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 Marie
Brown Ministries
From her teenaged public profession of faith at a Billy
Graham crusade to her post graduate studies at Christ for
the Nations Institute (CFNI), Marie Brown has been a woman
on fire for God. In the early 1980's, she acted as a
courier, smuggling Bibles and other materials behind the
Iron Curtain.
Around that time, she accompanied Dr. Daisy Washburn Osborn
on an African tour of ministry. This experience launched
Marie into a five month period of preaching and teaching,
during which she ministered alongside the founder of the
largest African mission in Kenya. States Marie, "It was
there I truly began to do what I was called to do." Marie
Brown Ministries was incorporated in 1984.
The first ten years of ministry focused on evangelism: open
air crusades in the developing world and revival meetings in
local churches in the West.
By the mid-1990s, Marie sensed a change taking place. Great
evangelists and church planters were emerging among
nationals in many countries. The glaring need seemed now to
be in the area of discipleship and leadership training.
Churches were being filled, yet people often were not
staying beyond a year. Since many of the pastors had never
had any systematic teaching, Marie Brown Ministries moved in
to fill the void, offering training to empower the leaders
who, in turn, could disciple the people.
A few years into conducting leaders' seminars, Marie had a
vision while praying with a group of pastors in Tanzania.
She saw a map of that country burst into flames, with the
raging fire spreading quickly across the nation, then
Africa, then outward to the world. As she pondered what the
Lord was saying to her, clarity dawned in her heart in the
form of a passionate vision for revival, centered in a
revelation of Jesus' final prayer in John 17. Networking for
Revival seminars resulted leadership training coupled with a
dynamic revelation of the unity of the Church.
Today Networking for Revival seminars are taking place in
five nations and producing good fruit. Despite hostile
political climates in some of these areas, the church is
still coming to life in anew dimension, as true unity brings
oneness of purpose and vision for a nation’s salvation.
After 25 plus years in ministry in over 35 nations, what
began as cloak-and-dagger in secret has now evolved through
obedience into a powerful nation-impacting ministry that is
mobilizing the Church of Jesus Christ.
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