Visiting Camp Victoria

We had a great Christmas with my parents. The kids really enjoyed seeing grandpa and grandma!
We will be here at Camp Victoria till the 6th of January. I will be helping assemble a zipline and do some maintanence on the camp bikes.
On the 6th we return home and then on the 8th I leave on a trip with the Salvation Express some 1000 miles up north to take 10 doctors and dentists to help in a very poor region of Brazil. We will be assisting a Christian ministry up there for 7 days.
God bless you and may you have a great new year!

Prayer request

Please pray about the possibility os the Salvation Express aquireing a boat on the San Francisco River. This has been a dream of the board for some years. The San Francisco River is over 1700 miles long.
http:San_Francisco_River
The goal would be to assist poor communities on a stretch of 250 miles of river. The boat would serve as a floating Seminary, School, Health Clicnic and agricultura consulting office. It is a big project way beyond our power, that is why the board feels it is from God. Just as God told Gideon:

"The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many men for me to deliver Midian into their hands. In order that Israel may not boast against me that her own strength has saved her," Judges 7:2

The things God has for us are way out of our confort zone and well beyond our power or capability!

This is the boat that is in view for sale. Of course it is way over-priced and we do not have the funds but we are praying for God to give us the boat. It is big enough as well as versitale enough. So keep us in your prayers and remenber that God's plan for your life is way beyond your reach so that you must depend on Him and when you look back one day that you may say," The Lord did amazing things!"

News update

Hello everyone! Our trip to the Machakali reservation was cancelled due to some requirements the indians made. They wanted to distribute the food we took themselves and all clothing donated had to be brand new. Since those two requirements are out of our reach we postponed the trip till next year. After all our goal is to evangelize and help those who are poor, since such requirements were made these folks did not seem to needy. Hopefully next year it will work out to visit this area!

This weekend we recieved a group of Dentist and Doctors who came to serve in both orphanages we have here in town. The Salvation Express organized this event. All went well and many all the orphans recieved treatment. Many folks who live in the rural area also recieved medical and dental attention. Folks were impacted with the fact that people would care enough for the as to come and treat them for free. But that is exactly what Jesus did for us!

Moody Study goes on.

These past weeks have been spent mainly on getting my Moody Bible School material up to date. I hope to fininsh the material by the end of next year.
Telma and the boys are doing well. The boys will be on vacation the end of this month. They might go on my next trip up to the Maxakali tribe in December.
Thanks for your prayers!

November is flying by!

We are all doing well and busy as the school year comes to a close this month. Matheus and Max have adapted well to the new school and we have been very thankful for that!
I have been working a lot on the Moody Bible School training I have been taking. I hope to have my first 40 credit hours done by January. It has been a tough task studying again but God has blessed a lot. Next year I plan to finhis the other 20 credit hours that will be missing and with that get an Associate of Biblical Studies degree. Going to really need God´s help for that!
Next month we are organizing a trip with donations, doctors and evangelism to s different Indean Reservation some 600 miles away, the Maxakalís. Well God bless you all!!!

October trip to Xakriába Tribe.

Trip to Xakriaba Reservation

We are back from this very successful trip. The Lord protected us as we travelled and our families back home.

We were able to take many donations of clothing, toys and food. Best of all were the Bibles and Christian literature that the Brazilian Bible Society donated for us to take.

Our first stop was at the San Francisco River, were we worked along side a local missionary who ministers to the poor folks who live on the river banks.

The weather was very warm nearly 110F. We nicknamed the bus, "The Microwave of Salvation".

We visited an Orphanage for children ages 0-3 who have gone through starvation or have dratic health problems. There were over 30 kids and we were able to spend some hours with them.

At the reservation we visited the main school and gave out Bibles to teachers and High Schollers. For the younger children we gave out

Christian childrens material. In the evenings we had evangelistical events with plays, songs with an accordian and much more! The folks really enjoyed it.

The Brazilian goverment is making it ilegal for missionaries to go into these tribes. The reponsibility is falling upon the native Christians more and more.

Thank you for your prayers!

Upcoming trip!

On the 17th of this month we will be heading up to the Xakriaba Indian tribe. We are going with a lot of donations and Bibles to be donated. The trip will take around 15 to 20 hours. The financial needs for the project have already been supplied for! Please pray for protection for those that go and the families that stay behind.

New video of last trip!!!

Hello everyone,
Was able to finish our prayer letter yesterday, so next week you should be recieving it.
Here is the link to watch the latest video of our last trip.
September Trip
Enjoy!!!

All is well!

We have been busy these past days trying to get our website up and running.
A lot of time has also been spent with the two next trips we will be taking.
Last friday I passed my bus driving exam! That was a huge blessing.
Please pray for all the planning going on these next few days.

Our trip was great. It took us 36 hours to get to the Seminary we helped at. This Seminary is for Native Brazilian Indians only. We took doctors, dentists, a group of Christian pupputs and donations. At this seminary there are 19 different tribes represented. Each tribe has its own language but everyone speaks portuguese. Thanks for all your prayers!

Trip to Terena Tribe

Next tuesday (2nd) we leave on a trip up to an Native Brazilian Tribe called the TERENAS we return on the 7th. They have had tons of contact with civilization. The Express of Salvation will be taking clothing donations along with Bibles fromthe Brazilian Bible Society. A team of 8 and Doctors and Dentist will be going along. Please pray for us as we travel and for our families as they stay behind.

The past two weeks have been filled with work on the bus fixing it up for the next trips, taking driving classes to get my bus drivers liscence and working on the new web page for the Salvation Express. Matheus and Max are back in school and enjoying it. Our next trip is scheduled for the begining of September to an indian tribe 800miles away. We will be taking a group of doctors and dentist from a Brazilian Christian organization to work for 5 days at the tribe.

Latest Mission Trip

The Salvation Express had an awesome trip up to northern Brazil. We took a group of Doctors and Dentists. We also took up over 500 covers for the cold nights, lots of donated clothes and over 2000 Bibles donated by the Brazilian Bible Society and other folks and Churches. All went well and many people were impacted. We had Bible classes for kids with great results. Thanks for your prayers and support in the work here! The short movie has now been translated I hope you enjoy it!

We have moved again! Telma and the boys are doing fine and happy in their new surroundings. We are now living in the town of Ouro Fino (Thin Gold). Our move was one more step into joining a mission organization.

I have been working alongside the Express of Salvation for the past 8 months, a Non-profit christian mission that is 5 years old. They invited me to come and serve as their administrative coordinater and with trip logistics.

As I have mentioned before the Express of Salvation serves by organizing evangelistical trips to poor areas of Brazil and in locations that have been hit by natural disaters, taking food, clothing, medical help and most important of all the message of grace.

The board for this mission has been a big help in the past 4 trips I helped coordinate with the other ministry I was temporarily with. The other big bonus is that I get time off to finish this first year of Bible training I am taking.

I will have more info in my next prayer letter.

The website is being re-done and put into English also, this should be done by the end of August.

http://www.expressodasalvacao.com.br/

The trip up north was great. We were able to reach 2000 kids and teens in the group I lead. We traveled to many little villages out in country. The evangelistical events were held in schools and public courts. It was an intense time but the Lord took care of everything. Thanks for your prayers!!!

Event at schools and impacted participants.

Events held at night with Christian film.

We were surprised at how open the schools were

to let us have events in there school hours!

Countdown for Saturday Trip up North!

Saturday at 3 together with a group I leave on a trip to the same northern state I visited a month ago. Our goal is to reach as many kids and adults as possible with the message of the Gospel. We will be having evangelistic events in the mornings and afternoons for public schools and in the evening for all public. Please pray for protection for all those going and their families staying behind. The teams going add up to a total of 20 people. Pray that the soil will be ready for the good seed. We will also be distributing food and clothing donations with the Red Cross of Brazil. We come back 10 days later.

Hello everyone. The camp for poor kids was awesome. We were a little overcrowded with 130 kids ages 6 to 11. God sent some great volunters and all went well. Our theme was,"The eyes of the Lord are everywhere". Half of these kids were from the day care center and the other half were kids they invited.

This weekend we will be having a camp for the young kids of the child care facility. We have been able to gather volunters and should have enough help. The goal is for each child to bring a friend to camp. This program is sponsored by some christian businessmen and is free. Camp will go from saturday morning to sunday afternoon. Please be praying for all to go well and for the kids to learn more about Gods love for them.

The trip up to "Big River of the North" state went well. We were able to schedule 12 Evangelistical events. The challenge was that the area is very devout to many Catholic saints. One place we visited had a giant statue of a saint being built of over 173 feet tall! The trip had to be re-scheduled to the 13th to the 23rd of June because of a 10 day state holiday uo there for another catholic saint. We are looking forward to the trip and count on your prayers! We are now preparing for a camp for poor kids the end of this month. God bless you all!!!

Learn more about Rio_Grande_do_Norte

For all the videos of past trips on you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Aosconfinsdaterra

Fresh presentation from trip!!!

Your prayers made a difference!!!

Two of the many evangelizm events held in schools and little villages.

Bibles being given out, and truck and bus ready for another part of the trip loaded with evangelizm materials and donations.

Native kids gather around for candy, truck set up as stage for evangelism and Jesus movie.

Boat getting loaded with donations for folks who live on islands up the river 15 miles.

Finally made it back. The trip went well and we were able to reach many for Christ and also give the local Churches and Pastors the support they so desperatly need. Our group consisted of 29 workers devided into three evangelizm teams. My team did evangelizm events and also took care of the distribution of donations. We worked from 7:30 am to 1:30 am next day almost every day. It was an intense time but very rewarding! Thanks for all your prayers and support in this whole project. We estimate that around 12000 people were impacted with the Gospel. Many made a desicion for Christ and know we leave the growth for the Holy Spirit to work out. The next trip is scheduled for June.

Trip to São Francisco Valley BRAZIL!

Hello family and friends. On friday I head out with another 29 people on a 10 day trip to a very poor area I visited a month ago. Our plan is to reach 15000 people with the gospel with 25 evangelistical events. We will also be taking 66000 pounds in food and donations. Telma and the boys will stay behind since we just moved into a new house. The Brazilian Bible society gave us about 300 Bibles to give out. We also recieved a generouse donation to buy Bibles.

Please pray for the safety of all that are going and for all that are staying behind.

Thank You for your prayers!

We´ve been busy with Carnival camp. Have 132 young people from two churches at Refuge Camp. We are implanting the program so that takes extra work. Here are some photos of the Camp and of the climbing wall.

Found out the day before yesterday that we will be moving to another house. Our rent is paid by a family that supports us in that way. It is located close to a brother and sister of Telma´s. The boys are excited over being even closer to their cousins.

In one of the houses we visited there sat a little boy all by himself. It was a shocking site to see yet happy since he was not hungry. Poverty surrounds him yet he gave a little smile when I gave him some candies and toys we had taken. This is just one of millions of kids who have no other hope waiting for them other than a miracle from God.

Local Totem pole to scare evil spirits that travel the river...

Kids who live on an island in the river beside there house.

Me a friend (Leader of the Express of Salvation) and the Tribe Chief.

Hello everyone,

Sorry for taking so long to post news!

I Just got back from a trip to the poorest place I have ever been. It was shocking to see folks who do not have electricity, running water, live in a dirt hut and still have to travel 30 miles to get to the nearest town. But yet there they were happy to recieve us as we visited this area to prepare for the mission trip in the end of March. God blessed us a ton and all the events are scheduled. We will even be visiting an Indian reservation.

Thanks for your prayers and may God bless you!