Bishop Lynda Brown-Hall has received numerous awards and accommodations from President Barack Obama for her extensive missions work in Kenya, East Africa 2012; Outstanding Alumni Award from the Maple Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary 2015; Women in Worship, Excel Award, Culpeper, VA 2015; C.A.B. Outreach Ministries International, You Make The Difference Award in Global Missions, Alexandria, VA 2017; Connecting Destiny to Destiny, Distinguished Women of the Month, August 2021 Edition; Peachtree Foundation, Excellence in Service as a Community Leader Award, Temple Hills, MD 2022; ACHI Magazine Award 2023, Inducted into the Council of Bishops 2024, along with many other awards from local civic organizations and churches.
She is the organizer and Senior Pastor of Nevertheless Outreach Ministry Church that was organized by her as an outreach ministry in 1991 and later launched as a church in 2019, as a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization operating in the District of Columbia. Her ministry reach is within the US, DMV and around the world to include Kenya, East Africa, Liberia, Madhira, India, Phillipians, where she has special projects operating, and more. Her community work has not gone unnoticed by local government, private sector, medical facilities and most recently (2022) she lead the charge to get Naloxone in the school systems with in D.C., and can be seen passing it along with Fentanyl Strips on the street corners to save lives.
She possesses over 34 years of ministerial training across the spectrum of serving God’s people in every area of their lives, as well as over 47 years within various Federal Law Enforcement Agencies from which she retired in 1998 with numerous awards. Additionally, she is a member of various organizations: Lott Carey Foreign Missions Society, North American Baptist Fellowship, Baptist World Alliance, Potomac River Baptist Association, Ecumenical Global Missions Alliance and District of Columbia Baptist Convention. Her spirituals leaders: Reverend Charles W. McNeill, Jr., Presiding Prelate, Bishop Carroll A. Baltimore, and her home church, Central Baptist Church of Camp Springs, MD, Pastor Lincoln Burruss, Jr.
Her belief in proper biblical training in the matters of God, has yielded her the following Christian Degrees: Maple Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary-Master of Divinity 2010, Christian Counseling; Bachelor of Biblical Studies-Pastoral Ministries – Cum Laude – 2007; Certificate of Biblical Studies from the Washington Bible College 1994, Crisis Intervention Counseling Certification from the Department of Justice, Justice Prison Fellowship Program Participant Certificate and many others. She possesses a current Certified Christian Counselor License through the National Association of Health Care Professionals.
She is a Contributing Co-Author to: Determine to Succeed, Guide to the Criminal Justice System, Faith For Fairy Trials Vol III, Triumphant Faith In Trying Times, and Faith For Fairy Trials Daily Devotional. A new released due out later this year.
She is the proud mother of two: Morse Hall, III and Juanita Hall. Proud Grandmother of five: Zaire, Zaniya, Zakira, Morissa and Jeremiah, III and one God-daughter, Dawn Ware and God-Granddaughter Kamiya.