User:Briankocourek

BIRTH
Brian Kocourek was born on February 14th, 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Francis A. Kocourek, Attorney, and Mary T. Kocourek, RN/housewife.

CHILDHOOD
Brian participated in various sports while in high school and college. In high school, he played for the 1970 Minnesota State High School Soccer Champions, John F. Kennedy High School.

In 1971, while attending Normandale Community College, he set several school football scoring records while placing 4th nationally in scoring for kickers. Later, he transferred to the University of Minnesota as a William Scholar and set varsity football scoring records as well as leading his team in scoring. He performed well enough to sign three one-year contracts to play professional football for the Minnesota Vikings.

Brian graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1976 received his C.P.M. in 1982. He has 30 years in Contracts and Systems Management; negotiating contracts, reducing material costs, and developing & implementing systems. His success covers 8 different industries; includes the health-care industry where he has negotiated savings for the member physicians amounting to 2.4 million annually. During this career he has reduced cost in excess of $79 million dollars.

He left professional athletics in 1976 after meeting the Reverend Lee Vayle, who later became his mentor in the ministry.

Brian is also an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati where he teaches business and computer classes. He also is Pastor of Grace Fellowship Tabernacle where his sermons have been translated into nine different languages, and has been a positive influence in the lives of pastors and their churches in 187 countries. Brian travels worldwide doing mission work and holding ministers' meetings several times each year.

MINISTRY
In March 1982, Brian began to pastor "Grace Fellowship Tabernacle" in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the next two decades, many doors opened to minister Bible Doctrine around the world. His ministry has taken him to every continent teaching the Bible Doctrine that William Branham taught and establishing ministries around the world in the Message Doctrine.

Brian is the author of http://www.messagedoctrine.net where the teachings of William Branham are available. These Doctrinal studies have been translated into 9 languages. The Message-Doctrine websites have gone into 187 countries around the world.

The creation of the http://www.MessageDoctrine.net website led to many requests from ministers all over the world for his own sermons, and therefore the website http://www.Messagedoctrine.com was created in 1999 where the sermons of Rev. Brian Kocourek and Rev. Lee Vayle may be viewed.