Joe Brown

Joseph (Joe) Brown was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, and he joined the United States Air Force on January 14, 1978 (the same day he was married). He mentioned this because the Air Force was instrumental in putting him in a place where several significant events occurred in his ministerial journey.

Although he felt like he had a relationship with God before then, things changed dramatically after he was assigned to Ramstein, Germany, in July 1985.
He stayed in a hotel in a small village called Landstuhl, Germany, while he was looking for a permanent place to stay. The first Wednesday night he was there, he walked down the main street of Landstuhl, looking around. He heard music and singing coming from a building and decided to check it out.

When he moved to the side of the building, he saw, in what looked like four-foot-high letters, “Bethel United Pentecostal Church.” Everything he had heard about Pentecostal Churches was negative, so even though it seemed as though the Spirit was moving there that night, he kept on going and did not find a church that night.
Just over two years later, on August 16, 1987, he received the Holy Ghost in that same Bethel United Pentecostal Church. Later, he served in various ministerial leadership roles in churches in Texas and Virginia after that but did not answer the call to preach until he was assigned to Hawaii.

He received his Local License on October 28, 2003, while at New Life United Pentecostal Church. He ultimately received his General License and Ordination while he was serving at Brandon United Pentecostal Church in Brandon, Mississippi. Joe was ordained on his wife’s birthday, April 29, 2013.

While in Brandon, Joe served as the primary Adult Sunday School Teacher and as Assistant Pastor. He retired from the Air Force on February 1, 2008, and subsequently moved to Red Banks, Mississippi, in June 2014, keeping a promise he made to his wife to move back to her home. Since moving to Red Banks, Joe has served in support of the ministry at Heritage Apostolic Church in Holly Springs, Mississippi.