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 Bishop Carlton Theophilus Brown
is the Senior Pastor of Bethel Gospel Assembly, Inc., in Harlem, New York.
His secular training led him to the fulfillment of his dream in becoming a
teacher with the New York City Board of Education. He served in that capacity
from 1978 until the Lord called him into full-time ministry in October of 1987.
Bishop Brown’s ministry has opened the doors for extensive travel throughout
the world. He has served in short term missions’ assignments and has been a
conference and crusade speaker overseas in Azerbaijan, Russia, Cuba, India,
Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, South Africa, Venezuela, Jamaica, St. Vincent,
Trinidad, Barbados and Aruba, as well as around the United States.
As a visionary Pastor, he founded Bethel Gospel Assembly Ministries which
includes six churches in Transkei, South Africa. In addition he has founded
Bethel Gospel Global Assemblies under which seven churches have been planted
with locations in the Bronx, NY; Hackensack, NJ; Paterson, NJ, Stockbridge GA
and Norfolk, VA. Bethel Gospel Global Assemblies also provides oversight to
over 25 ministries in the Caribbean, South Africa, Florida and Harlem, New
York. The Bethel Community Development Corporation (CDC) was established under
Bishop Brown’s leadership to serve as the umbrella organization for future
for-profit initiatives. In October 2004 the Northeast Regional Great Commission
Conference was inaugurated to equip leadership and laity of the local church to
transform their urban and global community through their commitment to fulfill
“The Great Commission”, CCAI, Summer Youth Camp, Caribbean GCC, and St. Marten
GCC. He has expanded Bethel’s short-term missions’ involvement to include
medical missions to countries such as Venezuela, Nigeria, Santo Domingo and
South Africa. He also launched three full-time missionaries in the last seven
years to South Africa, St. Vincent and Jamaica; Dr. Ruth Onukwue, Rev. Cecilio
Mitchell, Pastor Ridley Buchanan respectively and he also gives oversight to
several churches in Venezuela.
In January 2006, he established the Bethel Gospel Assembly Ministry Trust in
Northwest Province, South Africa. Bethel also dedicated its 364 acre Harmony
Estates Project in South Africa which houses a church, Christian boarding
school, Youth Resource Center, and skills training program. Bishop Brown also
oversees a Christian School and a recent church plant in Jamaica, West Indies
with plans to launch other educational institutions with the help of God. In
response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, he established the
Katrina Strategic Action Commission (K-SAC), a two year commission to
strategically reach out to those in the Gulf Coast states who desperately need
our help. In 2006, the state-of-the-art Becoming God’s Answer Bookstore was
completed and dedicated. Additionally a 2000-seat sanctuary is being built on
the Fifth Avenue side of the existing city square block of property and is
slated to be dedicated in 2010. Bishop Brown can be heard on Bethel’s weekly
radio broadcast: Becoming God’s Answer, each Sunday at 7:00 a.m. on WLIB 1190
in the New York tri-state area and also each Sunday evening in Greenville,
South Carolina on WELP 1360.
Besides giving leadership to Bethel Gospel Assembly, Inc., and its affiliated
ministries, Bishop Brown currently serves on the board of Concerts of Prayer of
Greater New York, Nyack College Manhattan Center, and the Advisory Board of
North General Hospital. He is also a Clergy Liaison with the New York City
Police Department. Additionally he is the Chairman of the Board of Beth-Hark
Christian Care Center and General Superintendent and Board Chairman of Urban
Global Mission Alliance, a ministry geared towards promoting the partnership of
Churches committed to fulfilling the Great Commission and founded by his
predecessor, Bishop Dr. Ezra Nehemiah Williams. Bishop Brown received a BA
degree in History from Herbert Lehman College and later pursued graduate work
at New York University and at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – New
York Center. He also holds a Master’s Degree from Alliance Theological Seminary
in New York.
Bishop Brown is the author of “Till Death do we S.H.O.P. – Taking hold of a
ministry approach and presentation that is making a difference in a spiritually
indifferent world. Bishop Brown resides in New York City with his lovely wife,
Pastor Lorna Iona Bell Brown. They have two adult children, Justin Obinne and
Carla Priscilla. |
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