When Wallace and Mary Brown moved to an impoverished part of Birmingham England to pastor a dying church they didn rsquo t know that a gang had made the grounds of their church and home its headquarters The Browns had bricks thrown through their windows their fences set on fire and their children threatened The abuse continued for months the police were unable to stop it The book of Nehemiah recounts how the Israelites rebuilt Jerusalem rsquo s broken walls When locals set out to ldquo stir up trouble rdquo threatening them with violence Nehemiah ndash the Israelites ldquo prayed [... more]