Brazil
We have a long history of mobilizing and training in Brazil, with hundreds sent out over the years
Due to its territorial size, Brazil is considered a ‘continental country’. In addition to the numerous world mission challenges, there is also a mission vision within our country to reach out to the unreached or less-reached people in our nation.
In Brazil, there are many under-served ‘minority groups’, and the Brazilian Transcultural Missions Association (BTMA) recognizes eight main groups of the least evangelized in Brazil, seven of them are sociocultural: Indigenous people, Riverside people, Gypsies, Sertanejos (rural farmers) Quilombolas (descendants of Afro-Brazilian slaves), Diaspora peoples or immigrants and the hearing-impaired; and a socioeconomic segment: the richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor.
Our Leadership Team is a shared leadership format (field leader + three more people), in which each member has a role reflecting their interests and using their gifts.
We have developed a new vision of leadership and created plans and processes for a more effective and efficient team.
Who do we serve in Brazil?
We are working with riverside residents of the Amazon Basin Region (“Povos Ribeirinhos”), especially with the ‘Riverside Children’. We have a team in the city Santarém in Pará State. We also work with Warao Venezuelan Indigenous refugees there. In the city of Bauru, in the countryside of São Paulo State, we have a team working with Afghan refugee families.
How do we serve?
In teams that do outreach and discipleship with the ‘Riverside Children’ in communities that can only be reached by boat. We welcome and provide assistance (Portuguese lessons, documents for staying in Brazil, helping children access education.) We work with the support of a Humanitarian NGO that provides financial resources for refugees.
What is our vision for Brazil?
We desire to motivate and mobilize the Brazilian Church in the process of sending and caring for missionaries. We want to support the Church in the process of recruiting, training and sending workers to the most neglected or least reached peoples in Brazil and wherever in the world the Holy Spirit leads.
Ways to Serve:
Projects, Fundraising, Hospitality, IT & Communication, Training, Mobilization, Pastoral Care, Professional Assistance, Teachers of Specific Subjects (theology and missiology).
What skills are needed?
At this moment, we need people with skills in pastoral counselling, missionary integral care, digital mission mobilization (digital technology area), professionals with different skills who could donate few hours a week to support field and mission work (doctors, psychologists, dentists, lawyers, intercessors, pastors, professionals from different areas to work on the project team, people from social media, designers, etc.).
