BY : Elizabeth Delaney Headlines Contributor
Vice President Kamala Harris may have been feeling the intense weight of choosing to run for the highest office in the country when she called her pastor and asked him for prayer after President Biden stepped down from his 2024 presidential run. Harris’ pastor, Rev. Amos C. Brown of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, has known Harris for over twenty years and has led the congregation since 1976, according to The Christian Post.
The call came to Brown last Sunday: “She said to me, ‘Pastor, I called because I want you to pray for me, [my husband] Doug, this country’ – and finally she said – ‘and the race I am intending to run for president,’” Rev. Brown said to Sojourners on Monday.
Rev. Brown, a significant influence among the black community and a seasoned Civil Rights activist, encouraged her to run for president in 2024 and then prayed with her. He also quoted from Micah 6:8, telling her to “do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your maker.”
According to Fox News, Rev. Brown has consistently supported Harris as a religious person involved in politics and was also one of the attendees at her inauguration in 2021.
“It is always an honor to spend time with my pastor, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco,” Harris wrote in an Instagram post with Rev. Brown last year.
Rev. Brown’s sermons and views of America have struck a controversial chord with many people, but Harris has not been shy about publicly praising her pastor for his support regarding her political aspirations.
“I just want to, if you don’t mind for a moment, take a moment of personal privilege to talk about Dr. Brown. He has been on this journey with me every step of the way, from when I first thought about running for public office almost two decades ago,” said Harris during the NAACP National Convention in 2022. “And he has been such a voice of leadership, more leadership, and leadership in our nation. And so I want to thank you, Dr. Brown, for all that you are – all that you are.”
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