A Lady of Service

Aware of the importance of Civil Rights, Mrs. Brown marched in Selma and worked in an Exchange Program to foster better understanding between northern white and southern black students, demonstrating a calm but consistent devotion to service of God and others.

Mrs. Brown is widely hailed as the best fundraiser in TBC. Whatever committee she joins or task she assumes will achieve excellence. In 2001, she chaired the 150th Church Anniversary Committee, the crowning moment of which was the 150th Church Anniversary Gala at which President William Jefferson Clinton was the keynote speaker. As Chairperson of the Scholarship Committee she has raised over $100,000.00 to assists young college aspirants in attaining their education.

One summer she was asked to organize the Third Baptist Summer School program to benefit black students after the public schools laid-off a disproportionate number of black teachers. This program, BIBBS (Being Black is Being Smart) had become one of the long running academic institutions in the community.

Most recently, in what started out as a church evangelistic effort was elevated to a Bay Area community effort to speak to the escalating violence between Asian and African Americans, by creating a venue where both communities could become aware of the many positive programs such as Back on Track that are made available by other institutions both religious and secular that aim to help parents tutor and mentor their children toward academic and civic excellence.