DeLisa R. Brown announces for St. John Parish president
Published 12:01 am Saturday, April 18, 2015
LAPLACE — DeLisa R. Brown, Democrat, announced her candidacy for parish president of St. John the Baptist Parish during the Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — Pressing Forward with a Purpose Service event on April 4, which marked the 47th anniversary of Dr. King’s death of April 4, 1968.
DeLisa R. Brown
The Rev. Derek B. King, nephew of Dr. Martin Luther Ling Jr. was the special guest speaker. Bishop/Prophet Antoine M. Jasmine of Choice International Family Outreach Worship Center and Brown of Something, Nu, Inc. at Choice the Events Place hosted the event.
Brown said she has accepted the challenge, just like Martin Luther King Jr. and the many others that fought so hard and died for our voice to be heard.
She is a lifelong resident of St. John the Baptist Parish, the daughter of Randell and Joyce Howard Brown and mother of Damico Curtis Mazique and Ty Ladell Wills.
Brown received a bachelor, master and doctorate in theology from FHD Christian Theological College. She also attended AMJ School of the Prophets at Choice International Family Outreach Worship Center.
She serves as a minister with Faith Healing and Deliverance Ministries Church and has served several ministries in the tri-parish area.
Additionally, she attended Grambling State University, Southeastern Louisiana University and Delgado, where she studied Criminal Justice and Mortuary Science.
Brown also was the owner/director/teacher of Faith Healing Deliverance Child Development/Christian Academy and a member of the National Association for Family Child Care.
Recognizing the need for strong leadership to bring a change to St. John the Baptist Parish, she dedicated herself to serving the community full-time.
She has worked as a community activist with attorney Arthur Rocker, chairman of Operation People for Peace, Inc., Dr. Byron Clay, former president of the National Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Corey Brown, director of Something Nu, Inc. and Co-founder of God Save our Parish.
She is starting the first Tri-Parish Chapter of National Congress of Black Women with Dr. E. Faye Williams, an appointee by President Barack Obama to the Presidential Scholars Commission.
Brown pledges as parish president she will be accessible, accountable and available to the people of St. John the Baptist Parish, and “something new” has come to the parish — “embrace the change.”
The election is Oct. 24, and three days of qualifying starts Sept. 8.
