Hey everyone! Recently, as you many of you already know, we were able to journey back to Nicaragua for the 1st time in a year as a family to visit those we had left behind when we stepped out to follow the Lord in this new season of life in the U.S. Our time back in the land of volcano’s and laguna’s, gallo pinto and nacatamales was sweet, although the days were long and filled with hours spent in traffic and spraying ourselves down in mosquito repellent…

Hello to you out there reading this! I genuinely hope this blog entry finds you in good spirits and firmly resting in the will and favor of the Lord! I sincerely apologize if you have visited the website previously and have been patiently awaiting an update on how things have been evolving for us and the ministry since late 2023. Admittedly, I have been exceptionally busy with a whole host of responsibilities and tasks since God revealed to us the calling to relocate back to the U.S. during that time. To be honest, 2024 was kind of a blur—filled with both challenges and blessings—but in a very positive and uplifting way! Well . . . I am writing this blog from Clayton, NC, where we have been happily residing since late October when we made our long-awaited and highly emotional departure from our beloved Nicaragua. We were preparing to leave Nicaragua for the better part of a year, which involved a significant amount of psychological preparation as well as spiritual and physical adjustments to what was ahead.

Forgive me if I speak of change as some “thing” or some “force”; like some unwanted visitor that shows up at our door and refuses to leave until we finally accept that he isn’t going anywhere until he gets what he wants. However, change isn’t always a bad thing; it can be the beginning of something exciting, something new and challenging! Of course it can also be something that takes us by surprise and forces us into a new way of thinking and living that stretches and tests our levels of perseverance and adaptability to the highest level.

Did you know that in about a month I will be completing 15 years of living in Nicaragua! WOW! I came to this realization not too long ago and I feel like it was something that kind of snuck up on me, haha. I know there is nothing special about the number 15, but I guess I kind of lost track of the years between 10 and 15. Man . . . so much has changed since arriving here almost 15 years ago.

It’s been almost two months since I’ve posted so I thought it was a good time to hop on here and write a little something to keep you up to date on how we’ve been doing and what we’ve been up to. At the end of July we celebrated my mother in law’s birthday. We have seen Arlete change so much over the years as the Lord has been working in her life; it’s been a blessing to be able to bear witness to what He can do in a life that suffered so much early on.

I guess you could say that we have really seen the truth even more clearly of the parable of the 4 soils and how important it is to realize that all of us who are born again begin as soil 4 (the good soil), but that if we are not vigilant and watchful over our spiritual lives the evil one can come in and sew something into the soil of our lives that will eventually choke the fruit-bearing life out of us. We have seen it happen too many times now unfortunately; so now more than ever we understand the importance of discipleship and we have been doing our best to be obedient in making disciples in 2022.

It truly is a great joy of mine and for my wife to be able to see the Lord bless others through our family and Fervent Fire Ministries. Your giving allows us to do such things as provide food provisions for some of the more needy families in the fellowship we are a part of here in Managua.

At the Brown family ministry center/home we held a Kickstart event pretty shortly after our arrival and although it wasn’t attended by as many folks as we had previously thought would attend, we believe it strongly encouraged those who were present and further equipped them to begin walking more consistently in obedience to the commands of Jesus as His disciples. We saw healings in our time out in the streets, shared the Gospel, and two were baptized and born again to a new life in Jesus Christ! Hallelujah!

The Body of Christ, FrutiVera, and our family has grown over the past month! I invite you to watch this video blog I to hear a little about our last month and all that God has been doing at Fervent Fire Ministries and in our family! Bless you!

I have such a WONDERFUL testimony to share with you! It all began back in March when Yader decided to give his life to Jesus. Another brother in the fellowship here in Managua who got born again last year brought Yader over to our home to hear the Gospel because Yader had seen this brother’s life transform and our brother was telling Yader that the Lord could do the same for him if he would give his life to the Lord. So Yader came over that evening broken over his sin, especially his recent unfaithfulness to the mother of his son, and was looking for answers for the sin he knew was in his life. That night Yader died to himself and gave all to the Lord

Hello all! It surely has been an eventful few months since my last blog and I have been meaning to hop on the site for some time now to blog about a few of the rather large changes for our family that have taken place for us in this middle third of 2021. I thought that it would be easiest to do this through a short-ish video as I hope to cover lots of ground in about 10-15 minutes. I hope you and your family are well and the Lord’s plan for your life be more evident each day as we all walk together through this interesting and trying season of COVID. In the video…

The poor will always be among us and we always want to do what we can when we can to provide for them, but amongst our own brethren we have brothers and sisters struggling to make ends meet. Beginning last year we really felt that we needed to begin focusing on meeting the physical needs of the family of God first; and we actually feel that this is biblical and the plan of God!

This Gospel has given me real life! This Gospel continues to transform lives all around us as we share about what JESUS has done and why He did what He did. The Gospel is more than just religion and definitely more than just a nice history lesson. As we share with others and minister to hungry souls we find that many have heard about Jesus, His miraculous and much anticipated birth into a dark world, His 3 or so years spent walking with His disciples, His crucifixion and resurrection from the dead, and his ascension to the Father not long after. Many already know how to answer the question about why Jesus came to the world? They tell us “He came to die for the sins of the world”. But why? Why did He have to die?

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.”

This command from Jesus to His disciples more or less encapsulates what we have been focusing our time and energies on these past 3 months or so . . .

God has done so much over the last month or so! We have been blessed to see many baptized, healed, delivered from demonic oppression, and born-again! In this video I speak about what God has been doing in Fervent Fire Ministries over the last month. We have learned so much and grown so much and are so thankful to the Lord and for our brothers and sisters in the Lord from whom we have learned. We are so hungry to see more touched by the power and love of God and begin a real an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ!

Guys, it's been one heck of a year so far!  Thinking back on the last few months, because yes it has been a few months since I have written a blog, it seems like so long ago that we left for the United States and the future for us in ministry was still undefined and many unknowns.  Don’t get me wrong, we still have some unknowns and I think it will always be that way; i’m not really sure that we’re ever really supposed to have it all figured out. Believe me we do not have it all figured out! But the Lord did see fit to clarify some things for us along the way and if you are reading this blog right now you already are aware of some of them I am sure! 

Hello, everyone! 

This is my first time writing a blog post, and because so much time has passed since I’ve shared anything on Facebook about the sewing class, I have much to share and thought it would be better to blog about it (with the help of my loving husband).   

I think the last time that I shared something about the sewing class was before the birth of our sweet Seba. Even though Sebastian is an easy baby, life became a bit more busy, but the sewing class never stopped! I had only stopped sharing about what has been going on.

Below are some memories from the Fervent Fire Ministries Team of our time with Genesis, who recently passed away from dengue fever.

Genesis came to us back in 2017 as a 2nd grader and we were quickly won over by her sweet and quiet disposition. She was never one to draw your attention as she often preferred to allow others to do the majority of the talking and clamoring for affection. 

When I think back on our time with Genesis, it doesn’t take long for me to remember her sweet smile. Genesis was a happy little girl, and although a bit timid, it wouldn’t take you long to find that shy, yet genuine smile on her face if you spent a moment with her.

I’m so thankful that Jesus never gave up on me, considering me a lost cause.  His love pursued me and overtook me and changed my life forever. Still today I am going deeper and deeper into the love of God and I never want to get to a place where I camp out and say “ok, this is far enough”.

It’s my personal journey and hunger for the Lord that propels everything else in my life. Whenever I feel that my hunger and longing for Him, His presence, His holiness, His goodness is waning in me, I know to do nothing else but to run to Him and admit to Him yet again that I need Him and cast myself upon His mercy.