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!