Today was an amazing action packed day of outreach! After worship and team impartation in the morning we went to the City of God where we held a festival with the children and others from the community. We had dances, drama, music and food. Many children raised their hands to receive Jesus after a powerful … Continue reading
This morning during corporate soaking the Lord was speaking to Rachel from John 15 concerning remaining in Him and confirmed that He would be very present the entire day. As Mike and Andrew were teaching on worship in the City of God, Rachel experienced the strong presence of God as gold dust fell on … Continue reading
On Wednesday, Bethany and Jill shared with the children about their Identity in Jesus and that He sees them as princes and princesses. During a time of soaking at City of God, one of the children, Daniel, saw a picture of some people acting violently. Then, he saw the peace of the Lord come and … Continue reading
During the week, some of the team had the opportunity to go house to house in the City of God favela to minister and pray with the people. Jill and Tom, along with two members of an Iris team, and Paulo from Casa de Jesus, walked through the windy and narrow alleys of the favela. We were … Continue reading
In the morning, we held our first structured children’s outreach at Heliopolis facilitated by Tom and Justin teaching on the Armor of God with about 40-50 children. The children were calm and engaged throughout the entire program. Our program included worship in Portuguese with the children, a teaching on soaking including puppets, and a drama … Continue reading
Today we had the opportunity to minister to about 30 children in the City of God favela as well as going through the neighborhood and meeting people. Pastor Dirceu operates a mission house/soup kitchen there and daily serves meals to the families in the favela. We used this building to host an outreach meeting for the children. Before the meeting, … Continue reading
Worship at Pastor Dirceu’s church was incredible this morning! There was such an overflow of the Lord’s presence from the night before. Tom shared further from John 12 about being the seed that dies in the earth in order to lift up Jesus, which will draw all people to Himself. Satan is now defeated. Troy … Continue reading
In the evening our team visited Pastor Dirceu’s church, Casa de Jesus. Mike, Tom, Bethany, and Rachel shared what God had imparted to them during our powerful morning soaking time. Keiji, our friend and translator who has joined our team for the duration of the trip, shared a word from Isaiah 35 (the same word … Continue reading
During our first afternoon in Heliopolis, we walked around the favela and invited children to come to our impromptu program that we were having that afternoon. When we stopped at one house, we met Jessica, a pregnant mother. Their incredibly small house was home for 11 people and she was worried about how to take care … Continue reading
The anointing kept increasing as the worship team and the congregation pursued the Lord. As she was laying face-down on the floor, Pastor Mary Pat had a vision. In the vision, she was looking down on a map of Brazil and fissures and cracks showed up on the map. The whole land began to shake. … Continue reading