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Rev. Kelly Brown

Rev. Kelly Brown brings many gifts and experiences to his role as director for Congregational Vitality.  He has served the East Ohio Conference in many capacities:

• Member of the conference New Church Start team
• Member of, and assistant facilitator for, the New Church Start Academy
• Church Growth with Integrity consultant
• Member of the conference Board of Camps and Retreat Ministries, where he served on the executive committee and as chairperson of both the program committee and the vision task group 
• Member of various district strategy teams
• Member of various ordained ministry district committees

Brown’s involvement with the East Ohio Conference began at a young age when he attended Camp Wanake. As a teen, he served on the Conference Council on Youth Ministries (CCYM). Then as a young adult he returned to Camp Wanake as a member of the staff.
 
Brown served East Ohio Conference pastorates at Gay Street United Methodist Church, Sycamore/Smithville UMCs, New Philadelphia Otterbein UMC, and Leroy UMC. He also served St. Paul UMC in the West Ohio Conference, and taught at Red Bird Mission in Kentucky.

Brown received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Baldwin-Wallace College and a Master of Divinity from United Theological Seminary.

He and his wife, Amy, are parents of a son and a daughter.