Harvest Brazil April Ministry Update

Thank you – Thank you for the gift of your time in many ways, prayer, financial support, visits, and participation in our ministry.  May the Lord multiply the fruit of your obedience and add joy to your work and family life.

Brazil – In these difficult times for the politics in Brazil, we continue to pray for divine intervention with justice, truth, mercy and hope for our country.

PROGRESS OF SAMARITAN STRATEGY PROJECTS
Harvest Brazil equips churches to demonstrate God’s will in all areas of lifeOur times are in God’s HandsEncouraged by the work of Harvest Brazil and the Family Church in Balneário Camboriú, pastors, church members, and businesspeople served the Guaranys in Araquari, State of Santa Catarina, in two special celebrations, Easter and Mother’s Day.  The strategy to use seed projects for these acts of service has been fruitful.  It helps churches grow in collaboration, faith, and prayer.  It helps businesses grow using creative ways to invest finances and technology.  It helps beneficiaries grow while watching God’s purposes for families, the environment, and relationships demonstrated around them.Innovative and dynamic, the two seed projects with the Guaranys in Araquari included:

• People who heard each other through conversations, songs, and prayers.  They shared struggles, victories, and enjoyed peace and mutual understanding.
• Donations of clothes, shoes, food and an industrial oven for the community kitchen in the village. The kitchen was built with recycled material from the classrooms (old and new) and restrooms.
• Progress of negotiations with BMW to improve the dirt road that connects the village to the paved road, and the construction of houses for the Guaranys.

PRAYERS

• While you read this message, we are equipping local churches with leadership training in five Brazilian states, Bahia, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.  We invite you to accompany us with prayers and financial support for the continuity of these projects.
• As a team, Harvest Brazil has grown in training opportunities and network with new partners –like the Haggai Institute–, but the team has also suffered with the political crisis in the country, difficulties with families, and sickness.  We invite you to join us in spiritual warfare.
• Along with the churches, we persevere in the work with the Guaranys, Haitian immigrants, inmates, and drug users in rehabilitation.  We invite you to join us in prayer for them.