Father and Son Brown Church Development Group traces its history back to 1962 when Jim Brown founded Jim Brown Construction, Inc. in Holdrege, NE.  As a general contractor, Jim and his staff constructed a wide array of structures over the next twenty years.  Indeed, the company soon enjoyed a lasting reputation for quality work, solid reliability and unmatched integrity.  It was during this time that Jim’s only son, Todd, joined the family business after school and during breaks.  Following high school, Todd attended the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where he played football and studied Engineering/Construction Management.  In 1988, Todd returned to Holdrege to join the familyconstruction business full-time.
	Call to Ministry After completing a dozen churches between 1980 and 1995, Todd felt led to the ministry of building churches exclusively.  Refocusing the business to address the needs of growing evangelical churches led to several innovations. In 1996, Design Associates, Inc. was created to employ the often touted design/build process, whereby one organization both designs and constructs a proposed facility.  Most recently, in 2000, the company added a consulting division and began offering an integrated system of consulting, architecture and construction that allows ministry to dictate the design.
	Applying a Belief System to the Process Today, Todd Brown is President and CEO of Brown Church Development Group.  The company continues to apply a belief system to the process of building churches.  In fact, it has flourished as an unparalleled faith-based church developer, using an integrated consult/design/build process to keep ministry at the center and produce high quality structures on budget and on time.  Brown Church Development Group operates between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes regions.  In January 2000, a regional office opened in Algonquin, IL; and in January 2007, corporate headquarters relocated to Kearney, NE.  With a growing staff of nearly 40 employees.
	Growing God’s Kingdom Because of its unique approach to and success in steering hundreds of churches through the development process, Brown Church Development Group has been asked to extend its ministry to teaching and conducting seminars at district and national conventions of the Berean Fellowship, Evangelical Free Church of America, the Baptist General Conference and its affiliate, Team America.  Brown Church Development Group also enjoys preferred provider status with both the Evangelical Free Church of America—an organization of 1,300 autonomous churches in 45 countries—and the Willow Creek Association—a ministry of more than 11,000 member churches from 90 denominations in 45 countries.  Above all, Brown Church Development Group represents a lived faith, a personal and professional ministry of building churches for God’s kingdom.