Meet Our Staff

Brae Adams grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and received her BA in English at Mississippi State University. After graduation, she enrolled in a two-year Teacher education program with the American Montessori Society to become a licensed teacher of three- to six-year-olds. Brae served as a teacher at schools in Charlotte and Raleigh North Carolina before taking time off to be a mother. After a fifteen-year hiatus to rear her three children, Kit, Avery and Han, Brae received her call to ministry.  

 

In 2012 Brae enrolled at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School located in Rochester, NY, graduating in 2018. While attending CRCDS, Brae served as lay pastor at Open Arms Metropolitan Community Church. She was ordained into the MCC in 2019. While serving in Rochester, Brae was a member of the steering committee for the Western New York HRC, the Human Rights Campaign; served as a member of the Board of ROC Salt center, a ministry of the presbytery of Genesee Valley; and was a member of the Christian Faith and LGBT lectureship committee at Colgate Divinity School. She was also a member and later chairperson of the board for the South Wedge Food Program (now known as The People’s Pantry). She has lectured nationally on the subject of LGBT persons and the church, provided spiritual support for community actions for various Black Lives Matter groups, and currently serves as an Antiracism Educator, and Ordination Evaluator for the Metropolitan Community Church.

 

Brae was called to United Congregational Church in September of 2021. Since coming to Worcester, Brae has become active in many justice-based organizations. She is passionate about Human Rights for people of color, LGBTIA people, immigrants, and the poor - often testifying before the Worcester City Council on behalf of members of those populations. As a volunteer chaplain for Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Brae can frequently be found hanging out in the Campus Center with students. Brae often combines her love of storytelling and liturgy, in her children’s messages, her sermons, and as a contributor to the Worcester Telegram and Gazette column “Keep the Faith.” When not working, Brae and her wife Debbie and their mini golden doodle Stella Jo can be found cheering on the Buffalo Bills, enjoying the flowers and plants at the New England Botanical Garden at Tower Hill, or soaking up the sun at Cape Cod.