Geoffrey is a lifelong Presbyterian, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pittsburgh on a football scholarship, and during his senior year played in the East West Shrine Senior All Star Game, as well as the Hula Bowl. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns, went to preseason camp, was not put on waivers, but nevertheless, responded to God’s call to go to seminary and enter the ministry. He spent a first formative Biblical and theological year under the tutelage of Dr. R. C. Sproul at the Ligonier Valley Study Center when it was first located in Stahlstown, PA. He studied one-on-one with Dr. Sproul in Galatians and Ephesians, as well as in apologetics. Geoff is deeply grateful for this merciful Providence that introduced him to Reformed Theology.
After earning a Master of Divinity degree from Ashland Theological Seminary in Biblical Studies where Dr. R. C. Sproul was the Commencement Speaker for his Senior year, Geoffrey then went on to attend Fuller Theological Seminary in their Th.D. program for a year of post-graduate study. Not too comfortable in CA, he soon returned to PA for a Master of Theology degree in Systematic Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Geoffrey’s first PCUSA pastorate was in New Jersey for five years. During this time, he completed his Ph.D. residency studies in Christian Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and the University of Pittsburgh. He was then called to pastor in Los Alamitos, CA where he completed his Ph.D. dissertation in the area of biomedical ethics and was awarded his Ph.D. while in CA.
The principal heartbeats for Geoff in ministry are preaching, encouraging and caring. He devotes time daily to sermon preparation. He also prays daily for a substantial period of time that the Holy Spirit will grant a sacred unction or anointing upon the Sunday preaching of the Word of God and upon God’s people in worship so that the Lord will be glorified and His people edified and encouraged to find their deepest delight and highest joy in the Lord Jesus Christ. His deepest ministry joy is to spread a sacred passion for the supremacy of God’s glory in all things for the joy of all generations in Jesus Christ.
Dr. Brown is a member of The Fellowship Community, which is an organization of Presbyterian churches and ministers who affirm historic orthodox Christianity, along with its unchanging truth and enduring ethical alignments based on Gods divine revelation to us and providentially preserved for us in the Bible as the inspired written Word of God.
Roslyn Presbyterian Church is his sixth transitional pastor post. He and Jan, his beloved, have been married for 26 years and are counting forward with joy in the Lord. That joy, Geoff says, is greatly increased by being called here as Transitional Pastor to RPC.
