Jason Brown

God has blessed me to compete in Football at the highest level professionally for 7 years. 4 years for the Baltimore Ravens and 3 for the St. Louis Rams. In my seventh year, with the Rams, God revealed He had something greater in store for me and that my family should move back to my home state of North Carolina and start a farm. This really caught us by surprise because we knew nothing about farming.

It was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made but in April 2012, I decided to step out on faith and walk away from my career in the NFL. In obedience, we started looking for available farmland. This is when my wife Tay and I made a covenant with God and told Him that whatever place He blessed us with, we would name it First Fruits Farm and that His people, our neighbors, would receive the first fruits of whatever is produced from the land.

In October 2012, God poured us out a blessing greater than we were able to receive in the form of a beautiful 1,000 acre farm in Louisburg, North Carolina. Little did I know, the hard work had just begun. We labored all of 2013 getting the farm back into shape and applying God's plan as he revealed it to us. We ultimately incorporated First Fruits Farm into the Mission of our first ministry "Wisdom for Life" and that's sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ by sharing our hearts first and serving our neighbors with love.