Invitation to a Primary presentation brings a father back to Church and a family sealed together

Josh Brown of the Liberty Missouri Stake credits his family and a loving invitation for his journey back to full Church activity

Published: April 17, 2025, 5:22 p.m. MDT

The Brown family stands with three full-time missionaries on the day of their baptism in June 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. — The Browns stand with Elder Blake Robinson, Elder Zach Parker and Elder Preston Henrie on the day Josh Brown baptized Christina Brown and Ayden Brown in Kansas City, Missouri, in June 2018. Elder Henrie is Josh Brown's nephew from Utah who was serving in the Missouri Independence Mission permitted to attend the baptism. Provided by Josh Brown

Josh Brown, of the Oak Grove Ward, in the Liberty Missouri Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spent years away from Church activity.

“I was inactive from 1997 to 2018,” Brown said. “That entire time I knew the Church was true, but for whatever reason I just couldn’t come back.”

His journey back started when a friend invited his wife and children to come to a Primary presentation in sacrament meeting.

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