Brown, who swerved as a US Navy chaplain, US Army officer, and Air Force photographer, retired after twenty-six years of military service. He served as pastor eighteen years and has had a mission i...view moreBrown, who swerved as a US Navy chaplain, US Army officer, and Air Force photographer, retired after twenty-six years of military service. He served as pastor eighteen years and has had a mission in Ukraine for more than twenty years. He was educated at Trinity University, University of Hawaii, and Denver University. He graduated from Denver Seminary, Princeton Seminary, and Navy Chaplains’ Senior Course. He was ordained with Assemblies of God for fifty-two years. He resigned in 2010 from this denomination and affiliated with Chaplaincy Full Gospel Churches. He led the effort to establish an orphanage in western Ukraine, which has become a model in that region and is named after his mother. He is now helping establish another in Kiev. He and his wife, Donna, live in Sequim, Washington. They are both active in Dungeness Community Church.
Brown has made thirty-seven mission trips to Ukraine and Hungary in the past twenty years. His knowledge of Eastern Europe and the mass immigration of Ukrainian Pentecostals to the United States is reflected in this exciting novel.view less