About the blogger

Ronald Brown

• is a son of Africa, having been born in the Belgian Congo of missionary parents – a Mennonite mother from Saskatchewan, Canada and an Australian father
• has a collection of African stamps – the oldest from the first series published in the 1800s in the Congo Independent State prior to its colonization by Belgium which he purchased for $20 in Brussels.
• has visited 48 countries
• spent his first fifteen years growing up in Africa
• as an adult has resided in four African countries: Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal
• has a leather bound edition of Henry Stanley’s “Through Darkest Africa” published in Toronto in 1878 which he discovered in a used Calgary book store
• earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Calgary in 1974
• is the creator and editor of http://www.globalvault.ca
• worked twenty-six years in kingdom work in Africa
• worked thirteen years as a missions coach in the Alliance Alberta office until 2019
• taught Cultural Anthropology courses at Ambrose University
• earned a Doctor of Ministry degree in World Christianity from Trinity International University in 2005
• co-edited with Charles Cook a trilogy on Canadian Alliance missions
• edited the ON MISSION series which includes eight volumes of missionary biography, member care, theology of mission, development and a primer for new workers.
• loves his community of faith in SW Calgary
• reads Wilbur Smith and Jeanette Windle novels.
• listens to anything acapella
• relishes in God’s many blessings to him
• exists to coach and empower global Christians to fulfill the great commission by facilitating care, mentoring, training and resourcing.