The ministry in the schools continues as the big harvest field in the cities. Students of all ages have been reached by our programs, and the teachers too. In a city very close to Campinas (where we are based), when we arrived at a school to schedule meetings, the Directors said to us that the Directors of another school where we went one day before had talked with them about us. They didn’t call us because they didn’t have our phone number. So we could see that God was preparing everything! We arrived when they were looking for us!

We gave training in evangelism in a church in Campinas-SP, which was great. After it, as we always do, we went to downtown for the students to practice what they learned. It was very good! The students did a really great job. On this day in the plaza, where we could reach hundreds with many of them deciding for Christ, when I (Bruno – OAC staff) was preaching a man came from the crowd walking in my direction looking to my eyes, which made me a little worried because I didn’t know what he was going to do to me. So he began to speak, and crying he said that he was coming back to the Lord at that moment. He said that he was being destroyed by alcohol. So I told the crowd about the decision that he was making in that moment, and he knelt in front of me to pray to receive Jesus. After that, he got up and I put him next to me, and all the crowd were so impacted with what they just saw, that when I made the invitation, most of the crowd prayed with us to receive Jesus. I have no words to describe how my heart was seeing this. Praise Him!

We have been following the OAC motto, “Presenting Christ by all means everywhere,” until the ends of Brazil! In the very isolated villages, and in many Indian tribes, we have gone, reaching lost souls and helping local pastors and missionaries who work completely alone. Thanks, because you have been willing to be used by God as a vital part of the Great Commission of Christ.

We have just returned from a mission trip to the Northeast of Brazil where very isolated people live (more isolated than some Indian tribes). They don't have electricity or regular food (we ate armadillo, anteater, goat, drank rain water...). The big problem there is the dryness. Some people had to walk miles to get water to drink and to bathe, etc… We needed to take a shower in a basin, and use this water for other things. We were 100 miles to the closest hospital, 10 miles from a public telephone, and 60 miles from a supermarket. The earth roads were terrible.... big holes everywhere, rocks and sand. It was hard on our truck. The area was “Sertão Nordestino”.

We want to share about an amazing mission trip to the southern region of Amazon reaching many Indians. It was two days driving from São Paulo. The pioneer missionary in these tribes came from Holland. Near the time for him to come to Brazil when he was 22 years old, he had a problem in his gums, and the dentist said to him that he needed to have treatment for 2 years. So he said that needed to come to Brazil as a missionary, and asked him for another way of treatment. He told him he could take out all his teeth. And he said yes! This determined missionary then came to the Amazon. In his first contact, the Indians were going to kill him, so he took out his false teeth and opened and shut them towards the Indians. They tried to do the same, and then came and bowed down before him. Now the Indians are peaceful, and he has done an amazing job there. He’s now around 80 years old.