Board of Directors

New Life for Old Ministries Board of Directors

Charles L. Brown is the founder and president of New Life for Old Ministries. A native of Stockton, California, his parents moved to Los Angeles when he was seven years old. Upon completion of high school, he was drafted into the armed forces where he served as a paratrooper with the 82^nd Airborne Division during the Vietnam War.
After re-dedicating his life to the Lord in 1983, he began teaching a home bible study at the home of his mother-in-law in 1984. And in 1986, he began ministering in the penal institutions with Minister Don Woskow of D & B Ministries.
After years of going into various institutions and seeing the great need for the people to be taught how to live according to God’s Word, in 1990 he birthed New Life for Old Ministries along with Otha Cole and Arthur White. He was ordained in 1994 by Bishop Willie Dunn of World Wide Gospel Church in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Since that time, he has ministered in major institutions all over the country: Angola in Louisiana; Pelican Bay and San Quentin in California, Ely State Prison in Nevada, Utah State Prison, and Mabel Basset in Oklahoma and Halava State Prison in Hawaii. Minister Brown also serves as a Chaplain with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department at Wayside Pitchess Honor Ranch in Saugas, California.
He and his lovely wife, Cynthia, will celebrate 40 years of marriage in 2009, and they are the proud parents of four children, Angel, Onaka, Joshua, and Adam, and have two wonderful son-in-laws, Frederick and Charles and two grandsons, Kalin and Frederick.
Brenda Boyce is Director of Music for New Life for Old Ministries. A psalmist, praise & worship leader and teacher, she hails from the Motor City, Detroit, Michigan. She accepted the Lord as a youngster and started singing in church. She later did studio work as a background singer and demo singer for songwriters while employed at Motown Records. She relocated from Detroit to Los Angeles with them in 1972.
After years of the “party life,” and what she thought were a “good time,” Brenda rededicated her life to the Lord in 1981. Since that time she has ministered at numerous events at her local church, where she was a member of the sanctuary choir for many years. She also has ministered on cable TV programs, at women’s retreats, fellowships, Women’s Aglow meetings, singles and special music for her church.
Knowing from a young age that there was a call on her life to teach the Word of God, she only chose to minister in song, until she was moved to attend the School of Ministry at her church. She received her diploma in Biblical Studies upon graduation in 1995. Just prior to that time, she became involved with New Life for Old Ministries while ministering as part of a praise group.   Brenda has taught and ministered the Word of God in song in numerous correctional facilities in California and Nevada, as well as the missions in downtown Los Angeles.
As Director of Music for New Life for Old Ministries, Brenda schedules the ministries’ psalmists at the numerous ministry dates each month, as well as putting on concerts and handling other special events. In 1999, she was appointed as Vice President to the board of New Life for Old Ministries, where she assisted the President in carrying out the vision God has given him for the ministry. She held that position for eight years.
Brenda enjoys ministering in the prisons and jails, because you really have a captive audience. Her desire is always that she will reach the lost right where they are, and that her music ministry will “minister,” and not “entertain God’s people.
Evangelist Ollie Brown, a native of Texas, received Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at age 10. She grew up in the church, but was not taught how to live the victorious, overcoming, God-kind of life. On January 30, 1987, she re-dedicated her life to Christ and became a member of a local church, where she was taught the Word of God and how to walk by faith. In 1990 God called her to the five-fold ministry, but it was another year before she stopped “running from God” and heeded the call on her life.
God opened doors for Ollie to preach with New Life for Old Ministries, an outreach ministry for which her brother-in-law, Charles Brown, is founder and president. Like a whirling burst of wind, she began sharing God’s uncompromising Word, prompting one of the volunteers to give her the nickname, “Hurricane Ollie.” It stuck.
She has ministered in numerous missions, prisons, jails and juvenile facilities for NLFO throughout California, Nevada and in Utah.   Ollie also served as Director of Missions for New Life for Old Ministries for years, where she was responsible for scheduling volunteers to minister at the various missions. In most months she and the other volunteers minister to over 1,000 men and women at the missions. In 2007 she was appointed Vice President of the ministry to assist the President in carrying out his vision for the ministry.
Sanctified, single and set free, she presently resides in Los Angeles, and is the mother of three grown children; two boys and one girl. She stays busy caring for the things of God "that she may be holy both in body and in spirit.”
Keith DeWayne Oglesby serves as Director of Prisons for New Life for Old Ministries. A native son of Los Angeles, California, he received his education in the city’s school system. After graduation from high school and some training at L.A. Trade Tech City College, Keith went into the Army, where he served six years as an Infantry Man and was certified as a Combat Medic. He was saved at the age of 25 and attended Los Angeles Bible Training School and has worked in the aerospace field for 26 years.
He didn’t start out serving God with his whole heart, but after what he calls a Category 5 storm passing through his life, he learned real fast to lean on Jesus totally and to not play games with his love.
In 1998 Keith was ordained as a deacon in the Disciples of Christ church.   God promoted him to trustee and a mentor at his church, positions he doesn’t take lightly. Since that time God has promoted him to teaching Sunday school, ministering in the prisons, jails, youth camps and singing in the choir.   When Keith was in the world, he was very shy and had to be high to be bold, to speak in front of people, but God has used the things in his life to get him where he wants him to be today. Before he speaks to people today, he asks God to take control and speak through him and to use him as he sees fit.
Four years ago Brother Keith met Minister Charles Brown, head of New Life for Old Ministries. Minister Brown connected him with Chester Gordon, Director of Prisons for the ministry. Keith began later to minister in the prisons and was asked to work as Chester’s assistant, not knowing that God was preparing him for a new promotion, Director of Prisons. He has held this position for over two years. Keith calls Minister Brown and Chester Gordon the best mentors God could have sent.
Keith and his wife, Valleigh, are proud parents of two children: son, Jeremiah and daughter, Imani.
Brother Keith says, “All you need is the will to be used.”
Reverend Phillip Ross was born in Lubbock, Texas. His father, a military man, moved his family to Riverside County in sunny California when Phillip was ten years old. He was also baptized at the age of ten, but was in Juvenile Hall by the age of fifteen.
Phillip made a number of religious “pit stops” searching for God and religion that would fit into his lifestyle. Instead of finding the truth, he was found marijuana and alcohol through a close relative around 1968. Thus the saga began. His drug addiction grew as he entered high school, failing to graduate as a result, but by the grace of God, he did complete a G.E.D program in 1974.
His addiction continued and after 27 years, he finally realized he was powerless over drugs and alcohol.   One day he confessed Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, and finally surrendered his life. He was delivered from the powerful grips of addiction, at last.
The Bible tells us in Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.” Though saved and serving God, he still had to spend three years in prison for a prior drug charge. Released from prison in 1998, Phillip joined “Love Lifted Me Ministries” under the leadership of Pastor Sylvester Shigg and became a deacon.
In February of 1999, he was privileged to join New Life for Old Ministries, as a volunteer where he ministered the gospel to the homeless in the missions in downtown Los Angeles. Now serving as Director of Missions, he oversees and schedules volunteers at Union Rescue Mission and Salvation Army Harbor Light Mission.
He was married to Cleo Juana in 1978, and they are blessed with two children; son, Phillip Jr. and daughter Kitika.
Roy Williams was not born into an impoverished family, yet he still had a problem childhood. His first brush with the law was at the tender age of nine. Theft was the crime. The sentence:   three weeks in Juvenile Detention.
That was just the beginning. From there he took the route that led to boys' camps to city jails to county farms and then progressed to the ultimate - the penitentiary. At the age of 18 he was sentenced to the Salem Correctional Institution for burglary, the sentence: one year.    Marijuana, alcohol, you name it - it was part of his growing up to this age.
Upon his release, not having a spiritual foundation and still undecided on what to do with his life, Roy conformed to the way of the world.   Two years later, he ended up in the federal correctional facility at Lompoc, CA, where he was sentenced to six years for bank robbery. He returned to Portland, Oregon after his release.
This lifestyle continued until 1995, when he finally made the decision - or let’s say he purposed in his heart - to do the right thing, to receive Jesus as his Lord and Savior, follow God wholeheartedly and cast all his cares and situations on Him. While at the General Relief office one day, he met a man who asked him if he went to church. Of course, his reply was “No.” The man told him to go to the Union Rescue Mission downtown and to ask for Tony Page, who then was the pastor of World Overcomer’s Faith Center. Roy joined his church.
Through Pastor Page, Roy started ministering in the jails. He then hooked up with New Life for Old Ministries, where he continued ministering, including Metropolitan Detention Center federal prison and Central Jail downtown, Pitchess Wayside Honor Ranch in Saugas, California and other facilities. A faithful, reliable and committed brother, Roy was later appointed Director of Jails for New Life for Old
He is currently a member of New Life for Old Christian Church, pastored by Richard D. Stewart, where he teaches Bible Study. Licensed by his pastor in 2008, he remains a faithful member and helper.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
Vickie Spencer was born in Idabel, Oklahoma, a small town not far from Tulsa.   She lived there with her grandmother until she was 12 years old, and then moved to Los Angeles in 1957 to live with her mother. She accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior in 1968 and filled with the Holy Spirit.
She has been a member of Zoe Christian Fellowship, Los Angeles, under Bishop Frank Stewart for over 16 years. Not one to just sit in the pews, Vickie has served her church and the Lord through many outlets: Sunday School teacher, Superintendent, Evangelism Team member, Church Secretary and Board Facilitator of “Righteousness & Power (RAP), a young women’s group for ages 17 to 30, and a counselor for individual & couples and Youth Leader.
Knowing she was called to “Hurting People,” in 1995 Vickie joined New Life for Old Ministries as a volunteer, under Founder and President Charles L. Brown.   She and her husband, Tommy Spencer, faithfully ministered and counseled by each other’s side to children and teens incarcerated at the various juvenile youth camps throughout the Los Angeles area. In 2007, Vickie was appointed to his position as Director of Juvenile Facilities, when he became Chaplain at Central Juvenile Hall in 2007.
Vickie and Tommy have been married since August of 1992 and have two sons, Marlon and Carl Anthony, and three joyful granddaughters.
Vickie’s greatest desire is to see all people accept Christ, to enjoy a victorious life and that more abundantly in every area.   She is determined to do her part!