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Donald Brown |
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Donald Brown |
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Riverdale, Utah United States  |
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Donald Brown's Testimony |
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I came to the Lord as an adult of 21 years on Easter Sunday morning in April 1973. About three months later the Lord called me into the ministry. I became involved in the Jesus People movement of the late 60's and early 70's in a traveling tent ministry called Christ Is the Answer, which is also where I met my wife. Having left the Army in November 1972, I re-entered the Army in January 1974. I married my wife, Jean, on November 30, 1974, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. We were stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, from March 1975 through December 1978, the US Army/Navy School of Music in Norfolk, VA from January 1979 through November 1985, and in Heidelberg, Germany, from November 1985 through June 2001. I served as associate pastor during part of this time in our Assembly of God fellowship in the Army. After losing our full-time missionary pastor I was installed as pastor of the fellowship. I served in this capacity for fifteen months. In August 1991 a new Missionary pastor arrived in Heidelberg, Germany, for whom I continued to serve as associate pastor of our fellowship. We moved to Springfield, MO, to attend the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. I officially retired from the Army on October 1, 1991, after twenty years and six months of service. I graduated after four years with a Masters of Divinity degree. During that time I spent three years working full-time in the Division of Foreign Missions as a one-man computer help desk for our 1,800 foreign missionaries all over the world. We moved to Ellendale, ND, to pastor a small church there and teach as adjunct faculty at the Trinity Bible College. God used us to merge together two Assemblies of God churches in Ellendale that had been torn apart 25 years before. We moved to the Bay Area to teach at the Oakland School of Urban Missions (OSUM). Rapidly changing circumstances led to my suddenly being thrust into the role of Academic Dean, Registrar, and Recruitment. We been in Layton, UT, since then teaching computers.
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