News & Updates
If you are seeing this blog post then you probably live in a household with multiple copies of the Bible at your disposal. How would you feel if they were all taken from you? Do you treasure God’s word enough to even notice?
Pastor Timel Mikilis. He is Sateré-Mawé and ministered to Christian Life and Leadership discipline for our Sateré students (around 35). This class was a milestone for our seminary, as Sateré students were able to receive the teaching with material in their own language and also with a teacher speaking in the Sateré language.
Making new disciples often leads to training new leaders to help reach even more new disciples. We are always looking for potential new leaders that will help transform their community as well as others for the kingdom of God.
Our mission statement is a simple declaration of our process to fulfill the great commission. As we approach the end of the year we would like to tell you how we did at each of the three steps. Today we want to look at: MAKING DISCIPLES.
The annual festival in Parintins is an awesome opportunity to share the source of our joy to a world that is searching for joy in the pleasures of this world. We are so thankful for the dedication of our ministry partners at
Our annual youth camps are an amazing experience for the young people in the communities on the river. It is always a supportive environment where teenagers can grow and develop physically and spiritually.
This years location was in the Guarabi community, close to the municipality of Nhamunda (AM).
Would you spend 10 hours hiking in the woods and another 22 hours on boat to receive Bible teaching? This is what brother Aristides faces to attend leadership training
When God changes the live of one person it can be really contagious and lead to a transformation throughout a community. Our nurse and missionary, Francineide Sicsú, tells a little of the transformation that God is making
It's almost 10 hours of travel The current was too strong and the river was getting deeper and deeper. Some sections were hard to pass because of fallen trees and many submerged trunks in that dark, freezing Andirá waters
We are so thankful: Many of you came to serve on the first mission trips since the pandemic, Many of you found that even the remote Amazon region was greatly affected including the logistics of getting here. Many of you served on a special medical boat that was on loan from the government.
Deicimar Shabc Mayuruna, missionary, father of 3 children, married to Marly Duni Mayuruna, lives in the Fruta Pão indigenous village, located in the Vale do Javary-Alto Amazonas area of isolated Indians. Deicimar was reached by the Lord through the missionary Moisés Mayuruna in 2016 and has grown spiritually to became a leader
My name is Ronaldo Marubo, I am married to Marvia Marubo, father of two girls Dânica and Adriele, I currently work with my Marubo people in the Upper Solimões. My family and I live and serve as local leaders in the same village where we grew up.
Andreize started to come to a women’s Bible study that Amazon Vida leads every week in Maranhão. Jobson also came to some men's Bible studies with a couple of mission trip teams (Americans and Brazilians) that we took to Maranhão.
Life in the communities that we serve on the river is full of challenges and you know that anywhere you find difficulty you will find people attempting to handle it in negative ways especially when they don’t have the hope of the gospel. The community of Terra Preta is the same way, that’s where Marcelo grew up with his brother Auliandro, aka Lico.
Training local community leaders is a fundamental task for Amazon Vida. We know that the gospel and the transforming power of Jesus will reach distant places in the Amazon more effectively through indigenous leaders. Our local leaders know the region well and are able to contextualize and communicate
The Chief of Molongotuba heard that we had sent food bags to a neighboring village and asked why the Baptist Church was not helping feed his village. So, when we received resources, we gave a food bag for every family in Molongotuba. A