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Ron Brown is the New Southern California Teen Challenge Director

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Ron Brown is the New Southern California Teen Challenge Director

Good afternoon, friends,

Several months ago, we were all deeply saddened at the sudden passing of SoCal’s Teen Challenge Executive Director Dennis Griffith. Soon after, we began seeking God for wisdom and direction for the future.

A Teen Challenge Executive Director Search Committee was formed, chaired by Assistant Superintendent Gordon Houston, to formulate an appropriate selection process. This committee has received resumes from across the nation, and diligently carried out due process with each candidate. After four months, they unanimously agreed that God had prepared one individual for leading Southern California’s Teen Challenge in the years ahead, and recommended him for selection by the Board of Directors.

It’s my joy to share with you that Ron Brown has been selected by the Southern California Teen Challenge Board of Directors, which includes the District Executive Presbytery and the Teen Challenge Executive Committee, as the new Southern California Teen Challenge Director!

More than 20 years ago, while serving bi-vocationally as a Deputy Sheriff and associate pastor of his local church, God called Ron and his wife, Demetra, to minister to those bound by drugs and alcohol. This led him to LA’s Skid row and ministry to the homeless and addicted, and then, most recently, for the past 8 years, as Director of the Orange County Teen Challenge Center.

Ron will assume his duties immediately and provide direction and leadership for the nine (9) Teen Challenge Centers in Southern California. His extensive experience has equipped him in the areas of leadership development and team building, and his heart and passion is to speak with a compelling vision that will further awaken the enormous potential for Teen Challenge’s future.

May God bless and strengthen Ron’s hand as SoCal’s new Executive Director of Teen Challenge!

Blessings,

Ray Rachels
District Superintendent

Ron Brown

Ron Brown faithfully served our nation for 10 years in the United States Air Force and served his community for 5 years as a Deputy Sheriff. He has served a number of churches as worship leader, youth pastor, assistant pastor and associate pastor. For 8 years he served the Los Angeles Mission as a Chaplain, Program Director of its Long Beach outreach, Director of Urban impact, and as Executive Director.

Ron is an ordained minister who currently serves as Missions Pastor of the 3,000 member Mission Eben-Ezer Family Church in Carson, California, where Dr. Isaac Canales is the Sr. Pastor. This is the fastest growing multicultural church in the South Bay. In his capacity as missions pastor, he oversees 24 missionaries stationed around the world who are supported by the Mission Eben-Ezer Family Church. He also is a worship leader and has recorded 2 CD’s of anointed contemporary Christian music that he wrote and produced. Ron also currently serves as Director of the Orange County headquarters of Southern California Teen Challenge, an international ministry that provides a year long structured Christian discipleship program for those addicted to drugs and alcohol. A main focus of the Orange County ministry he oversees is to provide comprehensive outreach and prevention programs for inner-city youth at risk of gang affiliation and drug abuse. In addition to these current ministry activities, he is a sought after speaker in a number of churches around the Southern California area.

Ron is married to the beautiful Demetra Ann Brown, is the father of 2 daughters and has three grandchildren.