Ministries
Urban Missions
In this ministry we look to go out into the streets to serve, share God’s love and disciple by serving side by side in our city. After the covid-19 pandemic hit God began to give us new strategies to reach out to those in need around us. Through that opportunity we began work in low income neighborhoods as well as high risk areas of the city. This opened the opporutnity for us to work in a high risk neighborhood with a large population of children that are exposed to prostitution, drug trafficking, childhood labor, child abuse and many other things. We are currently meeting weekly with them to building relationships, memorize scripture and teach God's word chronologically in a way that points them in Christ. This ministry has grown so much in the past seven years and continues to expand.
Future Plans:
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Expand our out reach to the mothers who participate through a small group bible study, work with the teenagers through sports activities and begin small groups in some of the families homes
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Prayer Walks/Movements at Porto dos Milagres where we are currently working with children in this high risk neighborhood
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Work with local churches to develop mission work in their neighborhoods
River Ministry
Doing ministry on the river is where our heart is because we see the need to reach out to the people that have no access to a local church or have not been reached with the gospel. There are thousands and thousands of villages in the our region of the Amazon Basin that have not been reached yet or clearly presented with the gospel. We work with evangelism by distributing a Bible in every home in partnership with YWAM’s Project “A Bible in Every Home” . We take Brazilian national teams out to be a part of this movement. We also work with personal, one-on-one evangelism and children’s evagnelism through Vacation Bible School programs.
Another part of this ministry is disciple making through teaching in small groups, one-on-one personal discipleship with pastors, leaders and other believers. An important part of discipleship that we develop is walking with others during their day to day lives and activities. Baptism is an essencial part in this ministry and God has given us the opportunity to baptize several new believers on the river.
In the community Passagem-Cadence we have planted a church body as well as another community close by that is the beginning phase of planting a new church called Coral Grande. We have also been working with several other communities to help strengthen the local church in these areas like Curuai and Costa do Tapará. These opportunities have allow us to beginning the initial steps of planting new churches in other communities close by.
Future plans
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Strenghten discipleship efforts by participating in further discipelship training
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Continue to plant churches in areas where there is no evangelical work
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Work with training for local leadership and disciple-maker training
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Develop a strategic prayer movement through buidling networks of prayer, prayer meetings and interactive prayer
Beyond...
*Partnership with local church's mission work
*Operation Christmas ShoeBox Amazon Basin
*Father & Son Camp Out