Joined Gateway Staff: 2007

Areas of Ministry: Relational Care ministers to people who have experienced a life event: having a baby or adopting a child, hospitalization, critical illness diagnosis, death of a loved one or assuming primary care for a loved one. We feel it is a privilege to minister love and encouragement to people during difficult life events and delight in celebrating a new family member.

Family: I’ve been married to my high school sweetheart for 29 years—Bill Brown. He has been a successful, freelance professional artist in DFW for 31 years and has always served bi-vocationally with me in ministry assignments. We have one daughter, Frances Anne, who is 10. God gave us such an amazing and miraculous gift when He sent Frances into our lives.

Saved: Raised in an incredible pastor’s home and came to the Lord at an early age. I’m a third generation minister/pastor. Both of my sisters serve in pastoral roles as well. Bill was also raised in a parsonage so both of us have been blessed with an incredible heritage of faith. Bill and I were both raised in the Foursquare movement.

Education: Graduated from Life Pacific (one of the Foursquare movement’s theological training colleges)

Previous Lines of Work: Have been serving in vocational ministry since I graduated from Life Pacific, except for a 4-year assignment in the corporate arena as a Customer Service Manager while also serving on a church planting team.

One of the Things I Find Most Fascinating: How God continually directs our lives toward His destiny and purpose, even with all the events and circumstances which, at points, seem to be “out of sync.”

FAVORITE
Books: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronté; Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma by Jane Austen; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott—I love so many of the classic love stories.
Food: Asian
Snack Food: Almonds
Movies: The Way We Were; Gone With The Wind; Anna and the King; Castaway; Indiana Jones series; Star Wars; It’s a Wonderful Life
TV Shows: Antiques Roadshow; History Detectives
Music: anything classical, plus Jazz, particularly Richard Eillott and The Rippingtons
Actors: Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant and Harrison Ford
Time of Day: Evening
Season: Fall
Place in the World: Texas!—What other answer would a native Texas give??? We especially love the Texas Hill Country.
Place to Pray: Though I cannot go often, my favorite place to pray is at the cemetery in my hometown where my mom’s earthly shell is buried. I feel so close to eternity there—my grandparents and Bill’s dad are buried there also. They are precious people who are part of the “great cloud of witnesses” who paved the way for us and who now spur us on in kingdom efforts by joining their faith with ours. It reminds me just how fleeting our lives are—only the things we do in the name of the Lord and our relationships transfer into eternity with us. It keeps my prayers very focused on what really matters and, hopefully, makes me live my life differently.
Recreational Activities/Hobbies: Playing the piano; walking/hiking; sewing; playing with Frances!
Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 4; Isaiah 61
Sports Team: NONE!
Sport: (to watch) Ice skating

LEAST FAVORITE
Food: Anchovies
Snack Food: Sweet
Time of Day: Mid-afternoon
Season: Summer in Texas
Place in the World: Los Angeles
Sports Team: ALL!

Best Thing Someone Said to You: “With this ring, I thee wed” and “Mommy, I love you!”

Life Motto: Always keep eternal perspective in focus.

Three People I’d Like to Meet: The Apostle Paul, my great-grandfather Sanderson, Aimee Semple McPherson

My Heroes: My mom and dad

One of My Greatest Experiences with God: Walking through a very tentative pregnancy where God brought such miraculous intervention followed by giving birth to our beautiful daughter.

Most People Don’t Know This About Me: Bill and I spent a month going to Washington D.C. and back on a motorcycle for our honeymoon.