Reverend John Roger Brown Associate Pastor

The Reverend John Roger Brown, Sr. is the former pastor of County Line United Methodist Church and is a part-time faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and Religion of Morehouse College. He is well trained and is known for his teaching, preaching, and administrative abilities. He was born and reared and received his formal education in Hogansville and LaGrange, Georgia.

Reverend Brown is a multi-talented, gifted and well-trained man of God. He holds a Bachelor of Science in education from Albany State University, Albany, Georgia; Master of Education in counseling from Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; Master of Divinity in ethics and practical theology from Howard University, Washington, D.C.; and a Master of Sacred Theology in missions and practical theology from Yale University, New Haven Connecticut. He also studied abroad several summers in special programs at the Ecumenical Institute under the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland and at Vatican in sessions with the Pope and staff in Rome, Italy. From September 1, 1997 through December 20, 1997, Reverend Brown lived in community of the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland with persons from fifty (50) countries around the world and completed an intensive post-graduate program in ecumenical theology through the University of Geneva, World Council of Churches and the Ecumenical Institute.

After receiving his call to preach in November 1978 and completing the United Methodist Church process for the ordination of deacon (1981) and elders orders (1984), he served as the pastor at churches in Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. He has preached in churches in Africa, Europe, and across the United States. His ministerial experiences also include political and social action ministries in New Haven, Connecticut. He and his wife Cynthia were missionaries in residence to Zaire, Africa in 1982. Additionally, in 1999, Reverend Brown served as a short-term missionary in Zimbabwe, Africa.

Reverend Brown has traveled extensively in the United States and around the world. He is well experienced in pastoral ministry and in ministry beyond the local church. His other experiences include: university professor; research associate; teacher and counselor in the public school systems in Georgia and Washington, D.C.; administrative positions in the private/business sectors and with the state of Georgia; and for more than ten (10) years, he was executive director of a multi-national, multi-state, multi-million dollar federally funded training program, with a staff of more than 100 across seven states.

Over the years, Reverend Brown has earned a reputation for extensive involvement in evangelism, church planting and revitalization, stewardship, missions, Christian unity, social concerns, research and church construction. He built and consecrated a 2.5 million dollar worship and ministry center November, 1999 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Moreover, Reverend Brown and Dr. John Stanfield completed an oral history research project on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 2001. He also completed research on “The Effectiveness of Supportive Services” in the highway construction industry and researched and published a standardized procedural manual for on-the job training for the Federal Highway Administration. Reverend Brown was cited among Outstanding Young Men of America, 1983, and is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.