Russell Brandt
Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Russell Brandt founded Beacon Church in a converted carpet showroom, doing his own sound and getting it wrong in front of forty people on folding chairs who loved him anyway. Now it seats ten thousand at a time. He is sixty-one, Erin's father, and a gifted pastor in the plainest sense: he remembers everyone's name, he notices when someone at the table has gone quiet, and on the big Sundays he walks out slow with no notes and his hands open at his sides. When an impossible peace settlement takes hold across the world, Russell watches his daughter's footage of it with wet eyes and says what he believes with his whole heart: God has done something.