Ethan Bilbrey’s name keeps showing up in stories. But why?
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
RICHFIELD, Minn. — Nebraska. Tennessee. Minnesota.
I keep running into Ethan Bilbrey … and I keep quoting him in The Christian Chronicle.
The funny thing is, I had never met him — or even heard of him — until three months ago.
Scott Laird, a longtime Montana minister who serves on the Chronicle’s national board of trustees, introduced me to Ethan at the Equip Conference, hosted by York University in Nebraska in March.
Ethan did a two-year apprenticeship with Scott and the Great Falls Church of Christ before moving to the Minneapolis area, where he has preached for the Richfield Church of Christ since 2016.
The theme of the York event was “Hope for Churches,” so I interviewed Ethan about the congregation he serves.
“We’re like a lot of Churches of Christ,” he said in my Equip Conference story, “who have had better years in the past, who’ve experienced decline over the decades and want to see new life and hope and the Gospel continuing to spread and new disciples being made.”
This column appears in the online edition of The Christian Chronicle.
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