2017 Summer at Victoria Ministries

                  Our summer kids and teen camps were great. We had over fifty kids for each week, most of them from non-Christian homes and many who had never come before. This made for an awesome opportunity for many to come to better understand the Gospel and others to decide to ask Jesus to come into their lives. Matheus was one of the counselors in the first week and had an entire cabin of non-Christian boys which were full of questions about God for him. The Bible teachers for the kids and teens did an awesome job along with the entire staff. The number of participants was a blessing as Brazil struggles with one of its worse years financially amid numerous political scandals involving billions of dollars and unemployment at 11.5%.

            Our Christian camp leadership training programs were also a success. As we are currently switching to part of the teaching being done through the internet and the hands-on training at Camp Victoria. We had fifteen students take our Outdoor Adventures Leadership Training and eleven take our online Camp Leadership Course. One of our students “Dionisio” came from the African country of Mozambique where he is a missionary with Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). They want to start using camp ministry as a way of evangelism. As Mozambique is one of six Portuguese speaking countries in Africa all our training material can be used by them.

Online Training Programs

We are starting February off with much work on improving the training website. With the first batch of students that went through the training we could hear from them areas that need improvement and see things that could be done in a more practical and dynamic way.

            One thing is for certain, the online training will broaden the reach of people that can take the courses Victoria offers tremendously.