Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!!!

November Activities

This month we are visiting more than 15 neighborhoods and cities. The teams are going full speed! One of our teams is working in Rio de Janeiro. There, violence and drug trafficking is very heavy! Another team will be in Rio Grande do Sul, where people are very closed in regards to faith in Jesus. Rio Grande do Sul is the number 1 state in Spiritism and where most of the witchcraft centers are. We will be sharing Jesus with them too!

More prayer requests

Prayer request: Please pray for Manu (Emanuelle), Pr. Marcos' wife. Her health is weak.
Por favor, orem pela vida da missionária Manu (Emanuelle) esposa do Pr Marcos, ela têm a saúde debilitada.

Prayer Request

Join us in praying for a few requests:
We need more homes for those wishing to work with PV, so that they can relocate to Curitiba. In fact, our deepest wish is for a bigger place where we could have both lodging and parking, since the one we have is already too small for us. (more requests to come)

Logo's Report

During the month of July, Logos worked with a group called Jaspe, a theater and dance group from the city of Campos dos Goitacazes RJ, around the cities of Passo Fundo, Concórdia, Seara, Dionísio Cerqueira, Chapecó and Blumenau. Except for Passo Fundo (where we had school assemblies) and Concordia, all other events were of social work and impact.

During the social work in Passo Fundo, a 17-year-old girl had her hair cut by us. There she told us she has never been to a hairdresser. She was led to counseling where she heard the message of Love of the gospel.

(to be continued ;)

Alpha July Experience

The Alpha team worked for two weeks in Joinville, SC, during the month of July, together with a group of volunteers from TRANS 2010 (National Missions), young people who dedicated their vacation time to missionary work. This month was very rainy, which made our activities difficult. People there also are not as open to the Gospel, but we know they thirst for the Word of God. The Lord moved powerfully during those days, reaching several people and exalting the name of God.

"Yet when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!"

I Co. 9.16

Doulos' First Impact Event

We were so happy with the First Impact event performed by the Doulos team. It was the event we mentioned in the post below. The event hosted by the City of Curitiba had approximatedly 200 Americans working with us.

It was a dream come true to have our FOURTH bus be part of this event. This could only be possible with the help of each sponsor that has been helping us pay for our Doulos bus.

God bless your lives and thank you for your prayers!

Solidarity Day

On July 12th, Projeto Vida participated in the event called Solidarity Day in Curitiba. This event was promoted by the Fundação de Ação Social de Curitiba [Social Action Foundation of Curitiba] in partnership with the Global Awakening Ministry, an international ministry found in 1994 and led by pastor Randy Clark, based in Harrisburg, in the USA.

Click here to check out the City's website.

A message from Jackson

Hi, guys. This is Jackson, Projeto Vida’s missionary. Thanks to God, my transplant went well. It was all new to me since I had never had a surgery before… ever.

But since the beginning I could see God moving: in all the exams I took, everything was working fine, things were falling into place, and then the surgery was scheduled. I was very anxious and worried about how it would be, but God calmed my heart down. I had the transplant done and everything went alright. I can see much better now, not 100% because my problem was advanced, I was almost blind. But I feel God has healed me.

I only had the surgery in my right eye. Now I have to recover well, with lots of rest and using eye drops always. I have been living by faith and in the care of God. Now I will have a transplant in my left eye, so I would appreciate your continued prayer. I thank you in advance for all of them.

I know that when I enter the O.R. you, my brothers and sisters, will be praying for me, and that is what is keeping me strong. I will never give up and every day of my life I’ll always have faith that I was healed in the name of Jesus.

Sending a big hug to everybody and thanking you once more,

Jackson

Driving down the street

During our program performed by the Logos team along the side of the busy highway las month, a family drove by and saw the Projeto Vida bus. Attracted by it and curious to what was happening, the family parked the car and watched our presentation. At the end, they accepted the invitation to invite Jesus into their hearts. What a ride!!!

Doulos' First Trip!

Peace, friends.

A mission journey is always "crazy", because we never know what is ahead of us. But, by faith, we believe that everything that happens is part of God's plan.

This was the first trip made with Projeto Vida's new bus, which we named DOULOS. We took 45 missionaries on this trip, leaving Curitiba on Wednesday, June 2, at 11pm. It was a very long trip because it was the first and thus we don't really know the bus. Some unexpected things happened, (one of them was the shift stick being bad), but we finally arrived to Foz do Iguacu at 10am on Thursday.

We went there to participate in a missionary conference. This conference happens every two years, and is very good to help personal and ministerial growth. These were days of learning and blessings in the lives of our missionaries. We were hosted by the First Baptist Church of Foz and were very welcomed by our brothers and sisters in Christ.

As always, God surprised us with His miracles. It was no different in Foz. One day we were going to the activities and the bus broke down. When we got there, Pr. Miguel was parking the bus and a part that connects to the steering wheel broke. If this part had broken while we were driving the bus we could have had a very serious accident. But because God always protects us we understood this to be His hand freeing us from that danger.

The hardest issue was that this happened on Saturday night and all automotive part stores were closed and would be closed all Sunday too. We were blessed by our brothers at the church who took us by car to the church we were staying at. It took them many trips to get us all there, since we were so many. One of our brothers took us to a place that carried the part that broke and there we managed to get a new one. We bought it and Pr. Marcos replaced it and fixed the bus.

We went back to Curitiba by the grace of God, and with many blessings over us.

We truly thank you for all your prayers - they have been keeping us from many accidents.

We ask you to keep praying since this month (June) our teams will be working at schools, parks and streets in several places around Brazil.

Bell Shoals Visit to Brazil 2010

This picture is of one of the skits that our friends from Bell Shoals Baptist Church performed during this week of combined efforts with our teams. We were out in Curitiba and close by cities with our 3 teams. Alpha, led by Pr. Marcos, took the team led by Pr. Victor Flores. Logos, led by Pr. Eduardo, traveled with Rich Lazzara's team. And Agape, led by Pr. Rodrigo, took Paul Bolan's team.

We had a wonderful week with presentations at public schools, impact and social work at 3 parks, a visit to an indian village, an English school and a day of service at our headquarters.

The Lord was very kind to us and allowed us to see His work in so many occasions!

Thank you all for praying for all of us and for the many gifts sent to us!

Welcome DOULOS!!!

This is our FOURTH BUS! Bought by faith, following Jesus' command to GO!

Invest in one life - and it reaches many others!

We received a message we would like to share with you. It is from someone who has taken a bible discipleship study with us (lead by Pr. Wilson). Here we go:

"Peace of Christ, Pr. Wilson! Do you remember me? I took a bible study with you about five months ago. You sent me a wonderful book. My name is Gunnar Chaves, from Imbituba, SC.

I am writing to thank you for all your help. You sent me a Bible Course, a Christian book, some tracts (which have already been given out) and, I'm sure, you have prayed for me.

Dear Pastor, thank you so much. May God bless you greatly in every area of your life and I wish you prosperity for your spiritual and material life.

Today, after a little while, I already am a preacher of the Word of God and I have been doing it with effort and dedication. You are a part of that, and for that, I thank you once more!
Receive a big hug from this friend and brother in Christ,

Gunnar Chaves."

We have been supporting this brother by sending him tracts and Christian books.

Sharing what we see...

It is our privilege to be a tool in God's hands. Here are a couple of things we got to see during the week of evangelism at the beach:

During their evangelism at the beach, in the city of Ipanema, a woman suffered with the loss of her 17-year-old daughter who was depressive and ended up committing suicide. While she shared her story she cried a lot. One of the missionaries shared the love of God with her and the lady accepted Jesus.

During the social work in Pontal do Sul, many people approached the counseling tent searching for help. The activities were held close to an amusement park whose owner let PV get power for their equipment from. The owner asked the missionaries to pray for her. When they went over to the amusement park to pray, she gathered all her staff so that they could hear their testimony and join them in prayer.

To God be all the glory!

MIRACLE

...that is the word chosen by our missionaries for the work week during Carnaval.

The three "tanks" went down to coastal cities of Parana, Brazil, to work with the people who were down there looking for a good time. Three beaches were focused by our teams, and all 3 teams experienced very interesting situations and witnessed many miracles of God. During one of our rallies the rain was pouring so hard, but still people did not walk away and stuck around till the end, and then... so many of them accepted Jesus! More than 100 people accepted Jesus during that week.

Stick around for more details of the amazing things God did during Carnaval in Brazil.

Teams Commissioning

This Sunday our teams will be commissioned to go out on the mission field. Please, keep us in your prayers as we start our year in the work of the Lord.

You are SPECIAL

As we continue to pray for the upcoming Mission Training, we come to share stories we lived in the past year.

In the city of Apucarana, a lady deeply marked our hearts. She was homeless, and she told our missionary that it was because of problems at home. according to her own words, her life was complete sadness, she hated herself as a person and had no strength for anything. she said she couldn't remember when the last time she had a shower was. people were disgusted by her. In every word we could feel her deep anguish. the missionary then told her that God loved her very much and that she was a very special person to the Lord. The young missionary took her to the Projeto Vida bus and gave her some clothes and then put her in front of a mirror and repeated over and over again how special she was to God. They prayed together and she confessed Jesus as her Lord and Savior. (November, 2009)

Mission Training

We will appreciate your prayers for our Mission Training that will take place from Feb. 8 to 20 in Curitiba and its coastal cities. Our goal is to train and teach people to go out to the mission field with our ministry.

This training will be full time (classes in the morning and evening), with a theorical part (Feb. 8-12) and a practical part (a mission journey from Feb. 13-20).

Topics:
* History and Mission Overview

* Relationships with God and others

* Prayer and Intercession

* Personal Growth

* Missions

* God's Calling

* Meditation

* Social Responsibilities in Missions

* Evangelism Techniques

* Praise and Worship

* Dance and Drama workshop

We hope to have many participants who will be learning from God and answering His calling. Thank you for prayer for all our instructors, leaders, participants and families.