Every year at the Baptist Mid Missions of Brazil’s northeast regional conference we give a report of the previous year’s activities. Here is our report for 2016. Furlough Missions is adventure. And as we boarded an Azul Airlines jet on January 20th, 2016, bound for Orlando, we were ready for a little less adventure. Behind…
A few days ago I shared some pictures of the preparations for the inauguration of a new church plant in São Luís, the Vine Baptist Church. Here are some pictures of the official inauguration, that took place on Saturday.
While a quartet at Fellowship Baptist were singing this song, young people at the Boas Novas Baptist Church in São Luís were offering up this praise (one of my favorites).
Francivaldo is a young man from the Ebenezer congregation. His calling to ministry was easy to spot when we arrived in São Luís, and God confirmed it by providing for his tuition in a miraculous way. On Saturday he graduated, and we are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with him in Maranhão. As…
A quartet sings a beautiful arrangement of “What Child is This” at Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland, Florida.
The Good News (Boas Novas) Baptist Church is the umbrella church for our Ebenezer church plant. Since early last year, Pastor Marcelo has been challenging this congregation with the possibility of opening another church plant. This week, they officially took up the challenge and opened the Vine Baptist Church in a very populous neighborhood. Words cannot…
Brazilian churches have a tradition that their American counterparts might want to consider adopting. When a member of the church receives a blessing, or an answer to prayer, they often call the church together–either in their home or at the church building itself–for a thanksgiving service. This is a sweet, genuine expression of gratefulness, and…
The Missão Auxiliadora Batista, or MAB, is a Brazilian mission agency that exists to provide infrastructure to Brazilian missionaries working in Brazil. During our first term it was my privilege to serve on the board of this mission agency. It is with great price, therefore, that I can announce that Francivaldo (center), the young man…
So for three months this year I had a job working for a natural gas company in upstate New York. I am very grateful for the opportunity, and, what’s more, I found the job to be a lot of fun. It was different from pretty much every job I have ever had, and I actually…
Hot off the presses! As I write this I am receiving pictures and reports from the Ebenezer young people about the area youth fellowship meeting held at our new facilities. Not only was there great fellowship and preaching, but a new directory was elected from among the young people. The president-elect is a young man…