First Baptist Church

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First Baptist, a large church, employs a large staff that strives daily to “Do everything in love” (1Cor 16:14) while serving the congregation and the community. To support our large church, each staff member, office administrator, church officer, director, pastor and executive pastor shoulder weighty responsibilities when caring for the needs of the First Baptist membership and the community.

Every staff member from the Senior Pastor to the general staff is dedicated, more than qualified and anointed by God to do His work in a corporate setting for the church's administrative functions.

Get acquainted with our staff and if you feel led, send an e-mail commending them for the job they do. Remember, some of the staff pictured, volunteer their services.

Executive Pastor

Rev. Alyson Browne Johnson
Executive Pastor

Rev. Browne Johnson is a native of Washington, D.C. She was educated in the Montclair, New Jersey Public School System. Rev. Browne Johnson has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ and the Master of Divinity Degree from Drew Theological Seminary. Read More ►

Rev. Browne Johnson began preaching at the age of eighteen. She is proud of the fact that the preaching tradition in her family began with her great-aunt, Evangelist Mattie Stewart.

Rev. Browne Johnson was ordained a deacon in 1975 and ordained an elder in 1977 in the New York Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Rev. Browne Johnson has served the following churches as Pastor: Mt. Olive A.M.E. Church, Port Washington, NY, 1977-1982; St. Mark A.M.E. Church, Cranford, NJ, 1982-1994 and Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 1994-1998. She has the distinction of being the first woman to have pastored each of these churches. Additionally, she is the first woman in the NJ Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church to preach the opening sermon of the Annual Conference, to complete construction of a new church edifice and to serve as Dean of the Newark-New Brunswick Ministerial Institute.

Rev. Browne Johnson has served as a chaplain at two NJ Correctional Facilities and as a rape crisis counselor. After twenty-one years, Rev. Browne Johnson took a leave from the pastoral ministry. She presently serves as the Executive Pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, Somerset, NJ.

Rev. Browne Johnson is proud to have her ministerial journey included in the book This Is My Story: Testimonies and Sermons of Black Women in Ministry, edited by Dr. Cleo LaRue. As a result of writing about her journey several sister girls suggested that Rev. Browne Johnson begin her own ministry. They pledged their support and continue to give their time, talent and funding. In May of 2005, Spirit Ministries was born. It is a non-profit organization whose aim is the spiritual, intellectual and emotional uplift of women via teaching, preaching, counseling, and workshops, etc.

Rev. Browne Johnson is the proud mother of two, and grandmother of two boys, Jordan and Jayden. Her daughter, Joyelle, a graduate of the Baltimore International Culinary College, is a professional chef. Her son Justin, a graduate of Virginia Union University, is also in ministry. He begins a new generation of preachers in the Browne family.

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