Derek Brown

Lead Pastor

Derek and Miranda Brown were middle-school sweethearts, and it was love at first sight (if you ask him; she isn’t so convinced). After moving around the eastern United States, Derek returned for his lifelong lover (if you ask him; she isn’t so convinced). Miranda had accepted Christ because of His work in her father’s heart during a tough time in high school. Subsequently, Miranda and her family led Derek to Christ when he was 19 years old, and their lives have been a roller coaster since. As it turns out, when you lead a passionate, gutsy, & somewhat immature German-Irishman to Christ, crazy things happen.

God, through a series of fortunate events (!), led Derek and Miranda to plant Harmony Church (link) in downtown Greenville, NC, walking distance to East Carolina University (from which both Derek and Miranda graduated) and the rapidly growing Uptown district. The local expression of the Church known as Harmony has been meeting weekly about 18 months now, and is still growing into a community of Gospel-centered & missional disciples of Christ.

The God-given vision of Derek for Harmony Church is to establish a city-wide network of church planting churches that are grounded in Reformed Gospel theology, primarily incarnational in nature, and are centered around the community, not the individual, in practice.