[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 136 (Thursday, October 11, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO REV. PORTER S. BROWN, SR.

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                        HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR.

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 11, 2001

  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I would like to call the attention of my 
colleagues a friend and constituent of the Sixth District of New Jersey 
celebrating twenty years of pastoral service to the Baptist church.
  Born the youngest son of the late Johnnie and Flora Brown, Porter 
Brown entered this world on December 6, 1947. He grew up in Atlantic 
City and became heavily active in the church early on.
  As a child he was involved in the Junior Ushers, Church School, Youth 
Choir, and Baptist Training. He graduated from Atlantic City High 
School in 1965 and enrolled in Lincoln University in September 1966 to 
study literature. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Literature in 
English in May 1970.
  He took on a variety of educational teaching offers after college 
from teaching at River Middle School in Red Bank to becoming the 
program director of the Red Bank Community Center. In 1978, Mr. Brown 
transferred and began teaching at Asbury Park High School, where he 
taught for twenty years before retiring in June of 2000.
  In 1973, Mr. Brown joined the Faith Baptist Tabernacle. During this 
time, he served as the chairman of the Shore Community Day Care Center 
Building Committee and also as a church school teacher. He was ordained 
as an assistant to the pastor in January 1980 and preached at churches 
throughout New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania, and continued to teach 
bible studies through the Monmouth Bible Institute.
  In September 1981, Mr. Brown received the great honor of becoming the 
4th Pastor of the Faith Baptist Tabernacle church. Pastor Brown has 
served the people of his community and has continued to see his church 
grow larger and larger with each passing year during his tenure. He is 
being honored on this day for his loyalty to his church, community, the 
educational system and the family.
  He has been blessed with a wife, Elder, two sons, two daughters, and 
seven grandchildren. On this day we celebrate the life and journey of a 
man that has given so much back to what his community, church, and life 
has given him.

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