By Robert M. Marovich
Dennis Bines knowledgeable JGM that gospel singer and church chief Bishop Kervy Brown handed away from an obvious coronary heart assault on Sunday, July 7. He was 65.
Born in New York on Might 21, 1959, Kervy was impressed by the singing of his mom, Mary Brown, lead vocalist with the Religion Gospel Singers. For his half, Kervy went on to sing with the Bronx Mass Choir. Via Bishop Albert Jamison’s introduction, Brown turned a part of the Gospel Music Workshop of America at age twenty and remained a member of GMWA for greater than forty years. He could be heard main the Youth Choir on “Pass Away,” from the GMWA recording The Tampa Expertise (2004).
Brown gained nationwide consideration for his lead vocal work with Bishop Hezekiah Walker and his Love Fellowship Campaign, a choir of which he was a founding member. Amongst his hottest leads have been “Make It to That City,” “Lord Do It,” and “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow.” Brown additionally led “Victory” on 1988’s Rev. Charles H. Nicks Presents the Baptist Meeting of Free Spirit Church buildings – Quantity Two. Brown had his personal solo tasks, the latest being 2022’s Our God Reigns.
Brown was known as to pastor Larger Deliverance Temple in Danville, Virginia, in 2009, and was elevated to Bishop in 2018 underneath the management of Bishop Hezekiah Walker. It was whereas in service at Larger Deliverance on July 7, the primary Sunday of his month-long fifteenth anniversary of pastoral management, that Brown collapsed and died.
He leaves behind a spouse, daughter, granddaughter, and different members of the family. JGM sends its sincerest sympathies to the household, pals, and lots of followers of Bishop Kervy Brown. Homegoing particulars can be revealed when accessible.
“Well bless their hearts.”
