There is a music by Vineyard, “If You Say Go” that goes, if you say go, we will go;  if you say wait, we will wait; if you say step out on the water, and they say it can’t be done, we’ll fix our eyes on you and we will come.  We count it a privilege and joy to have been called by God to “go”.  We want everyone to know the love, joy, peace and hope that comes with a relationship with God, so we have fixed our eyes on Jesus and continue to share about his kingdom.

We are thankful that you follow what we are doing to further the Kingdom of God here in Brazil.  To end the year, we want to remind you where the missionaries are and what they are doing and share the missionaries’ specific needs.  Please consider how you can generously partner with one of the missionaries to help us answer the call.

Keith and Marsha Wilson – Keith and Marsha are church planting in the capital city of Palmas, Tocantins.  Keith oversees the Pacajá/Palmas base and is the President of Xingu Mission USA.  Marsha is the chairman of the Senior Leadership Team.  Due to the next phase in church planting, the Palmas fund needs to increase monthly operation support by $800 monthly.

Christopher and Denise Meyer – Christopher and Denise are the senior pastors of a church in Macapá, Amapá.  They oversee a sister church and are involved in training other leaders.  They need $5000 for renovations on the church building.

Bob Lesher – Bob integrally helps with a church in Macapá, Amapá.  He focuses on outreach ministry.  Please consider helping financially with this outreach by giving to Macapá.

Derek and Amanda Blaylock – Derek and Amanda will start church-planting in the capital city of João Pessoa, Paraíba.  This is a new area!  The Blaylocks need to increase committed monthly operation support by $1000.

Right now the exchange rate is very good.  Your support dollars will go far, so get your end of the year tax donations in!

We are blessed to be a blessing.  Consider these needs as 2024 closes and you make budgeting plans for the coming year.  God bless!

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By God’s grace and some generous support, we were able to complete the reform and put the boat back into the water.  Thanks to all who answered the nudge to support the needed reforms!

When the boat was finished, it moved to the capital city of Belém.  There the water filter project will join the church planting efforts in this city.  There are tens of thousands of river residents in the surrounding area of Belém in need of clean water.  Providing this clean water through donated water filters opens the door for these individuals to receive the love of Jesus in a tangible way.  

We are excited about this move and pray that God blesses the efforts of the water filters outreach and the church plant in Belém.

Visit our website for more information to support the water filter project.  Find the link at the top of this report.

Once again, thank you to all those who have supported this project in the past and those that will continue to support this project in the future.

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Please join us in praying for Mike’s wife, Pam, his adult children, and all their family and friends. May the Lord of heaven and earth comfort and guide them in this difficult moment.
 

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Let me start by sharing with you what some of our missionaries did before joining the mission, their ages, family status, and what they thought were potential obstacles or disqualifying matters.

Age 58, widowed, excavating construction, personal difficulties; 
ages 39, married, 4 young children, teacher and manager for international company, feelings of being too introverted and intimidated about raising funds;
age 64, single, banking and insurance, too old, God wouldn’t call me; 
age 35, IT manager, DUI on record, not a theologian;
ages 34, married, 2 young children, accounting , auditor, a resume for being a missionary would be blank.

This is just a small variety of former and current long-term field missionaries.  We have had young singles, older singles, young marrieds who’ve had their children while on the field, marrieds that came with their children of varying ages, older marrieds whose children were already grown.  We’ve had people from various backgrounds and varying ministry experience.  Some felt called to missions and waited years to go.  Others felt called and went with little prep time. 

So what then are traits that make a long-term missionary? 

The first and foremost is certainty in God’s call for you.  Other traits are intimacy with God, servant mentality, persistence, humility, flexibility, teachable, faithfulness, collaborative, courage and an entrepreneurial spirit. 
God uses ordinary people who love Him and are completely surrendered to His will.

Do not disqualify yourself.  If you sense a calling to overseas mission, let’s talk to see if church planting in Brazil is where God is directing you.

Please feel free to contact me (Marsha):
by email:  marsha.wilson@xingu.org
by phone:  614-259-5464

You are blessed to be a blessing!
 

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This home assignment is crucial for the Blaylocks.  Why?  When starting mission field work, the first 2 years is spent on language and culture acquisition.  Although this requires financial support for daily living and move costs, ministry expenses are rather low. They will be returning from home assignment, transitioning to the work of church planting.  

The Blaylocks upon returning to the field will go directly to a new location, João Pessoa, and begin relationship building and expressing the good news about Jesus, spreading God’s love and building His church.

This requires increased support.  So, while on furlough, they need to increase their team with both committed prayer partners that will support them, morally, emotionally and spiritually, as well as committed financial partners who share their vision in reaching Brazilians in João Pessoa, Brazil.  They need to increase their financial support by $1500 a month as their ministry expenses will increase.  That is only 30 people at $50 a month.  

If you would like to learn more about the Blaylock’s plans, please enter into contact with Derek at:

email – Derek.Blaylock@xingu.org
phone – (346) 698-6957

Invite them to your church, small group, or to your house for a meal.  Please consider becoming part of their team.

God bless you as you enjoy your summer.
 

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In many minds, planting a church brings the idea of putting up or renting a building, slapping a name on it, and opening the doors as we wait for people to come. The Xingu Mission plants by relying on the guidance of the Holy Spirit to go out into the communities and make connections with people, living an evangelistic lifestyle so people see Jesus in us as we nurture the sprouting relationships and express the good news about Jesus.  Although we get to participate through sowing and nurturing, it is the work of the Holy Spirit that grows a church plant.

This is what Keith and Marsha Wilson have done for 20 years on the field and are doing in Palmas, Tocantins, for over 2 years now. Their attempts to interact and make connections within their community have included hospital visits, cycling, running, walking, voluntary English conversation, cookouts, and Uber driving.  The process is slow, especially with a team of two, and at times discouraging.  However, they’ve been able to see small acts of God moving.  The small church meets in their home on Sunday evenings and has a few faithful attendees.  A little over a month ago, Abilene, a Brazilian from Belo Horizonte, joined them in their planting efforts.  God has been aligning things in his time so that the church plant will grow strong and healthy. 

How can you help plant churches in Brazil from North America?

1. Maintain contact and support – keep up with the missionary’s challenges and provide moral, prayer, and financial support.  Use this information to find ways to care for the missionary in tangible ways as well. 
2. Visit them on the field – it encourages the missionary when you have an interest in understanding where they are working, and a desire to help them in their efforts. 
3. Network with potential prayer and financial supporters – this task is hard for them to do while on the field and with such little time during home assignments.  Your demonstration of partnership adds credibility to the missionary’s efforts.

Pray about how the Lord would like to use you as part of their team.

Pray for the Wilsons and the emerging church in Palmas.

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Enjoy the photos and pray for more workers as we continue to share God’s heart for Brazil and see His Kingdom expand.

May God bless you!

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Persevering the distance is being used to consider the work of our missionaries on the field, the fulfilling of our call in what lies ahead as much as the burden endured in obeying God’s call that distances us from loved ones.

In the past month, two of our missionaries, Steve and Christopher, suffered the loss of their dear mothers. Christopher’s mother was a mentor to the mission family, so we all felt the loss of Penny.  Steve described feelings of numbness and disconnection because of the distance for over more than twenty years.  We feel as if the distance grows with the number of years on the field.  It most certainly affects family relationships.  The burden comes through loss, missed important events, and the “not being there” in the diminished personal time with the ones we love. Our sympathies go out to Steve, Elba, Christopher, Denise, and their children as they navigate this sad time and new realities.

Back to the topic of persevering the distance. 

We want to draw attention to the apostle Paul.  Paul knew the life of a missionary.  He went, sometimes far from home and sometimes alone.  He knew of the great need for prayer to persevere, to run the race and finish the distance (2 Tim 4:7), both as a man given to prayer and the need to have the prayer of others.  Thus, Paul asks, covets, and pleads for help through prayer several times in his letters.

We ask for your prayers!  Please pray that each of our missionaries can be refreshed for the ministries God has laid before us, in the obedience of our callings.  We plead for prayer that the sting of physical distance does not inhibit our race and that the longings of missing loved ones do not crush our spirit.  We covet your prayers so that through union of the Spirit and aggregation of faith our spiritual fortitude, empowerment, and perseverance will increase as we share God’s truth and see His Kingdom advance in Brazil.
 

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Christopher and Denise focus on training faithful, accessible, and teachable leaders in creating a team that serves the Kingdom of God.  Leo and Leda fit that focus and have grown into gifted leaders.

The training ended with the recent consecration of Leo and Leda as senior pastors of Vineyard Macapá.  It was a joyous celebration and the church was encouraged. 

Planting churches and training leaders leads to raising up the leaders and handing over the churches to them.  It is advancing the Kingdom of God.  We are proud of Christopher and Denise for their diligence and a job well done.

Please be in prayer for the leaders that are in Brazil that are being trained to serve the Kingdom.

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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.
 

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