Before going to the Amazon, I had traveled to Albania with CRU to evangelize to high school students through English camps. During my first trip to Albania, I had chills hearing familiar worship songs being sung in Albanian &
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Slow river boats hinder our ministry. Some of the students that attend our training centers travel for two days on the river to attend. Those students aren't the only…
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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.
I have come to the conclusion that the Amazon trip was equally a time to share God’s grace and the Gospel as well as a time of growth for me. Maybe I had to be away from everything to learn, this is where I saw God working the most.
Trip leader Bryan Gibbs reports on how amazing his first post covid trip on the river was:
The time we had in the villages was very sweet but one of the hard things I heard twice was, “when your team didn’t come in 2020, we thought you had forgotten about us”
Construction of a church in the Amazon region is not an easy task. In many regions, construction supplies need to be purchased in cities and taken by boat to the community, taking
Would you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert? I would say I am extroverted in my interactions but introverted in nature. What I mean is - I love people: getting to know them, talking with them, building friendships. But I NEED plenty of alone time to recharge and reset.
Looking back on the mission trips I’ve taken to Brazil, it’s difficult to pick one memory to write about. The Lord worked in so many ways, through so many people, and in so many situations that one memory won’t be able to incapsulate the true experience of these mission trips.
Over the last decade and a half, I’ve been fortunate enough to hop on a boat and journey down the Amazon river with the purpose of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. So many memories! Everything from sleeping on
I look forward to every opportunity to go the Amazon for many reasons, but primarily because God always shows me something that I wasn't expecting or planning beforehand. This is both humbling and amazing to