In December 2021, Pastor Edwin Robles, from Colombia, was able to take the International Leadership Institute (ILI) training online. ILI training is a powerful development tool with eight values: intimacy with God, passion for the harvest, visionary leadership, culturally relevant evangelism, multiplication of leaders, family priority, faithful stewardship, and integrity. Pastor Robles was just one of around 3000 leaders who were trained last year. Edwin was so excited about training others that he organized an excellent face-to-face training with 65 people in the north of Peru in January 2022: this is the power of multiplication! Would you be willing to give a scholarship for one of these local leaders to receive the ILI training? It is about $30 per person. You can give at Worldrenewal.org/give. For 19 years, Pastor Assuerio Naque planted churches with World Renewal Brazil around his hometown. He loved it, but felt a strong calling to Mozambique, Africa. They spoke Portuguese in Mozambique, and he had heard that there was a great lack of training for the pastors and leaders there. In 2017, he and his family became the first missionaries sent by World Renewal Brazil internationally. Last October, Assuerio lead a training conference for pastors and leaders in a central region of Mozambique. For three days we were studying the Bible with a group of 13 pastors. One night while they were talking around a campfire, one of those pastors decided to open his heart and confess that he had two wives, but he was being confronted by the Word of God to leave one of them and stay with only the legitimate wife. Hearing this testimony was very encouraging because it is common in that area to find pastors with several wives. Only God can change the heart. The ministry in Mozambique needs $5,000 to travel and give training materials to pastors and leaders throughout the country this year. You can give at Worldrenewal.org/give For 20 years, Pastor Boaventura has led a prosperity gospel church in Mozambique that often exploits the faith of its members. Recently, he started to question the doctrines of his church, seeking answers in God’s Word, and asking for God’s guidance. When he heard about the leadership training offered by Pastor Assuerio in a neighboring city, he immediately signed up. As Pastor Boaventura finished the Christian Life course, he said “I am going through a theological “detox” process.” Hearing this from a pastor who has only been walking with us for a few months is so encouraging! Assuerio Naque (who left a rich ministry in Brazil to serve in Africa) says, “Working toward the spiritual liberation and edification of leaders all over Mozambique and Africa is fulling the calling God has given me.” To run the Church-Based Training (TBI) in Mozambique and reach pastors like Boaventura, it costs about $600 a month (for materials, travel, food, accommodations, and scholarships). Would you partner with us? You can give at Worldrenewal.org/give. M was a short kid with an even shorter fuse. He regularly got kicked out of school for fighting. He started learning martial arts with David Taylor at his public school in Brazil and loved it so much that he stopped fighting at school to be able to continue training. His enthusiasm continued as he brought over 30 other kids to the different martial arts classes to be trained as well. David Taylor took him on as a leader in training, helping out at many different locations, and building a relationship as well. January 2022, M joined the IMPACT team, helping with martial arts classes in the communities as they shared Jesus. And it was during that time that Jesus broke through to him, and he surrendered his life. Since then, he’s been able to attend the International School on scholarship. He is years behind the other students, and has just now been diagnosed with different learning disabilities as well as sight issues that have gone unchecked his whole life. It is a struggle, but as M says, “It was like my life was so small, and now it has exploded: and I just have so much gratefulness.” Would you help support M and other kids with Glory Sports ministries? You can give at Worldrenewal.org/give. Since 1993, World Renewal Brazil has been church planting in Northeast Brazil. Almost 30 years later, after planting over 30 churches, they are ready to take the next big step. Everything changed for the ministry when they purchased the Alcance Headquarters in the year 2000. Every corner of the building and land is being maximized to hold an International school (over 200 students and 40+ employees), the Northeast Bible seminary (around 200 students and teachers), and two churches (with a total of over 200 members coming on Saturdays and Sundays). With over 20 families serving with World Renewal Brazil, creatively working together toward the goal of planting churches, they are ready to grow. There is a 7-acre campground in Paudalho (centrally located and near their headquarters) that they are ready to purchase. This will exponentially expand their ability to grow and serve the Lord for the next 20 years! Purchasing this property for $220,000 will provide:
In 1993, a group from Brookville Road Community Church (BRCC) went to Brazil. While there, they raised the money to purchase the first church plant location in Carpina. That was the beginning of an incredible partnership that has continued to grow. In the year 2000, when the ministry had grown and needed a headquarters (what would also become the Seminary, International School, and two churches), BRCC led the giving with a huge gift that encouraged the other churches to give—enabling WRB to pay it off quickly. Over the past months, Tele Moraes and the WRB team has been praying about a 7-acre campground property, Alcance Brazil (ABA) camp, that would be a day camp for up to 26,000 public school kids to hear about Jesus, a headquarters for Project Focus (Business as Missions) and IMPACT ministries (Glory Sports), a covered area, pool, dorm rooms, sports fields, kitchen, and bathrooms for events/retreats for all of our planted churches and ministries, missionary housing for our growing team, and a new church plant and Living Stones. Again, BRCC joined in the prayers, and their missions team decided to give a large amount for a down payment from the mission’s budget. They recognized that they also wanted give the church time to understand and partake in this opportunity for a sense of shared ownership. Over the course of a month, as a church body they prayed and talked about the need. WRB is overwhelmed and grateful to share that Brookville Road Community Church has given almost half of the cost of the property! Would you partner with us to pay off the rest of the property? In 2012, Cezar was expelled for a couple weeks from the Living Stones program in Brazil. He had been fighting, again, and the leaders were just not sure what to do with him. But he kept coming back. Over the next couple of years, he gave his life to Jesus and slowly became a leader in the sports program at Living Stones. Later, he began working with Project Focus as part of the Recycling program, and in 2022, he and Lane, the director of Living Stones in Guadalajara, were married. Cezar is now a part of the IMPACT ministry day camp team that served 600 public school kids over four days in October at the ABA (Alcance Brazil) camp. 37 kids gave their life to Jesus during that time. It’s incredible to see the full circle of being served to serving others, knowing the life-change that Jesus brings personally. Would you consider partnering with World Renewal Brazil as they work to pay off the ABA camp property? Next year, World Renewal Brazil hopes to run over 40 weeks of day camps, with around 600 kids coming a week, reaching the 26,000 public school children in the schools that are ready and willing to bus their students to the ABA camp. What an important and vital ministry! Graduation in Brazil is in December: another thing to celebrate! The Northeast Bible Seminary has seen unparalleled growth during the pandemic. Their online classes have provided hope when many other areas of training and serving were closed down. Since 1999, around 90% of those who have graduated from the seminary are still continuing to serve God in ministry: an incredible statistic! Pictured above are two of the 2021 graduates: Lane and Misse. Misse grew up at the Community Church of Guadalajara, and was used by God to lead her friend, Lane, to the Lord. When they were both 16, they saw how important the Living Stones program was in their community, so when the leader left, they took over. After graduating high school, the girls had no doubt about what they wanted to do: they wanted to be missionaries, and began their training at the Northeast Bible Seminary. They have faithfully worked for the last four years, leading Living Stones in their community while studying at the seminary. We are so excited to see what God has done, and has planned for these amazing young ladies. Valmir Alvis, married with children and a full-time job, lived about an hour and a half drive from Carpina, where the Northeast Bible Seminary (SBNE) is located. He felt called to study theology and become a pastor, so in 2012, before on-line classes were available, he drove to class three days a week after work. Everyone saw how dedicated and excited he was about learning. Then his mother got very sick. She was in the hospital in Recife (another hour or two of driving) for special care for three months, and he was the only one in his family able to take care of her. After awhile of this ragged schedule, Valmir was at the end of his rope. His seminary professors, as well as the other students saw his needs and provided help, pooling money together for his mother’s medical costs. Valmir says: “The Northeast Bible Seminary was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I was deeply impacted by it, because I see it as an instrument of God acting in my life. SBNE is a big family. My soul was shepherded by the seminary professors who helped me make some important decisions in my life and ministry. SBNE contributed a lot to my academic training and my spiritual life, and that is directly reflected in my personal life and character.” Pastor Valmir graduated with his bachelor’s degree in Theology from SBNE in 2015, and was ordained in 2016. He is pastoring a church in the state of Piauí, and finished his Biblical Counselors Training Course in 2019. Please consider giving a scholarship to enable someone like Valmir to attend SBNE. You can give at WorldRenewal.org/give. On Saturday morning, July 30, 2022, Gary Wright (World Renewal President and Founder) awoke with a tiny blemish on the finger of his right hand. Within 24 hours, he was in critical condition with Staph MRSA. It required emergency surgery on his hand and antibiotics along with daily dressing changes by visiting nurses for 3 months to recover. Medical professionals have said that Gary is lucky to be alive and still have his hand. Was the cause that little bug bite? We don’t really know. Gary shares: “I received the best of care from medical hospital healers, family, wife, and World Renewal staff. I am so grateful to the Lord Jesus. I realize so many around the world do not have access to all of the above. Thank you to those who prayed for me. My hand is looking more like a hand again. It happened so quickly, and reminded me that we must all be ready in Him.” Dominic is 23 years old and has struggled with Heroin addiction for many years until embracing recovery nine months ago. Prior to moving into the Tikvah recovery house, he had attended church one time and had no relationship with God. His last overdose resulted in Congestive Heart Failure and required extensive cardiac rehabilitation. Since moving in ninety days ago, he obtained career-oriented employment, graduated Intensive Out-Patient Treatment (IOP) after fifteen attempts, paid off thousands of dollars in driver license reinstatement fines, obtained his license and then was blessed with a donated automobile! Friends of Recovery is a Christ-centered ministry and Spiritual development is at the core. Dominic shared last week that “Something is going on inside me every time they do communion.” He said he wants to do it but wants to wait until he is absolutely sure because “it is a huge commitment.” Dominic summed up his past ninety days with us this way: “Today I am a father, son, brother, friend and most importantly, a productive member of society and no longer a burden.” |