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Several happy International Studies Academy students and a few lucky teachers had past Wednesday at noon the opportunity to meet Reverend Amos Brown in I.S.A.s library to thank him for the Passport Grant funding first time passports for students and faculty – what a generous and exciting gift for our youngsters soon to be traveling the world!

I.S.A. is very grateful for your support, Reverend Amos Brown!

As a parent I enjoyed Reverend Amos Brown’s encouraging and insightful words to the students and I learned quiet a bit this afternoon too – a lot of food for thoughts.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
–John F. Kennedy

Dr. Amos Cleophilus Brown, Sr.

CALIFORNIA

A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Brown has been Pastor of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church since 1976. As a scholar, theologian, preacher and social activist, he has maintained a marriage of piety and political action in his ministry.

Under his leadership, Third Baptist Church has created an After-School Academic enrichment program (Back on Track) in partnership with Temple Emanuel Congregation, the Charles A. Tindley Academy of Music; sponsored more African refugees than any local congregation in the nation and sponsored 80 children from Tanzania to receive heart surgery in the United States. He led the Bay Area in raising $68,000 for the Somalian Relief Effort in 1984, led in founding the Black American Response to the African Crisis, which raised $300,000 for the Ethiopian Famine crises, and led an airlift to Ethiopia under the auspices of the National Baptist Convention.

In addition to his pastoral responsibilities, he has served as a member of the governing board of San Francisco Community College, National Chairman of the National Baptist Commission on Civil Rights and Human services and has served as a San Francisco Supervisor. Rev. Brown currently is the president of the San Francisco Chapter of the NAACP and serves as Commissioner with the City and County of San Francisco Housing Authority.