Roy Brewer returns to Malta Oct. 20-through-23

Roy and Arlene Brewer are sometimes hard to catch up with and last weekend was no exception.

"We are on our way to Spring Falls, Idaho, for a special conference I am speaking at," Roy said in a phone interview somewhere on the highway between the couple's destination and their home in Graham, Wash. "I will be doing a spiritual emphasis at the church there."

Traveling and teaching the Word of Jesus Christ is nothing new to the couple who has been married for the past 58 years. The couple has planted over 60 churches across the globe in such exotic locations as Mexico, South America, Cambodia, and the Philippines over the 30 years.

Roy and Arlene graduated from Northwest University (Assemblies of God) and for the next eight and a half years they traveled the USA as Evangelists. Almost nine more years were spent as the Youth and Education Directors for the State of Montana. During this time Roy also served on the National Youth Committee, was Regional Director and took teams overseas.

The Brewers first came to Malta in the 1960s to talk about spiritual emphasis at the Assembly of God Church, have been to Phillips County nearly a dozen times since then and return here on Monday, October 21 to once again speak at the Assembly of God Church during a four-day stay with events at the church each day. They will give revival service and special meetings at the Malta Assembly of God Church, two times on Sunday, October 20, for 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. services, as well as three more days following at 7 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (October 21-22-23).

Roy said that he was not raised in a Christian home at the beginning of his childhood and his family was very chaotic and dysfunctional. He said his father was an alcoholic and around he teenage years his mother felt the family was about to fall apart.

"And then, out of the blue, my mother really figured we needed to make a change and one day she put us in the car, and we went to church," Roy recalled. "And we never went to church. We weren't church people. My parents both had personal experiences with Jesus Christ in a very powerful way that changed their lives and set my father free from alcohol and our lives all became changed in a very beautiful way."

Roy said that first visit to church was the start of his family's spiritual journey and, as luck would have it, the start of the courting of his eventual bride to be, Arlene.

"Arlene's parents became the pastors at our new church in the small town of Electric City in Eastern Washington," Roy said. "Eventually the drunkard's kid married the preacher's kid."

Roy and Arlene dated through portions of high school and then college at Northwest University. The couple were married in 1961, had children, and in 1979, the Brewers became pastors of a large church in the Metro Denver area where they pastored for six years. By the time their children went off to college in 1985, Roy and Arlene went full-time in Evangelism and have preached camps, conferences, seminars and Spiritual Life Crusades from sea to shining sea and across the fruited plains.

Of their upcoming trip to Malta, Roy said people who hear his service should expect strict and balanced Biblical truths as opposed to his opinions.

"Jesus said, 'I have come so that they may have life' because 'I am the way, the truth, and the life,'," Roy said. "So I am very strict in preaching and this particular series that I am going to be doing in Malta is chock-full of the Word And connecting things so people will understand why the Bible requires of us to live this kind of life rather than just standing up and saying 'you'd better do this or else.' You give a Godly, Biblical explanation so people can make really good choices in their lives."