BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Inside, Brent approached one of the people in charge and asked what was going on. The man explained that the meeting was a ministers’ conference, but that it was by invitation only. When Brent asked if he could stay, he was given permission. Brent jogged back to the car and explained to his wife and mother-in-law that he would be staying for the meeting. Once back inside, he was led to a seat on the front row. Out With the Old Brent recalled hearing one of the speakers explain how people have to “get the prosperity message out of necessity.” “Those words were embedded in my heart,” he remembers. “I was blown away. I didn’t have two nickels to rub together. I’d heard Kenneth Copeland on the radio years before, but I’d never been in one of his meetings. During the entire meeting I felt as though I was being hit in the chest by a spiritual battering ram. Everything I thought I knew was being knocked out of me.” Later, when he spoke with the man who had allowed him to stay, the man gave Brent a bunch of KCM teaching materials. At first, Hollie thought Brent must be having a nervous breakdown. That’s the only explanation she had for what was happening to him. The man she married had a short attention span. He’d never once been able to sit still through an entire movie. He always had to be doing something. Always moving on to the next thing. Now, Brent Nordan sat patiently at the kitchen table for hours at a time—listening to Kenneth Copeland teach. He would pause to look up every scripture and filled several notebooks. Who is this man? Hollie wondered. Brent still worked two jobs to support the family. When he wasn’t working, he sat at the kitchen table listening and taking notes. “I started quoting scriptures about wealth and riches being in my house,” Brent recalls. “I didn’t start believing out of greed. I believed in prosperity because I saw it in the Bible. Prosperity was part of God’s blessing to Abraham and to us. “I said in my heart: I will prosper. I will be a millionaire. I will be blessed. Our ministry will be blessed. I realized that God was the only One who could move me into my next place. “I talked about it to some of my friends. I told them that prosperity had been included in the blessing. They laughed at me. They mocked me. They told me that I’d never have a car without a payment. I insisted that I would and lost a lot of friends.” Another Supernatural Connection By March 2004, Brent and Hollie’s son Andrew had become an accomplished musician. He played in the jazz band at Boswell High School. They were performing at a chamber of commerce banquet at the Texas Motor Speedway. During the banquet, Brent and Hollie struck up a conversation with a couple who were in the insurance business. When the husband, Gary Stewart, asked what kind of work Brent did, Brent explained that he pastored a church of about 30 people, and that they were currently meeting in an elementary school. “I’ve got a place where you can have church,” Stewart told Brent. The next morning, they met to look at the property. Sitting on 12 acres was a building that was a large bed-and-breakfast, and a barn that had been converted for use as a dinner theater. “You could have church here,” Stewart said as they stood in the barn. While touring the house, which was 6,000 square feet, Stewart asked Hollie how she liked it. “I don’t know if I can live in this house,” she responded. “It’s so big and beautiful.” “Girl, your faith is too small,” Stewart told her. “You can bring your kids and move into the house. I want you both to meet me back here in a week and tell me what you can do. And don’t exaggerate.” BVOV : 15

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