Peniel Dourado

T oday I want to talk about the work carried out in the north of Brazil, in the state of Pará. In Marabá, Pará, we started a Support Point with the evangelist couple Nelson and Andreia. This couple serves the region in a Kombi that they have modified to make it a real home, as in many places there is nowhere to sleep, cook or have a place to rest. Thus, they transformed their Kombe into a "motohome" to attend evangelistic trips. Nelson and Andreia have supported many evangelists who are living in small villages in the Amazon jungle. They work during the dry season, as during the rainy season in the Brazilian Amazon it is almost impossible to drive through many roads. Several shipments of materials have already been sent to this Support Point, totaling 9 tons of printed material. The material is given out free of charge and the evangelists do the work by reaching out to families who are living in the middle of the Amazon jungle. I'm going to leave a video where Pastor Nels...

 We have been through many struggles in the mission field. Many have abandoned support, but we have continued to advance.

  Yesterday I received messages from evangelists who are in Uruguay. These warriors for Christ are so happy to know that we are working hard for their country. An evangelist seeing the many boxes with evangelistic booklets entering Paraguay wrote to me: "Pastor, Uruguay also needs the gospel" I went to find out why to use the expression "Uruguay also needs". Why "also"? Then the brother told me that the churches work in other countries and nobody looks at Uruguay. This same cry for help I have heard from evangelists in Europe. "Nobody helps us" - This is the phrase I hear constantly. I remembered that a few years ago a Brazilian missionary was in Spain and asked for materials for evangelism. I had the materials in our Support Base in Bolivia and I needed resources for shipping. So I went to talk to several leaders and they all denied help. The justification is that the people of the church do not want to offer in missionary work in Europe. Yester...

  EVANGELISTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM In the last few days I've been working a lot for our trip to Uruguay, but today I woke up with this thought: "What if you do evangelism in your city?" Yes, I'm talking about you reading this email. What if you take the written Word of God into your own city? Usually, when I encourage the brothers, the answer is: "Here in my city / or country, this type of work is not working." In South America tract evangelism works, but not here in Europe. In Brazil, evangelism using printed materials works very well, but here in the United States or Canada it does not work. Well I want you to look at the map right below Can you notice that in the south region of Brazil we don't have many Support Points? We have a Support Point in Paraguay serving the entire nation, we have several Support Points in the northeast region of Brazil and I want to draw your attention that the Support Points in the north and northeast regions of Brazil were sta...

  EVANGELISTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM I've been talking to several evangelists in Uruguay and looking for ways to get the materials out. Unfortunately, the two missions that send materials all over the world have no one receiving evangelistic materials in Uruguay. Thus, we discard the possibility of sending to some missions that already does the import work. Sending by Uruguayan post is complicated, as there is a fee to withdraw. That is, even if we pay the shipping, the evangelists will have to pay a fee to remove the boxes. Ecuador, Bolivia and other countries in South America charge this fee and it complicates the work for evangelists. You can tell me that every evangelist can look for ways to pay. But, brother, usually evangelists are poor people and use the little resources to get around and carry out the work, as well as their own maintenance. What we seek to do is precisely to place the written Word of God in the hands of evangelists by participating in the work they do. We have a ...

  EVANGELISTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM The year 2023 was a pivotal year for major design changes. This year we completely changed our work strategy, mainly in view of the great difficulty we had in serving the Support Points within Brazil. In 2021, we started opening several Support Points within Brazil, but the cost of taking materials to each Support Point was high. So we had the need to open Support Bases in strategic regions both for the delivery of materials within Brazil, as well as for distribution. The target has been to reduce freight costs and serve the largest number of Support Points and, consequently, have a greater reach of lives with the Word of God. I will leave a video below with one of the containers that we have received in South America. This video was recorded at the Support Base in Pailon in Bolivia in October 2020 and this is a 40-foot container with 4225 boxes with literature. This is just one of the missions that send materials for our project. In another email I c...

  Yesterday I received several messages from evangelists who are in the city of Juazeiro da Bahia. In 2021 we took 2675 kilos of printed materials for evangelism. I traveled to the region and spent three days visiting the Support Point giving instructions on how leaders should work in support of evangelists. The result was wonderful, as many groups were mobilized from various churches. There was an awakening to evangelistic work not only in the local town, but we started to mobilize groups from the neighboring small towns. Below I will leave the video with images made by the local brothers of the materials arriving in Juazeiro da Bahia. The video has subtitles in English, German, French and other languages Well, the material has already been used and we have had great results. During the year 2022 we received wonderful information from churches in very small towns in the region being mobilized and many lives being reached by the gospel. Yesterday the current leader of the Support P...

  EVANGELISTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM Since 2021 we started work in the northern region, but I realized that we would not make progress because the leader did not have a greater vision in the evangelistic work. We already have experience that starting a Support Point with someone who is focused on pastoral work will not advance further evangelistic support. Many pastors believe that supporting evangelism work won't be a lot of work, but it really is a lot of work. Thus, as is to be expected from pastors, the pastoral work of the church is prioritized and work in support of evangelism is left behind. Well, even so, the work was done a little slowly and was completed a long time later. The problem is that we will not have continuity, as we do not intend to continue working with the same leader there, but we pray for someone who has a greater vision in the evangelistic work. When God places the right person in our path, we will return to work in the region. Please pray with us on this goal. ...