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Reverend Lee Brown has been at Biltmore for over 40 years and served the Lord in many positions including, Associate Pastor, VBS Director, Youth Director, and Sunday School Teacher. He also serves as High School Principal at Portsmouth Christian Schools. Pastor Brown was born in Providence, RI to a Navy family containing five boys, including him and his twin brother. Pastor Brown's father was saved while stationed in Cuba and began to pray for the salvation of his family. At the age of 13, Pastor Brown heard the gospel, was saved, and began to feel the Lord's call upon his life. He attended Tennesee Temple High School and Tennesee College where he met his future wife, Betsy Buck. After dating for three years they married, graduated, and prayed for God's will for their future. God answered with a call as Youth Pastor and Children's Ministry Director in Rocky Mount, NC. After working in this ministry for 16 months they were led to serve as teachers at Portsmouth Christian Schools and became valuble and dedicated members of Biltmore Baptist Church. In June of 1997, Pastor Brown entered Central Baptist Theological Seminary and graduated in 2000 with a Master's degree in Biblical Studies. He was then ordained and began his ministry as associate pastor at Biltmore Baptist Church. In 2019, Pastor Brown became the senior pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church and continues to lead the congregation today.
Born September 12,1927 in Pinehurst, North Carolina to William and Mary Frye, T. M. Frye was the fifth child in a family of fifteen. He graduated from Carthage High School in 1945. He served in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U. S. Army. As a young soldier, he was stationed in South Carolina where he met his future wife, Shirley Burnett in 1946. After completing his military service, Pastor Frye began his ministerial education at The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. He later received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Norfolk College of William and Mary. Pastor Frye was ordained in the Summer Hill Baptist Church, Carthage, NC, under the ministry of Dr. William Hancock on June 3, 1951. In 1952, Pastor Frye accepted the call to become the Pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church.
In 2019, Pastor Frye retired from his position as the head pastor after over 66 years at Biltmore Baptist Church. He then became Pastor Emeritus and preached occasionally entertaining his church audience with the wealth of poetry and Scriptures he had memorized over the years. On January 9, 2024, Pastor Frye went to be with the Lord at a the age of 96. In today’s world, many may hold the title “preacher,” but there are not many true pastors like Thornton Maness Frye. The church considers it a true privilege to have been blessed with a faithful servant such as Reverend T. M. Frye.