The Brown Family Chronicles - June 2005

The following link will take you to our June 2005 newsletter.
http://hqmail.agmd.org/~wayne.brown/TheBrownFamilyChroniclesv1n6.pdf.

Foster Care Update - June 13, 2005

Today was a bittersweet day. Our last foster child, Tonisha, went to live with her adoptive family. Tonisha, who is now six-year-old, has been a part of our family since she was one-month-old. Please keep her and her new family in your prayers. Pray for an easy adjustment for everyone.

The Brown Family Chronicles - May 2005

The following link will take you to our May 2005 newsletter.
http://hqmail.agmd.org/~wayne.brown/TheBrownFamilyChroniclesv1n5.pdf.

Foster Care Update - May 23, 2005

Today was a day of rejoicing. Yadi, our two-year-old foster child, went home to her family today. Mom, dad, and baby have all worked very hard for over two years to ensure a successful reunification. This is truly an answer to prayer. Please continue to lift up Yadi and her family in your prayers. Pray that her health will continue to improve. And pray for an easy adjustment as she rejoins mom, dad, and her little brother as one complete and happy family.

The Brown Family Chronicles - April 2005

The following link will take you to our April 2005 newsletter.
http://hqmail.agmd.org/~wayne.brown/TheBrownFamilyChroniclesv1n4.pdf.

The Brown Family Chronicles - March 2005

The following link will take you to our March 2005 newsletter. http://hqmail.agmd.org/~wayne.brown/TheBrownFamilyChroniclesv1n3.pdf.

Change is good!

The Brown family has recently gone through a tremendous change in their ministry assignment. And the change has been a wonderful answer to prayer. For several weeks, the Brown family and the staff at Assemblies of God World Missions have been struggling with a very difficult question related to how to insure Rebecca outside of the USA. Since Rebecca is an adopted child, all her medical expenses are fully covered within the USA. However, once she leaves the USA, she has no medical coverage. While the Brown family and the staff at Assemblies of God World Missions worked very hard to resolve the insurance issue, there just was no acceptable coverage available. Rebecca is simply too high a risk for an insurance company to assume.

At the same time that the Brown family was struggling with the insurance issue, the team at Book of Hope was struggling with their own issue. They have recently completed a new production called The GodMan. The GodMan is a 52-minute video presentation. It includes a mix of live action that is interwoven into an animated story. The GodMan presents the full gospel message in a modern format that is culturally relevant to the children to whom it is targeted. When fully complete, The GodMan will be available in nine culturally relevant versions and more than 25 different languages. The GodMan is designed to reach out to the more than 1.5 billion children around the world who are illiterate, as well as those who are too young to read, who choose not to read and children living in limited-access nations.

With their new assignment, Wayne, Tammy, and Rebecca will have a new and much larger ministry focus. Gone is the day of being concerned about one country -- replaced by a concern about the entire world. Gone is the day of a target ministry audience of nine million children -- replaced by a target ministry audience of over 1.5 billion. For years, Wayne and Tammy have prayed the Prayer of Jabez as found in First Chronicles 4:10 (NIV):

10 Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.

What an amazing way for God to answer their prayers. Please join the Brown family in giving thanks to God for this amazing and unexpected answer to their prayers.

To preview The GodMan, visit http://www.thegodman.com and click on the Trailer icon.

The Brown Family Chronicles - February 2005

The following link will take you to our February 2005 newsletter. http://hqmail.agmd.org/~wayne.brown/TheBrownFamilyChroniclesv1n2.pdf.

A Night of Firsts

It is Superbowl Sunday and Tammy, Rebecca, and Wayne are experiencing a wonderful first in their lives. It is the night of their first itineration service as newly appointed missionaries with the Assemblies of God. Although Wayne will not be leaving Publix for several more weeks, he was able to schedule two services prior to officially starting itineration. Branchborough Assembly of God is the very first for the Brown family.

Branchborough Assembly of God is not a large church and it is not located in a large town...however, the folks at this church have a large heart for missions and for missionaries. We were blessed to have this church at the start of our schedule. Although attendance was light, the blessings flowed in terms of worship, and love, and finances. Any way you slice it, we were blessed to be here.

Another first was that Wayne was preaching his first full service. Rather than a missions update, the Lord directed Wayne to preach a Word message. This was confirmed by the direction Wayne received from Pastor Burnard. His message was titled "Don't Get Stuck in the FUD." FUD is Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Wayne used the account of Peter walking on the water as found in Matthew 14:22-33 to set the stage for this story. He then explained how being overcome by fear can result in grave consequences, but by overcoming fear and following the Lord's direction, one can expect to see great things happen.

As part of his message, Wayne was able to share how God brought Rebecca into our family. He used the struggles her mother had in bringing her into this world to develop the story of overcoming FUD. Then he explained how because of her courage, Rebecca has been able to bless many in this world and has even been a help in leading lost family members to the Lord.

It was a moving first service, especially for our family. The folks a Branchborough may soon forget who the Browns are, but we will never forget Branchborough and the blessings we received from our first itineration church.

The Brown Family Chronicles - January 2005

The following link will take you to our January 2005 newsletter.
http://hqmail.agmd.org/~wayne.brown/TheBrownFamilyChroniclesv1n1.pdf