Former InterPastor and Wife Celebrate Fifty Years Of Marriage and Ministry

Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Brown (Joy) will celebrate their
50th Wedding Anniversary on August 16, 2019. They were married on August 16,
1969, and began serving on the staff of Millbrook Baptist Church in Raleigh,
N.C. the very next month, in September 1969. So literally, this is the 50th
anniversary of their “marriage and ministry” together. Dr. Brown served as
interim pastor at the First Baptist Church in North Myrtle Beach from
2015–2017.

The Browns met when they were in high school, but they
did not begin dating until they were students at Limestone College in Gaffney.
Wayne, the son of JM and Minnie Williams Brown, was born in Spartanburg, but moved
with his parents when he was three months old to where he “grew up” in his
hometown of Blacksburg. Joy was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to
Gaffney when she was five years old with her parents, James and Mary Clary, and
her younger sister, Lynn.

South Carolina Baptist churches have been-and always
will be-very special to the Browns. Wayne made his profession of faith, was
baptized and later was married and ordained as a Minister of the Gospel at the
First Baptist Church of Blacksburg. Joy made her profession of faith and was
baptized at the East Gaffney Baptist Church in Gaffney. Years later, Joy’s
family began a mission church, sponsored by the Temple Baptist Church of
Gaffney, in the basement of their home, and that little mission church of dedicated
members became Montgomery Street Baptist Church and

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