Here’s the scoop on Ruth and me: we’re missionaries with Project AmaZon that are supported by churches and individuals like you who have a heart to see disciples made in the Amazon Basin – many of the villages in the Basin have never heard the Gospel or have any kind of evangelical church. Several years ago, when we announced our intent to become missionaries, I started this blog so that our family, friends and supporters could keep up on our most recent news, prayer requests and needs. It has turned out to be a great communication and partnership tool! (Plus it is fun to keep it up).
I’m working with PAZ to develop excellent media communications to let our supporters know how they can best pray and partner with us – and do all of this in an exciting way, because what God is doing down here is just plain exciting – a huge movement to reach the Amazon Basin for Christ! That means constantly presenting our current projects, church plants and prayer requests with quality.
In order to communicate anything effectively, one needs to know it personally, and so Ruth and I are very involved with our local church, leading cell groups, discipling believers, going through all the steps we encourage each and every believer here to do.
In our local church, Central Church (a church of over 20,000 believers), I am involved in worship ministries and work with translating, writing and producing worship music in Portuguese. In English, we’re blessed to have not only lots of great music being written every day, but also a rich heritage of great hymns and songs with which to worship God. In Portuguese, these resources are much fewer, and so there is a real need for quality worship songs to exist in Portuguese.
The support we receive goes not just to our living and traveling expenses, but also to our ministry opportunities. These opportunities include helping out poor families in our cell group, buying equipment and software for doing my job with the mission, etc. We also are thrilled to help our church in the construction of a huge new project, a new church building that will seat over 12,000 people! Our church’s goal is to have 70,000 disciples (PAZ has over 500 churches, this being the largest) and serve as the disciple training and sending center of the Amazon Basin! Whew!
I have no doubt that your prayers and financial gifts will reap rich, eternal rewards in the fertile soil of the Amazon! If you are interested giving, you can do so through Project AmaZon, either online or through automatic debit, check, etc. Click here to go to the PAZ website and find out more. I’ve purposefully designed the new PAZ site to be a super easy site on which to donate! 
And make sure to keep checking both websites for our latest updates, pictures & videos. Who knows- maybe it’ll even work out for you to visit us personally and see it all for yourself!
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