple Baptist Church, God began to work in my heart through the powerful and helpful preaching of the Word of God by Dr. Ken Trivette, my pastor. On July 22 2001, I surrendered to the call to preach. After preaching for several years in rescue missions, jails, retirement centers, and various area churches, I was called to be the pastor of Gethsemane Baptist Church (which was later reorganized into Bethany Baptist Church) in 2007. In 2017, after 10 years of pastoral ministry, I resigned as pastor to focus on evangelism and missionary endeavors.