The Xingu Mission is about planting churches and training leaders as a way to expand the Kingdom of God. Many great scholars have affirmed this as a best practice. Bert Wagner asserts, “Church planting is the most effective form of Evangelism known under heaven.” Tim Keller also claims, “A vigorous and continuous approach to church planting is the only way to guarantee an increase in the number of believers and is one of the best ways to renew the whole body of Christ.”
We are so blessed to be able to celebrate the church opening in Belem. The Belem team has been working for over a year through their home church to build up a body of believers to start a church outside their home. A month ago, that became a reality. In their first church service, they were blessed to have many brothers and sisters from other Vineyard churches come and celebrate with them. They came as far as Altamira, Santarem, and Portel to support the new church plant opening. In addition, the National leader of the Vineyard church association shared God’s Word. The church continues to meet and they are seeing salvations and the Kingdom of God in their midst.
It was an extraordinary moment bringing excitement throughout the movement. We pray that more moments like this continue to occur more and more in our church planting efforts.
Please continue to pray for this new Belem church plant, the other church plants in progress, and more workers to take up the cause to plant churches.
