Walking by Faith

"With your blood you purchased men for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation."
Revelations 5:9



"To sit and worship with americans singing english and brazilians singing in portuguese is a small glimpse of heaven"


All of the students attending this cross cultural project to Brazil for the summer are from South Alabama! They will be spending their summer in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. They are leaving in 2 weeks!!!!!!! Pray for favor with them as they meet Brazilians and seek to share the love of Jesus!

Facts about Brazil:
~South America's leading economic power and a regional leader.
~However highly unequal income distribution and crime remain pressing problems.
~Belo Horizonte in the country's third largest metropolitain area
~The Majority of all Brazilians would call themselves Catholic.


My last roommate Amanda went on this trip 2 years ago with Campus Outreach. I told her that I was updating you guys and asked for her thoughts on the culture and beliefs in Brazil from her experience. These are some of the things she said.

"A lot of them are initially offended by the idea of God and Jesus because the church there is rather corrupt"

"building relationships is very key for the missionaries there and the student teams"

"showing love and not just speaking it is so important in communicating the gospel"

"a lot of them kind of take different stuff from different religions and believe and there is a lot of Brazilians who follow spiritism"

"they are a group centered culture vs. a self centered culture of america so biblical community is very attractive to them"

"community is highly important to them and when they see how a community of believers interacts it's just that much more attractive"

"i think for the american students...experiencing a culture like brazil is such a great growing experience especially in learning to value others and serve them."

"One of the main things I walked away with was learning to see the needs of others and just seeing how big God really is."



"To sit and worship with americans singing english and brazilians singing in portuguese is a small glimpse of heaven"