Administrator Bob Brown
Following graduation from West Virginia University with a degree in business and marketing, Bob was commissioned as an Army Infantry officer. Ten years of military service saw multiple tours of duty in Vietnam, Korea, Presidential Aide at the White House, and graduate education at Purdue University
. It also marked a time in his life of further quest for perceived self-dependence and sliding away from Christ. Upon leaving the military to take a senior management position at Cornell University, and as his two daughters became so vital to his life, Bob once again turned to God. In retrospect he knows that was only a nominal commitment to Christ. That struggle with the Holy Spirit over control lead to crises and when his dependency on himself failed, dependence on alcohol followed. Sobriety in the early 80’s was God’s way of moving Bob closer to the one source of unfailing support for his life. Moving to LA to further his academic and business management career at USC, God’s plan for his life became clearer. Finally, in the mid-90’s, the Holy Spirit took charge as Bob re-dedicated his life to Christ. That re-birth lead to combining his business, administration, leadership and management skills, gifts and experience with a ministry call to Church Administration. Bob has come to VFC following a decade as church administrator for two large LA metropolitan churches. As a long-term resident of Marina del Rey with his wife Lynn Marston, Bob has both reduced his commute and readily determined that the Mission and Values, and especially the spirit of love and unity that he has seen at the Vineyard, make this the place his winding walk with God on earth has been taking him from the beginning.
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