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News Update on Brazil
With the Lord, timing is everything.The Lord has given us a relationship with the Reformed Anglican Church of Brazil to facilitate mission training for church planters in the Amazon Basin.Their mission training school will be using our International Mission Training material as part of the curriculum. Initially a five-day seminar was planned for September to launch the initiative.
However, as a result of several delays at the mission school, Gateway staff were unable to buy airline tickets and process Brazilian visas.
As always, we have to wait on His timing to move forward.Gifts that have been given for Brazil have been set aside until the time the Lord releases us to go.
Sending Out the Good News from Brazil
The Lord has given us all another opportunity to release missionaries to the ends of the earth.
Last January during the Winter Anglican Mission In America (AMIA) Conference, we were asked by one of the Reformed Anglican Church bishops in Brazil to come and teach at seminar in Sao Paulo.The Reformed Anglican Church has been in Brazil for 200 years but only recently have they incorporated a mission training school to identify, train and commission missionaries and evangelists for work in the Amazon River Basin.The initial goal is to establish 20 parishes and 20 mission congregations by 2020.
Bishop Josep also looked at the International Missions Training that we have used in Haiti and Uganda.He was delighted with it and showed it to the staff of the Center for Theological Education and Mission (CETEM) a newly affiliated mission training school in Natal, Brazil.They asked if they could translate it into Portuguese and if, in addition to the seminar in Sao Paulo, we could come to teach for a week at CETEM.
This opportunity will: ·Impact an entire denomination by incorporating a solid mission curriculum into the training of their pastors and missionaries. ·Facilitate examining in-depth the discipleship programs used and how that might apply to the work in Haiti, Uganda and other parts of Brazil. ·Help develop relationships and strategies to provide Portuguese materials to other ministries with a vision for reaching the 40,000 villages of the Amazon Basin. ·Allow us to strengthen and encourage Brent and Connie Gregory, missionaries we mentored onto the field, and explore ways to add mission training to missionaries along the Amazon River proper.
After prayer, we have set aside September to go to Brazil.Please ask the Lord how you can join GCWM in training missionaries from Brazil to the ends of the earth by giving to the Brazil Mission Training Trip.Our critical needs are: ·Airfare and transportation costs:$4400 ·In-country expenses:$2600