Committed to Christ and the Court
Reverend Tracey L. Brown is a native of Newark, New Jersey. She was a member of the Sunlight Missionary Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey where her parents served on the Diaconate Ministry. At the age of thirteen Reverend Brown was called into the ministry and preached her initial sermon. She received her minister’s license through the Sunlight Missionary Baptist Church.
Reverend Brown along with her family moved to Plainfield, New Jersey in 1976, and joined the Community Baptist Church. She was ordained on December 15, 1991, under the recommendation of the Community Baptist Church Presbyter. Reverend Brown served as an Associate Minister of the Rose of Sharon Community Church in Plainfield, New Jersey. She was commissioned and installed as Pastor and Founder of Ruth Fellowship Ministries on April 17, 1999, by her Pastor Bishop M. Laverne Ball, Senior Pastor of the Rose of Sharon Community Church.
Reverend Brown is a graduate of Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ. In October 2008, she had the privilege of being honored and inducted into the Montclair State University Athletic Hall of Fame for Women’s Basketball. Reverend Brown received a Continuing Education Diploma in Pastoral Ministry from the Baptist Theological Seminary of Zimbabwe, Gweru, Zimbabwe. Reverend Brown is an alumnus of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention Pastor’s Excellence Program. She has traveled to Guyana, South Africa, Jamaica, Turkey, Sweden, and Mexico proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus the Christ.
Reverend Brown is a former member of the Plainfield Board of Education and a former Commissioner of the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority. In July of 2012 Reverend Brown became the first woman to be elected Moderator in the One Hundred Seven (107) year history of the Middlesex Central Baptist Association. In November of 2012, Reverend Brown was elected to a Four‐Year Term as Councilwoman At‐large in the City of Plainfield. In 2021, she became the first Black woman to serve as New Jersey State Police chaplain.
Reverend Brown is dedicated to the cause of Christ, which includes helping to improve the lives of those in her community and throughout the world. Reverend Brown is committed to the words found in St. John 9:4 “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.”
