| Why should you go on a short-term overseas mission trip?
Short-term team members offer encouragement, love, respect, and support from back home to the missionaries, local ministries, and the local church body, producing a long-term impact.
Short-term teams gain a global perspective of God’s Kingdom and the spiritual growth of its participants when used by God.
A few short-term teams have recently visited the ministries here in Brazil, ranging from 2 to 4 people.
A team of 2, accompanied by the Wilsons, visited a region with a long-term relationship, helped make water filters, ministered, and gave first aid training.
A team of 3 from the Meyer´s sending church visited Macapá and the work there. They held conferences at two churches, participated in outreach events giving food away, hosted a fellowship time with a cookout, made numerous home visits praying for people, and got in a jungle/nature day.
A team of 4, accompanied by the Dolans, currently in the country at the time of this writing, traveled to the interior of Pará and are building restrooms at a church plant on the river.
They also held a service in that location and at the home church reaching out to this river area.
In all cases, the local ministries and the local churches felt blessed by the teams, and relationships were formed or solidified through the team’s visits. With today’s translating technology, several continue to write back and forth with their Brazilian friends. The missionaries love sharing their work with the teams. It’s been expressed that it is therapeutic for them.
Do you want to partner better with God’s work in Brazil? Come for a visit and get personally connected. We’ll have the coffee waiting!
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