2011 Trip

The dates are set for the 2011 Mission to Brasil.  We will leave Little Rock on Friday, July 15 to arrive in Guarulhos on Saturday, July 16.  We will work all week with Pastor Gerson at the new church and with Pastor Daniel at Soberana FBC.  We will depart Guarulhos on Satuday, July 23 to arrive back in Little Rock on Sunday, July 24.  Due to the rising cost of fuel, airline ticket prices have also risen.  We anticipate the cost of the trip to be approximately $1800 per person.  Currently there are a few spots available on the team.

Please contact us ASAP if feel God calling you to join the team.

Here is just a little information about the area of Sao Paulo we have been serving for the past 8 years.

Camp do Feijao is where the new church began last year and where we will work in 2011.

 

Sao Paulo is the second-most densely populated city in the world behind New Dehli, of which Guarulhos is a suburb and Camp do Feijao a district.  Guarulhos also recently just passed the 1 million population mark.  Many people come from the north of Brazil hoping to find jobs, not much different than the US population shift to the big cities after WWII.  However, the jobs just aren't there for many and they can choose between abject poverty in the north or abject poverty in Sao Paulo.  They choose Sao Paulo because it is target-rich for crime. 

 

It also makes the fields ripe for a heavenly harvest.  Many look at these people from the north as problematic when the Church should see them as opportunity.