Annie Armstrong Easter Offering 2025 – Week of Prayer Day 4
“We always joked that if the Marines wanted you to have a wife,” says Brittany Brown, “they would’ve issued you one in bootcamp.” Brittany understands both the humor and truth in that statement. She and her husband Joshua, who was an active duty Marine for 20 years, are missionaries in North Carolina where they planted a church near Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Now, God is using Brittany’s experience to share the gospel with wives of the Marines who are stationed there.
“There’s a saying in the Marine Corps,” Brittany Brown says, “that if the Marines wanted you to have a wife, they would’ve issued you one in boot camp.”
Brittany knows all too well the humor and hard truth behind this saying. Her husband, Joshua, was an active-duty Marine for 20 years. That’s why she knew what her role would be when they planted Pillar Church of Topsail, right outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. “My desire is to constantly be reaching women,” she says, “because with all the deployments and the constant moving from place to place, I don’t think the average person understands the stress there is on the military spouse.”
The average U.S. military deployment is between six and 12 months long.
For Brittany and Joshua, reaching military wives means day-to-day ministry often looks different than for other church planting couples. “We help a lot of families whose husbands and dads are gone,” Brittany says. “We mow lawns, or, if something’s broken, we help fix it. These wives desperately need practical help and community. This is our opportunity to tangibly share the gospel with them.”
NAMB, AAEO, Sneads Ferry, NC
Pray for…
- Acts of kindness and service to be done in such a way that gospel conversations will naturally occur.
- The people at Pillar Church of Topsail to find and connect with lost families in their community.
- Families who leave Pillar Church of Topsail when they are reassigned to other military bases, that they will find caring churches where they can grow in community.