About Debra Broughton
Over 30 years ago, Debra Broughton began to hear God’s call to preach. Ten years later she was licensed and ordained at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. During this season, she served the Ebenezer Baptist Church in numerous capacities including worship, administration, missions, and evangelism. Additionally, she served as Assistant Pastor of Youth and Young Adults at the Friendship Community Church of College Park Georgia.
Following a successful corporate career and theological preparation, Rev. Broughton relocated to Mobile, AL to fulfill her assignment on the Gulf Coast as a church planter for American Baptist USA. In Mobile, Rev. Broughton connected her social-justice theology, administrative experience becoming an educator, and bi-vocational pastor. She supplied the Hillsdale Presbyterian Church as Sr. Pastor, and ABC church planter for Guiding Light Christian, and Faith Baptist.
Rev. Broughton’s contemporary, charismatic, and cutting- edge approach to preaching and teaching have opened doors for her around the country. God’s anointing on her life has sent her preaching in London England, Ireland, Caribbean Islands, and, throughout the United States. Rev. Broughton has produced three devotional guides entitled, “The Road to Resurrection”. In 2007 the devotionals were adopted as the meditation guide for the City of Mobile Ecumenical Alliance and other ministries across the Gulf Coast. In 2010, she was recruited by the nationally acclaimed New Leaders for New Schools, a transformational school leader program. This challenge merged her gifts of preaching and teaching and led her back home to Memphis, TN. In 2015, her commitment to engaging and serving community made national news when she received the Service in Education award and was featured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Rev. Broughton’s dynamic voice of liberation and social justice continues to reverberate across the nation as she travels the country teaching and preaching liberation through holistic education. Her personal belief statement is, “when you educate a child you build a family, when you build a family you transform communities, when you transform communities, you can change the world!
Over the past years, Rev. Broughton has connected the work of heart and hand as the Senior Consultant for UFIT Education and Economic Empowerment Group. With certifications in both education and church administration she can strategically connect the sacred and secular work to liberate and empower others. She supports non-profits, churches, schools, and individuals with designing and developing organizations for education and economic empowerment in communities of color. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech, from Bishop College, Dallas TX, a Master of Divinity degree from Candler School of Theology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, along with a M.Ed. from the University of Alabama. She is married to Dr. Timothy Broughton Sr. and they have two grown children and five grandsons (Bishop, Elijah, Noah, Malakhi and Mikhari).
