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December 2017 Newsletter

​ Dear Friends and Family, Thank you for your prayers and support. They have been greatly appreciated. Denise and I have been back in Brazil for almost 2 months now and it has been a whirlwind of activity. We wanted to take a minute to catch everyone up on what’s been going on here! We December 2017 Newsletter

Celebration Supper

Fabio and Geice are group people. When I picked them up to come over for pizza and baked potatoes we drove around and picked up other family and friends, and even a neighbour kid who was standing in his driveway and watching them get into our car. Like my mom says, “You can’t have a party Celebration Supper

Springtime in Johannesburg

South Africa appears more violent than Brazil. I don’t know about this statistically but I observed a whole different level of property protection. The Bible School where we had the AVLN conference was surrounded by two fences, about half a meter apart. The outside fence is chain-link with razor-wire at the top. The inside fence Springtime in Johannesburg

Bergen Family

Dad had chest pains last Sunday morning. The ambulance showed up in 5 minutes, and he spent much of the week in the hospital. Thankfully he is home again and doing well. Emma, Via, Anni, and Bella in church Sunday morning. My cousin sent me this candid photo. Powered by WPeMatico

Church Planting Lessons

Ghibeau is the editor of a peer-learning community of people who are launching Disciple Making Movements. They define a Disciple Making Movement as a group who are planting 100 new churches every 2-3 years, with groups starting groups down to at least 4 generations. http://www.accelerateteams.org/index.php/our-guidebook We met for lunch with Ghibeau while we were in Church Planting Lessons

Overcoming Fear

Hi everybody, this is Ronã. I’m very excited to meet all of you next year. Yeah! That’s right, we are going to America in February! That’s awesome! Until then, I want to talk about one challenge I’m overcoming during this time—The fear of evangelism. Don’t misunderstand. It’s not that I am ashamed of Christ. It’s Overcoming Fear

AVLN Conference

The Mozambique and Angola churches have been asking Brazil for worship and learning resources. These countries all speak Portuguese. Milton and Elba were invited to be guest speakers at the African Vineyard Leadership Conference (AVLN) in Johannesburg with the hope that friendships and working relationships would form. Elba and Milton invited a few others, and AVLN Conference