Student Spotlight: Rafael’s Ministry

Two husband-and-wife teams minister at nearby Canaã Baptist Church: Carlos and Larissa, Neto and Sanábia. In response to my recent plea, they sent some pictures for me to post here. Carlos makes an important point Neto teaches the youth group Larissa with the children’s class Sanábia and her young charges Jam session! ______________________________ Did you…

Suzane, a first-year student in our deaf ministries program, sent me these pictures of her work with the hearing-impaired at the Diadema Baptist Church in Barbalha. Suzane interprets for the deaf during a service The deaf believers sit in the front row during the service _______________________________ Did you enjoy this post? Consider making a donation…

The following is the transcript of a recording made in 1955 by pioneer missionary Jim Willson. It was transcribed by our colleague Jim Leonard. It is surprising to see how much of the information is still quite relevant to the field today. I am posting it in its entirety, along with a few footnotes. We…

By my calculations, Itacyara and I are part of the third generations of BMM missionaries to serve in this part of Brazil. It is always helpful to me–especially when I am tempted to think that times are tough–to go back and look at how the first generation lived and worked. Recently Philip McLain–son of Guy…

Here are some pictures given to me by one of our students of the Intentional Discipleship seminar and Theologcial Conference. Here is another picture of me translating for John A. Stewart. Notice how I am “one with the microphone”. Every day we began the session with prayer for the progress of the Gospel in different…