Scott Swanson
When Brian Hotrum arrived in Sweet Home in 2010 to pastor the local Evangelical Church, he was on familiar ground, both geographically and as a minister.
He’d grown up in the Evangelical Church, in which both his father and his great-grandfather had been pastors.
“We kind of go way back here, for generations,” Hotrum said, noting that ministers moved around more when he was young than they do now in the denomination. “So…