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Lary Brown

Florence and Reedsport Church pastor

By Lary Brown

  • Unique Gifts and a Heart for Service

    September 01, 2007, by Lary Brown
    "This is what we're here for—to be of help and to serve others," says Florence Bell, leader of the staff at the Dorcas Boutique on the Gladstone Campground. The Dorcas Boutique shared a building this year with Women's Ministries, just across from ...
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  • Poland, Priests, Popes and Preaching

    September 01, 2005, by Lary Brown
    The six of us from the Florence (Oregon) Church who arrived in Poland on March 29 had done everything within our power to prepare for our twin evangelistic campaigns. Months of training and planning were behind us. We had carefully researched the ...
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  • One Tuesday in Tura

    December 01, 2004, by Lary Brown
    Last of two partsWe were four nights into our evangelistic meetings in Tura, a city of 60,000 in northeastern India, and things didn’t look too rosy. We had started with a good crowd on Friday evening, then watched attendance dwindle away noticeab...
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