Peniel Dourado

Let’s start with the obvious. Sharing your faith is a daunting task. We live in a culture that is increasingly hostile toward the message of Jesus Christ. And many unbelievers have a very negative perception of Christians who “proselytize”. In our relativistic and pluralistic culture, evangelism is a very unpopular practice. Faced with these obstacles, many Christians prefer to think of evangelism as an optional part of the Christian life. And we are very good at coming up with excuses, aren’t we? I don’t have time to share my faith. I’m not very good at talking to people I don’t know very well. I’m afraid I would get questions I don’t know the answers to. But these excuses are just that – excuses. Biblically, there are two rock-solid truths that answer nearly every excuse that we pull out. Drive these two truths into the hearts and minds of your church family. These truths will ground your church’s mission to reach the lost. God is at work around you. Much of the appreh...

In the Great Commission, Jesus Christ commanded us to, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”  (Mark 16:15) We should actively work to share the gospel with others. Pastors and evangelists play a special role by public preaching, but every Christian shares the responsibility for evangelism. We can share the gospel through one-on-one witnessing conversations, home Bible studies, and many other ways. Today, let’s talk about how to use one helpful witnessing tool—gospel tracts.   1 –  Booklets with the Gospel message Not all gospel tracts are created equal. The best gospel tracts explain man’s sin, the penalty for sin, and Christ’s substitutionary death. Be sure to get tracts that explain the gospel clearly. 2 –  Give out tracts to people you encounter in daily life. You can give them to cashiers, waitresses, doctors, or people at the local coffee shop. You can hand out tracts at public events—fairs, parades, and festiv...

People are always asking why we use the brochures. When I am asked with such a question I always remember that God continues to use Bibles to speak to so many people. I also wonder why there is so much contempt, indifference and even persecution for those who want to use printed material to reach sinners. The impression I have is that in eangelism you can use any method, except the written method. No, use no brochure! But why? Why the opposition? Why should we believe that a job that has been proven for centuries to be extremely efficient will be ridiculous? According to Billy Graham, “Nothing surpasses a tract for sowing the seed of the Good News.” Why should a Christian use tracts? Simply because God uses them. He used a tract to save the great missionary Hudson Taylor, as well as innumerable others. That fact alone should be enough incentive for a Christian to always use tracts to reach the lost, but there are even more reasons why we should use them. Here are a few: Tracts c...

I was looking on the internet for different methods of using printed materials in evangelism. Here in Bolivia the evangelists distribute the leaflets when they are with a group preaching, others just distribute the written Word of God. Other evangelists go to hospitals to visit the sick and after praying they deliver something from the written Word of God so that they can continue reading and feeding their spirit and others. But I went to look for other methods. I found a website where a store that sells evangelistic brochures ran a survey with the evangelists who bought the brochures. Well, there are 50 ways to do the distribution. I found a lot of interest and decided to share it with you. It is possible that in your region some of these forms are not permitted by law or you simply do not agree with some of these methods below. Well, everything is ok. It is possible that you have a totally different form than what I am going to put here and if you want to share with us it will b...

We received another 200 boxes with printed booklets by the World Missionary Press. In the video below I made a vlog showing a little of this special moment and when we took it to our Support Point here in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. I hope you watch this video and follow the activities here on the mission field. I remind you that the video is in Portuguese, but I have subtitles in English and other languages. So, activate the subtitle of Youtube for you to watch and read what we are talking about. Thank you for your gift on our blog. Pray for our lives and for this missionary work. Our aim is to reach lives for the Lord Jesus Peniel N Dourado

The Evangelistic Support Program has several Support Points inside and outside Bolivia. As I have already said in other posts, we started the missionary project here in Bolivia, but little by little we are taking this project to other nations. In Bolivia we have our first Support Point in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, another Support Point in Cochabamba, central Bolivia, and our third Evangelistic Support Point in the city of La Paz. At each Support Point we have an evangelist responsible for receiving the materials and supporting other local evangelists. Supporting evangelists do the work voluntarily and are from several churches. They are volunteers with their hearts dedicated to evangelistic service. I am going to show you a video where I take the materials to the Support Point in Santa Cruz de la Sierra that is at the home of Brother Henry Torres, leader of the Support Point in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. I hope you will watch and pray for this work. The...

In March 2017 we received a 40-foot container with gospel literature. I want to give my thanks to each brother who supports this great mission that is WMPRESS, the volunteers in the service at the base, those who help to send and others. I know that even this material is here, there is a great army of men and women who love Jesus and obey the Great Commission and are somehow participating in this service. May the Lord Jesus bless you all. And likewise we here in the field can say that the Lord has raised up a great army. Those who work with the documents to enter Bolivia, those who helped to remove the boxes from the container, each volunteer brother in this service. May the Lord bless you mightily. Keep praying for our lives The video is in Portuguese, but I added a caption. So, enable the subtitle of youtube so you can watch and read what we speak in English God bless you Peniel N Dourado

I arrived in Santa Cruz de la Sierra in 2007 and as soon as I set foot in this city I started to pray for a job target. I always learned that we must think of a target before going to the mission field, but our life was so fast, God spoke to us so quickly that we simply sold everything we had in Paraguay and came to Bolivia In Paraguay I worked with my brother-in-law Ebenezer with literatures. My brother-in-law had the aim of attending schools that were close to the road from the northeast of Paraguay to the south of Paraguay. It also aimed to serve the northern region, reaching Bolivia. We praise the Lord that this goal has been achieved. So, as I was already living in Bolivia, I thought about continuing the evangelistic goal of southern Bolivia (north of Paraguay) towards the city of La Paz. The problem is that we could not continue with the target of schools, because the school system close to the roads we don’t find here in Bolivia, but in every city the fairs and markets have...

Dr Francisco Gamelim is one of the distributors of materials printed by the World Missionary Press in Brazil. The main objective of Dr Francisco Gamelim is to support evangelists who are in the northeast of Brazil, a region in great need of the presence of the Word of God. For those who do not know, Dr Francisco Gamelim is my uncle and for me it is always a privilege to visit his home and share the great blessings of the Work of the Lord Jesus here in Bolivia where I work, in Brazil and in the world. In 2014 I was at my uncle Gamelim’s house and filmed a little of the work he does. I hope you pray for this work and that many other evangelists are supported inside and outside Brazil Thank you very much for your presence on our blog. I hope you enjoy it, help sharing it with others and pray for our work, as our goal is the salvation of souls Peniel N Dourado

This is our latest missionary video in video. It was posted on our channel in late 2018, but it summarizes very well what we continue to do here on the mission field. We remain on target to make the Word of God present to the people. Our main objective is regions where there are not many preachers and where the people have more difficulty in knowing the message of salvation. To do the work we are fully aware that we cannot do evangelistic work alone. So God led us to involve local evangelists in this work. We support the literatures with the work they are doing and consequently they are reaching regions of great need themselves. Below I leave the informative video. The video is in Portuguese, but you can activate the subtitle of Youtube to read in English. If you speak another language and want me to add a caption in your language, please let me know

We passed through the Bolivian border at the end of December 2019. We stayed for a few days in Corumbá and then went on to the city of Campo Grande. We visited some brothers, churches and friends. On December 30, we traveled to São Paulo and stayed at the home of Brother Marcelo Delfino. The purpose of this trip was to gain greater contact with Brother Marcelo, who is now working with World Missionary Press materials. For many years my uncle Francisco Gamelim has done this work, but now he is retiring and will probably be going to live in Australia. Well, how can I summarize this post? Certainly the trip was a blessing and I believe that we will be working together with Brother Marcelo and his wife Miriam in the best possible way, as they are people with their hearts burning for Jesus and for the souls they are losing. Below I will leave a video on vlog where I recorded a little of the trip, showed Marcelo’s house and talked a little with him. The video is in Portuguese, but...