When Vergil and Kelsey Brown announced they were moving to Portland, Oregon to start a new church, their kids were, “not crazy about the idea.” But now, the whole family realizes starting a new work in a community once described as a “church desert” was the best thing they could ever do. This is the story of how your gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering gave not just the Brown family, but all of their Northeast Portland neighborhood, a front-row seat to see just how powerful God is.


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