Josh Brown - Rythm Guitar

I am blessed to be the father of two wonderful childred, Brianna 10 and Austin 7, and a husband to the most amazing woman in the world!

I am going take a few minutes to tell you how I got here and what god has done in my life, so go grab a coke, sit back and relax.

I was born in the thriving metropolis of Dewey, OK (pop 1,500) in March of 1980 which, with the exception of a year and a half in Mexico, would be my home for the next 17 years. My love for music was birthed at the age of 8. My father passed the very guitar he learned on, down to me. Oh the bridge was pulling up and the strings were half an inch form the neck but it was my very own guitar :) Most of my post teen life we were poor, baked potato, peanut butter and jelly poor, so I played the livi'n tar out of that box, until it literally fell apart.

My father felt called to go into ministry and missions when I was around 12. Growing up in the home of a minister is not easy to say the least, it is kind of like living in a fish bowl. Rather than accept responsibility for the position I had been put into, I became rebellious and decided I wanted nothing to do with religion or anything associated with it. Around the age of fifteen I became enslaved into pathological lying. I remember using religion as a cover telling my parents that I was making "restitutions", while using the family car to go visit my girlfriends. It only progressed from there to steeling the family car during the night to make night calls to my lady lovers. Needless to say at this point I was so rebellious I had no regard for my family or anyone else.

The chaos finally progressed to me moving out three weeks after I turned seventeen. From then on, life was a complete downward spiral. I was making loads of money in sales and had no regard for anyone or anything. No, I never drank a drop of alcohol or did any drugs but women were my sin. I lived a life any Christian would be ashamed to admit. I was so rebellious I had convinced myself there wasn't a God and that things just happened, kind of like Karma. Running from my past and the thoughts that haunted me, in March of 98, I moved to Indianapolis, IN. What I did not realize was that God was setting me up to know HE was for real.

One night I was at an event at the local college and had sung a song with some friends. This shy little cutie, Juls piped up and said that I had sung a wrong lyric. After my adamant response that I was correct and it must be here ears malfunctioning, she bravely challenged me to listen to the CD and invited me over. I was captivated. I don't think we ever listened to the cd.. Six months later I was married to what I would later find out would be the love of my live. I so wish I could say it was all "A Bed of Roses" and that life was chipper from then on out, but I still did not have God in my life, nor want any part of Him. Within that first year we were blessed with the first addition to our marriage, Brianna.

I am ashamed to say that my uncontrolled wildness continued for another year after we were married. After having all I thought I could take of marriage and verging on divorce I enlisted in the Army. God used the unorthodox disciplinary methods of the Army to each me discipline and what a wonderful wife I had, also that family was much more important than doing what I wanted, pleasing myself. During this time my heart had began to soften towards God as prayer was the only thing I could resort to in times of utter desolation. Even though my heart was turning, I still was not ready to give Christ control of my life.

On July 4th of 2002 my father passed away suddenly. Another tool God used in turning my heart. Coming back to music, I had literally not touched a guitar from the time I was seventeen. My love for music was still there but my inspiration was gone. It was that very love for music that God used to draw me to Him. I was invited to join a band "Soul Revival" by a man named Jerry Hay in spring of 2003. God used my friend, to show me that Christ really did love me and it was not about what I had done or what had been done to me but about what Christ did for me! One day I finally got it through my thick skull that I could never be good enough. I didn't have to be. Jesus paid it all!!!

I gave my life to Christ that fall day of 2003 parked on the wrong side of the road in my pickup truck. I was Saved I could not believe it. God had done for me what I thought would be impossible to do. Since then God has delivered me from the bondage and strongholds Satan had in my life. In April of that same year God blessed my lovely wife and I with my little protégé Austin.

Skipping ahead. After serving on the worship team for Lifeway Community Church as bass player, for about 3 years we were invited by my friend, pastor and mentor Craig Walker to move to Texas and help with a church planting ministry. Wow how God moves in your lives when you are in his will. Within two week I had sold my business and we were on our way to Texas.

Currently, Juls and I serve as the youth pastors at Fellowship Worship Center in Princeton, TX. God has truly blessed us and our marriage. It has been such a wonderful opportunity to be able to meet and play with Anthony, Todd, Kyle, Robbie, and Charlie in WWC! They are truly some of my closest friends. I believe without a doubt that God has put us together for a reason, and plans to use this ministry to reach this lost world, beyond what we could ever ask or think.

If you need to know the same Christ I do, the one that died for your sins too. Shoot me an e-mail and we will chat about the questions you have.

Josh