Our New Blog

As part of the brand name transition from Your World Missionaries to The Vital Message, we have migrated our blog over to a new blog name.  You will now find all of our blog posts at http://blog.TheVitalMessage.org.  All future blog posts will happen from that blog address.

In Christ,

Wayne

http://TheVitalMessage.org

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Pastors Wayne & Tammy Brown and Rebecca

Assemblies of God Missionaries to Thailand

PO Box 92714

Lakeland, FL 33804-2714

home phone: (954) 724-3026 

cell phone: (954) 673-6946 

e-mail: Wayne.Brown@agmd.org 

Financial Support: https://secure1.ag.org/contributions/detail.cfm?LedgerID=D228E68B-633B-45AC-8D69-12C1E4146351

The Vital Message - Our New Brand Phrase

For the past four years, we have used the brand phrase "Your World Missionaries" on all of our materials. It was a great slogan that clearly defined the scope of our ministry. We were missionaries who worked worldwide. Now that we are blessed to be able to take a field assignment and focus in on one country, the phrase "Your World Missionaries" just doesn't do the trick. We need something new. A few months ago I asked all of my friends and connections on facebook and a business network called LinkedIn to consider this need, look at what our new ministry in Thailand, and help us to develop a new brand phrase and associated graphics. Thus started a journey into the world of branding that I had never ventured too deeply into before. And, I think we have come up with something that is descriptive of the focus of our new work in Thailand. That new brand phrase is shaping up to be "The Vital Message" and will be accompanied with a relevant graphic. Here is our though process behind the new brand phrase.

When you define the two primary words that make up the phrase The Vital Message, you find the following.

Vital

• existing as a manifestation of life 
  
• concerned with or necessary to the maintenance of life 
  
• full of life 
  
• fundamentally concerned with or affecting life or living beings 
  
• of the utmost importance 
  

Message

• a communication in writing, in speech, or by signals 
  
• a messenger's mission 
  
• an underlying theme or idea
  

Vital speaks of life, from its creation to its termination and all things in between. It also speaks of importance, in life or otherwise.
Message almost speaks for itself. It is the art of or the product of communication. Our work in media is centered on a core message, an underlying theme that God loves everyone and wants them all to be with Him.

Now, considering the two individual words, lets bring them together into our new brand phrase.

The Vital Message

• A communication that is full of life 
  
• A messenger’s mission that is of the utmost importance 
  
• The idea that God is fundamentally concerned with the lives of His creation
  

Given the urgency of reaching the Thai people with the gospel and given God's urgent call on our lives to be the ones to go and proclaim the truth through media and through our work with university students, we believe that this brand phrase -- "The Vital Message" -- works well as a unique identifying phrase for our new ministry. Over the next few weeks you will see changes to our website, blog, newsletters, photo archives, video archives, and facebook causes and personal pages that reflect this new brand phrase. And there will be a new website address that incorporates this new brand phrase. All of these changes will include a new graphic logo that will clearly identify our ministry.

We are excited to have this new brand phrase and graphics available as we launch our itineration cycle for our ministry in Thailand. We hope it helps in clearly communicating what we will be doing and the urgency we feel in doing the work that God has called us to do.
In Christ,
Wayne
http://YourWorldMissionaries.org
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Pastors Wayne & Tammy Brown and Rebecca
Assemblies of God Missionaries to Thailand
PO Box 92714
Lakeland, FL 33804-2714

home phone: (954) 724-3026
cell phone:     (954) 673-6946
e-mail:           Wayne.Brown@agmd.org 

Financial Support: https://secure1.ag.org/contributions/detail.cfm?LedgerID=D228E68B-633B-45AC-8D69-12C1E4146351

The First Week - It Was Amazing!!!

Well, we have finished our first week of itineration and WOW, what an amazing week.  If the next 51 weeks are anything like this past one, it is going to be an amazing time of blessing in our itineration.

We started the week last Sunday with two amazing services at Greeneway Church in Orlando.  Pastor Mumm is the senior pastor and is also a missionary kid from Thailand.  On top of that, he has his PhD in media.  What an awesome blessing!  We were able to have lunch with him and his family, including his mother.  His mom and dad were media missionaries to Thailand in the 70's and 80's and continue to produce programming for other countries in the Asia Pacific region.  Greeneway blessed us with a generous offering and a commitment for monthly support.  Praise the Lord!!!

For Sunday evening, we were able to visit one of the churches that currently supports our ministry – Bushnell Assembly of God.  This little town on I-75 has one of the most powerful and anointed Pentecostal churches you will find anywhere.  It was a personal and spiritual blessing to be able to return to Bushnell and update them on our past work and on what’s to come in Thailand.

The week continued with the 2009 Peninsular Florida District Council meetings on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  We shared the missions table with the Wade family on Monday. They are dear friends and fellow missionaries, heading to a very difficult country that is in the news almost daily.  I consider it an honor to share time and space with this amazing family.  Dr. George Wood, General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God, gave Monday night’s Council message.  Prior to his service, we were blessed to attend the Speed the Light banquet where Rebecca and her wheelchair accessible van were part of the headline promotion for the event.

Tuesday was a day of honoring others at the District Council.  It started with the memorial service in the morning to honor those AG pastors who passed away since the previous District Council.  Then there was a missions luncheon in the afternoon and the missions service on Tuesday night.  All the missionaries at the District Council paraded before the assembly and were announced by our District Superintendent.  That was followed by a very moving missions service and offering for our 2009/2010 missions focus on Cuba.  Brother Hector Hunter was the guest speaker along with Pastor Dan Betzer from Fort Meyers.  The night was capped off with a retirement reception for Pastor Betzer who is stepping down as the district missions director.

Wednesday was the final day of District Council.  The morning was filled with a Wisdom Conference where my friend Pastor Russ Jones made a presentation on using media and technology in ministry.  He was followed by several other speakers, including a great presentation by Pastor Max Yeary.  Wednesday night was the annual ordination service and our dear friend Jaimee Silva was among those receiving her ordination.  We enjoyed a celebration dinner with her, her parents, and her grandparents.  These are three generations of Assemblies of God missionaries serving in the Asia Pacific region.  Amazing!!!

We finished our week off with a special surprise birthday for a very dear friend of our family – Dawn Dick.  It was a full week with lots of ministry, lots of reconnecting with friends we have not seen in four years or more, and lots of driving.  Things will get back down to normal on Monday when Wayne will return to calling churches and scheduling services.  Please be in prayer for his scheduling work.  He has 50 services scheduled, but we need 150 in order to raise all the money needed to go to Thailand.  Pray that the scheduling work will be successful.

Our next presentation is in chapel at OneHope on Wednesday, followed by a service on Sunday morning, May 17, at Way of Life church in Plantation.  We will also be visiting New Destiny in Loughman and River of Life in Oviedo this month.