Fist off I want to say that Rodney Howard Browne is eternally grateful for the opportunity to come to R.B.I.   Even though I have been a Christian for some 30 years, there is no doubt I was lukewarm at best. I knew I had to get back to my first love so my wife and I started a fast at the end of December 2010.  We hadn’t watched T.V. for some three and a half years but for some reason I turned it on the evening of January 2, 2011 and there was Pastor Rodney.

I almost didn’t recognize him because it had been several years since I had seen him and obviously he had lost a huge amount of weight.  We had watched for only a few moments and we knew we had to come to Florida to check out this Great Awakening thing.  We flew down from Montana for the winter camp meeting and got hooked.  When we came back home, even though we didn’t have a church home we immediately went out and started winning souls.  That was back when the states were just lighting up and we got the first souls in Montana!  Hallelujah.

We were watching on February 28, 2011 when they first announced they were giving away scholarships and we lost it.  The wife called twice that night and once the next morning to make sure they had our names.  We both felt this was our last call so we had to come no matter what. Hesaid that the enemy naturally wasn’t big on the idea, for a while there we thought we must be the only to coming because everything went wild.  We finally decided to put some suitcases in the car and just leave.  We got here three days before school started and all I can say is “you’re stuck with us now.”