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Joshua & Brittany Brown


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Gospel conversations come easily for Joshua Brown, who for 20 years was an active duty Marine. He and his wife, Brittany, speak the language of a military family and understand the stress that comes not just with deployments, but constant moving from place to place.

Several years ago, the Browns planted Pillar Church of Topsail in Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, located right outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Pillar Church is part of Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s church planting arm.

“More than 80% of our church is not just active duty military, but a lot of people in our congregation are special operators, snipers, intel, recon, and amphibious assault—it’s definitely a different dynamic,” Joshua shares. “If in the short time we have them, we can reach them with the gospel and then help them grow in their walk with the Lord, when the military sends them somewhere else around the world, now they’re a missionary who’s traveling . . . taking the gospel into places most of us will never go.” 

“That’s kind of a radical church planting and evangelism model,” Brittany laughs. “But I suppose ‘radical’ is how Marines do things.”

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Pray for Pillar Church and the Browns as they share the gospel and minister to families within the military community.