David G. Brown
Pronouns: (He/Him)

Office Hours:
Tue/Wed/Thurs/Friday 9:00 am-1:00 pm
Sunday 7:00-2:00 pm

email: minister@uuffxbg.org

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David was raised in the Southern Baptist church, and all his life, felt called to be a minister. He pursued that calling in the Southern Baptist convention, and for several years, was an Associate Pastor in Kansas City and in St Louis Missouri. This included leading worship services, leading religious education, counseling and visitation. He found great satisfaction in caring for people at significant periods of their lives, and helping them learn and grow in the spiritual areas of life as well. Difficulties in his marriage and personal life resulted in his leaving the ministry, so he retrained and made a life for himself in the field of Internet Technology. But he never lost his heart for ministry.

As he grew and developed in his ideas about spirituality, he experienced a crisis of faith, where the doctrines he’d grown up with no longer made sense in view of the complexities and heartbreaks of his life. He read extensively in the teachings of Buddhism (beginning with the works of Eckhart Tolle), and his view of spiritual matters broadened and deepened. At first, his inclination was to reject the teachings of his youth as too narrow and simplistic, but he has now found a way to embrace those as well in his continued quest for spiritual insight. That led him to Unitarian-Universalism, which seeks to learn from all sources of wisdom. He and his wife Rebecca moved to Fredericksburg in 2019 and became involved in the UUFF.  As contract minister, he strives to share with others that inclusiveness and the desire to keep learning about those things which transcend our day-to-day lives. David holds a BA in Music from the University of Missouri, an MA in Biblical Languages from Calvary Seminary, and an MBA in Information Systems from Northcentral University.