The Berrys in Barcelos

Saturday, May 26, 2012

ACTIVITIES AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN BARCELOS / APRIL AND MAY

LYNN AND THE BIBLE CLUB KIDS

This Easter the Lord opened the door for me to preach two different times at the public school.

COUPLES BANQUET

JUST PASSING THROUGH

Joel just recently spent a month here in Barcelos with some friends. He actively attended the services and through a Bible Study he made the decision to trust Christ as Saviour.

ROCK BOTTOM

Alcino hit rock bottom last month. He is a former school teacher who had a serious problem with alcoholism. He did a Bible Study and accepted Christ as Saviour.

BACK IN CHURCH

Diego and his wife, Fabula, are back in church after being out for over a year.

Our Present Ministry

We are missionaries with Macedonia World Baptist Missions serving in the jungle town of Barcelos in the heart of the Amazon. We are presently working with the First Baptist Church in Barcelos with the goals of evangelizing, discipling and preparing the church to be self-supporting and indigenous. Our plan is to organize the church officially with the government and turn the work over to a national within the next several years. We need God's help in getting this important task done. Pray for us! Bruce and Lynn

My Call to Missions

In 1975, at the age of 20, I began working with the youth of the Calvary Baptist Church in Hampton, Georgia, under the
leadership of Dr. Marlon Thomas. In 1982 the Lord led me to work as a coach and teacher at the Calvary Baptist School, and it was there that I first gained a burden for missions in Brazil. That first year at Calvary, during one of our school chapels, a missionary came and shared that there were many people along the Amazon who had yet to hear the gospel. God gave me a real burden and I began to pray that he would call a young person from our church to take the gospel to people in Brazil. In the summer of 1984 the Lord impressed on my heart that if I was going to pray for someone to go, then I would have to be willing to go myself. I then began to pray in the following way: “Lord, call someone from our church, and if it be thy will, send me.” Three months later the Lord called me to preach and take the gospel to those who had never heard along the Amazon.

Our Previous Missionary Work 1990-2001

In 1990 our family traveled to the city of Manaus, which is located in the heart of the Amazon Jungle. After studying the Portuguese Language we began to search for the place where the Lord would have us to start a Baptist Church. The Lord led us to a community on the outskirts of town called Augusto Montenegro, which had 500 houses and not one church of any denomination. On the first day of visitation I met a lady named Mrs. Ilzimar who said that she had been praying for two years that the Lord would send someone to start a Baptist Church in her community. With complete confidence in the Lord, that He had led us to the right place, we began the Augusto Montenegro Baptist Church. After many years of labor the church was ready to be indigenous and self-supporting. In May of 2001 the church called Pastor Francisco Martins to be its first Brazilian Pastor.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

ACTIVITIES AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN BARCELOS / APRIL AND MAY

Bruce and Lynn

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