The Rev. Dr. Amos Cleophilus Brown Sr. will be preaching at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs this Sunday, August 21. A native of Jackson, Miss., 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.

The Union Chapel is a nondenominational church and is located at the intersection of Circuit, Kennebec and Narragansett avenues. The organ prelude by Garrett Brown begins at 9:40 a.m. and the service begins at 10 a.m. All are welcome!