News from Calvary Chapel Rio de Janeiro
Dear friends of Calvary Chapel Rio de Janeiro,We hope that you all are doing well. The time seems to be flying by and one more month has passed that we have been able to see the powerful hand of God working here in our midst. It is truly a great priviledge to be able to be used by the Lord for His glory!
In May we started a Bible study with some Angolans. Truly we see God’s hand in it. It had been Pastor Alexandre’s and Russell’s (one of our missionaries) desire to reach Angolans for quite a while, and God lead the church leadership to live in a neighborhood that is full of Angolans, even of which many live in the same building as two of our church’s missionaries. Praise God for that! There are many Angolans who move here to Brazil to be able to work and find a better life. Angola is a very poor country in Africa, and is full of pegan worship. We invited a handful of Angolans to have a Bible study with us. The Angolans are many times treated differently and disliked here, so they chearfully excepted. God moved and the first study (through 1 John that Russell is teaching) two Angolans excepted Christ as their Savior! The next study five Angolans came. Please pray for these Angolans as we continue the Bible studies with them every Monday!
In May we also started going out into the street on Friday nights to evangelize. It has been an edifying experience for us to see God touching lives through that. Most Fridays we go to a place called the Lapa. It’s the place where the parties and drinking are held every weekend, as well as drugs, prostitution, and just about everything immaginable. It’s the same place where you see famous people, but at the same time all these other things. The heaviness of the atmosphere can be felt just being there. Praise God that there has been many seeds planted there through this evangelism. Matt 9:37,38 “Then He said to His disciples, “the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. “Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
Praise God for this opportunity to reach so many for Jesus! Pray that we could continue to minister through the radio since now the people who own the radio need to legalize their documents and fix the antenna. Because of these things the radio station will be closed for a while.
On the 27th of May the women of the church had a women’s tea at Pastor Alexandre and his wife Lílian’s house. Lílian taught a Bible study on being a godly women from the book of Ruth. The women enjoyed some good fellowship, good desert, and of course, tea. It was a blessing for the women!
Thank you so much for your prayers and support!
God bless you,
Calvary Chapel Rio de Janeiro
Praise report:
Praise God for openning up the door to minister to the Angolans and to be able to minister on the radio program
Praise God for brining this church more and more to maturity and to be more usable by Him
Praise God for recently being able to paint and fix up the church more
Prayer requests:
For the Angolan Bible study, that God would firmly ground those who accepted Jesus and that they would bring their friends and family
That God would bring people at the Lapa from darkness to light and bless the evangelism
That God would make the way for the radio program to continue, as we believe it’s His will
If you would like to be a part of the financial support for Calvary Chapel Rio de Janeiro money can be sent to:
Calvary Chapel Corvallis
P.O. Box 965
Corvallis, OR 97339
(note on the check or included a note – Calvary Chapel Rio de Janeiro)
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