Operation Breaking Through

About Us

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9296 Warwick Boulevard
Newport News, VA. 23607
Phone: (757)245-7376
Email: ceo@obt.hrcoxmail.com

Hours of Operation
Monday thru Friday
10:00am to 4:00pm

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16 Years of Helping Hands

2004 Expenses

2004 End of Year Report

2005 Organizational Review

2006 Calendar

Chief Administrating Personnel:
Executive Director - Rev. Kevin Brown [

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Executive Administrator - Mrs. Norma Brown
General Program Manager - Ms. Barbara Wallace
Special Program Manager - Mr. Russell Mitchell

Advisory Board Members:
Pastor Bobby Collins, World Outreach and Worship Center
Pastor Willis Boyd, Crossroads Church of Deliverance
Bishop L. W. Francisco III, Calvary Community Church
Elder Gary Ham, Elim Fellowship, New York

Board of Directors:
Chair - Pastor Kenneth McDade, Rhema II Christian Center
Vice Chair - Pastor Calvin Durham, New Hope Church of God In Christ
Treasurer - Pastor Raymond Johnson, Zoë Community Church
Secretary - Pastor Mark Johansson, New Covenant Church
Bishop Lawrence Lewis, New Life Church
Pastor Howard E. Heard, Emmanuel Baptist Church
Pastor Gerard Ruff, Cornerstone Assembly of God Church
Mr. Greg Garrett, Garrett Reality

Operation Breaking Through (OBT)
is a non-profit 501 (c) (3)
humanitarian organization
based in Newport News, Virginia, USA.

Our History:

Operation Breaking Through (OBT) is a community development plan that unites evangelism and social action to produce wholistic solutions for At-Risk community problems. It collaborates public, civic, and over 84 church leaders in a proactive effort to affect positive change in over 73 primarily low-income housing and trailer park communities’ servings over 20,000 people throughout Hampton Roads annually.

Since 1989, the OBT network of churches have been instrument to revive moral and spiritual values; restore self-respect and esteem; and empower communities with life skills to achieve greater self-sufficiency.

Vision: To be a life-giving network of local churches that are empowering disadvantaged communities through need-based evangelical outreach.

Mission Statement: To exhort, equip, and engage local churches in long-term transformational relationships with disadvantaged communities of Hampton Roads.

OBT visionary, Bishop Lawrence Lewis, was recognized by President Bush as OBT was honored as one of America’s 1000 Points of Light. His vision was to see whole communities transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ through needs-based evangelism.

Re. Gary Ham, Director of Missions, Elim Fellowship NY, served as Executive Director of OBT for 13 years. He envisioned the poor and downtrodden communities of Hampton Roads revitalized through church evangelism and social action.

Reverend Kevin Brown, current Executive Director of OBT, envisions Hampton Roads churches united in the wholistic evangelization of at-risk communities throughout the Peninsula and Southside of Virginia. Together with his wife, Angel, they have successfully partnered in numerous ministries throughout the world resulting in thousands of souls receiving Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior.

Reverend Kevin was born again the summer of 1963. From 1982 to 1985, he served in street evangelism, soup truck, door to door, nursing homes, hospitals and prison ministries. He was ordained and licensed as a minister of Gospel in 1986.

During 1986 to 2002, Reverend Brown served as Senior Pastor, Gospel Service, Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany; President of the Lay Leader Fellowship for Gospel Service Churches in Europe & Turkey; Assistant Pastor, Gospel Service in Keflavik Iceland; Associate Pastor, Christian Faith Center, San Angelo TX; Youth Pastor, Living Way Christian Church, TX; and as Prison Ministry and Children’s Church Leader, Word of Life Christian Center, HI.

In 1989, Rev. Brown completed a mission trip to Kinshasa Zaire, Lagos, and Benin City Nigeria. Where he preached to thousands of Africans including graduating seniors of Arch Bishop Edahosa’s Seminary. From 1989 to 1992, at the birth of OBT, Rev. Brown served as the first Coordinator for Wood Song and Newsome Park Apartments, successfully evangelizing hundreds of disadvantaged families.

In response to the call of God on his life, Reverend Brown retired in August 2002 after 26 years of active duty service in the United States Air Force. He served in numerous supervisory, managerial, and leadership positions throughout his distinguished career of USAF Ground Safety. The culmination of his faithful service resulted in him being inducted in the USAF Safety Hall of Fame. Currently, Reverend Brown serves as youth pastor and Minister of Evangelism at the New Life Church, Hampton VA. He is married to Norma “Angel” Brown of 26 Years with one son, Isaiah Michael Brown, who is 13 years old.