e3 Brazil Mission Trips

Donations

2010-12-30T15:42:00.000-08:00

If you would like to partner with us and help us raise funds for our mission trip in 2011. Please click here. Our trip code is BR11E. You can designate funds for Sharon, Aidan and Brendan John and your donation will be split evenly among them. Thank you again for your support!

New Trip for 2011

2010-11-11T08:57:00.000-08:00

Another year another trip to Brazil! Our work continues as part of our vision of "Crossing Brazil with The Power of e3". Carol Wilson and I will be leading a week long mission trip to plant new churches in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil from August 5 through August 14, 2011.Here is all of the pertinent information:Where: Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil (about 60 miles north of Sao Paulo)What: We will

Backing Up - Day 4 Saying Goodbye

2010-08-15T18:42:00.001-07:00

Our last day on the field is always a busy one and a sad one. It is also a late night and then we need to get up and pack our room and be out of the hotel by 10am so we weren't able to post a story about our last day. So I'm posting this as our Day 4 update. Here's a cool story from that day.As a trip leader I don't get to spend as much time actually going out and sharing the gospel as the rest

Day 6: Going Home: “Is Brazil beautiful?”

2010-08-14T05:32:00.000-07:00

Our team is resting at a beautiful old ranch hotel up in the mountains, somewhere in Brazil. The day ahead presents itself with time to rest, relax, horseback ride, canoe, or walk through the hills. It was confusing to wake up to the sound of horses on the hillside outside my window. It takes a few minutes for my mind to figure out what I am doing here, and what really happened this week. It has

Day 3 on the field - God is in control

2010-08-12T03:11:00.000-07:00

Vince, Brendan, Ian and I had a unique opportunity today to witness to a group of construction workers at a job site. The owner of the construction company is a member of our host church and arrange for us to arrive in the morning to talk to the men working on this new building. I don't believe they get mandatory breaks in this country and so stopping the work on your site for at least 30

Day 2 On The Field - Trusting God

2010-08-10T18:58:00.000-07:00

This is Vince as guest blogger for today's entry. I will try to convey today's activities and events in reverse chronological order. Hopefully you will understand as they play out. As we are watching the USA soccer team beat the Brazil team, I am thinking about the worship service we have just come back from at the church that is being planted here. This is the second service that has been held

Day 1 on the Field

2010-08-09T18:20:00.000-07:00

Today was our first day of evangelism on the streets where our host church hosts to plant a new church. The neighborhood is right behind where the denomination has a large publishing house where they produce a lot of Sunday school and small group material. This is where our home base for the week. We are working in a middle class neighborhood. We met a lot of people today who either were part

More Pictures From Sunday

2010-08-08T17:44:00.000-07:00

God put together a great team!Our kids made some fast friends at our host church.Our Father's Day celebration lunch.Vince training with his team.Training on the Evangecube at our host church

Brazilian Father's Day

2010-08-08T11:58:00.000-07:00

Today is Sunday. For us it is a regular day of worship but, for the Brazilians it is their Father's Day. How fitting it is for us to celebrate Father's Day with our brothers and sisters. Not just to celebrate our earthly fathers but, to celebrate the exult our heavenly Father for whom we serve this week!As many of you know from the past today is our day to train with the Brazilians and

Getting Ready to Take Off...

2010-08-05T14:17:00.001-07:00

For all of you that have been praying for us and thinking about this trip. We are leaving tomorrow at 6:00pm from Philadelphia (at least most of us are). I will be posting trip updates and pictures here so stay tuned...

New Mission Trip - Sao Paulo, Brazil

2009-09-21T18:04:00.000-07:00

You are invited to go with e3 Partners Ministry as we spread God's glory in the country of Brazil through evangelism, discipleship and church planting. August 6-15, 2010 Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil with over 11 million people and is the capital city of the State of Sao Paulo. The city is named after Saint Paul the Apostle. While you are in Brazil:Each day you will partner with

2009-08-14T18:38:00.001-07:00

It is our last day here in Foz after an amazing celebration service last night with our new Brazilian church family. Last night we celebrated the End and the Beginning, as Chris posted yesterday. We spent the day going back to the neighborhoods and visiting people we met earlier in the week. We spent time going through a bible lesson with them and talking more about their faith and what it means

The End and The Beginning

2009-08-13T19:07:00.000-07:00

It is hard to believe this trip is winding down to an end. Today was our last day with our churches and the last day on the mission field. God blessed us, our national church friends and our translators. Overall we presented the gospel 489 times and saw 269 professions of faith. One new church was planted and one was strengthened. There will be more stories and closing remarks when we've had

Divine Appointments

2009-08-12T19:40:00.000-07:00

It is late and we are all extremely tired. This is normal for this time of the week. We talk and pray a lot about divine appointments. These are situations where the right people are at the right place at the right time and it happens so often on these trips. I wanted to quickly share a story about a guy named Rafael that I met this afternoon. The day was ending and we had about 20 minutes

Sharing the Gospel with 5 Small Beads

2009-08-11T18:50:00.000-07:00

Sharon here...Today was a great day for all of us! We woke up to the sun and enjoyed the climbing temperatures here while we began our day in the neighborhoods.Over the past year, members of our church family at Concord Liberty spent their spare time making "gospel bracelets" for our trip. A gospel bracelet is a simple beaded bracelet with 5 colored beads on them that tell the Gospel story in a

Day 1 of Evangelism - God Washes Us Clean

2009-08-10T19:23:00.000-07:00

It is very late on Monday night but, it was such an incredible first day at both church locations. So many great stories and so many people were able to hear the gospel message and many of them responded by accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior! Just a few highlights from today:- I got to witness to a woman who had been recently diagnosed with the Swine Flu. She greeted us with a mask on but, we

God Can Even Overcome the Swine Flu

2009-08-09T18:27:00.001-07:00

Today was our day to do evangelism and discipleship training with the Brazilian church members and our translators. We split our team into two teams; one to work with the Presbyterian church in a neighborhood called Morumbi and the other team will be working with a Baptist church in Jargim de Flores. The team from Concord Liberty is working at with our Presbyterian brothers and sisters and the

Over 24 Hours of Travel but, We Made It!

2009-08-08T18:13:00.000-07:00

It is late on our first night in Foz do Iguacu so this is going to be a short post. We just wanted to let everyone know we made it although it took a little longer than expected. Our flight from Miami to Sao Paulo was an hour late taking off and so we landed at 6:30am instead of 5:30am for a 7:20am flight. Facing a very long and slow immigration line followed by a very chaotic customs line

The Parable of the Sower

2009-08-05T18:32:00.000-07:00

This Friday, August 7th a group of 15 Americans will depart from the US en-route to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil. Our mission is to work alongside 2 young Brazilian churches to help them reach their neighborhoods for Jesus Christ; to make an impact by transforming lives through the power of placing your faith in God's only son. A big part of the work takes place after we Americans leave and that is

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2009-06-05T13:16:00.001-07:00

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Brazil Short Term Mission Trip Information

2009-04-08T07:58:00.000-07:00

You are invited to go with e3 Partners Ministry as we spread God's glory in the country of Brazil through evangelism, discipleship and church planting.Aug 7-16, 2009Foz do Iguacu is a city of about 250,000 people.. Foz is a key city for e3 Partners in Brazil as it borders two countries, Paraguay and Argentina so its influence spans beyond its borders. e3 Partners has been working successfully

New Mission Trip - Foz do Iguacu, Brazil - August 7 - 16

2008-12-03T09:14:00.000-08:00

Hi!,This post is dedicated to providing interested parties information related to a short-term mission trip that I am leading in August 2009 to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil through e3 Partners Ministry. The purpose of the trip is to partner with several existing churches in Foz do Iguacu to either plant new churches or strengthen newer churches. We do this through a week long campaign of evangelism

Reflections

2008-09-01T10:37:00.000-07:00

It's been a week since we returned from Brazil. In some ways it feels like a month has gone by and in other ways it feels like yesterday that we were walking the streets of Aguas Lindas and Esplanda sharing the gospel. These trips are both incredibly invigorating and draining at the same time. But as I've had time over the last week to reflect on the trip there are a few things that stick out

Back Home!

2008-08-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

It's nice to sleep in your own bed after 9 days away. After 3 flights and 17 hours we arrived at home last night at Philly airport around 1am. Unfortunately I think Liz's luggage is still in Miami. Goodbyes are hard and we became very close very quickly with our Brazilian hosts and translators, as well as, our other team members. It was such a great campaign and couldn't have gone any

Day 8 - Almost Home!

2008-08-23T19:19:00.000-07:00

Today a bunch of us went to a program called Kids Games at one of the mission sites that Dave Nickey had worked at all week. It was a great time to spend with the kids of this neighborhood and help the church reach out to the community. It's a great format and is run all over the world. Sharon and I are thinking of adopting it for our Alive program. The kids are split up into groups and move

Day 7 - Our Day Off!

2008-08-22T22:56:00.000-07:00

Today we toured Brasilia with Pastor Joaquim, his wife and our translator Rubins. We saw their national TV tower where you can go up about 25 stories and see across the city. Brasilia is a very modern city and is only 50 years old. It was completely planned out by then President of Brazil Juscelino Kubitchek or JK as he is known in 1956. All of the architecture is very modern and was

Day 6 - The Home Stretch

2008-08-21T22:43:00.000-07:00

Today is the last day of the campaign! Thanks for all of your prayers to get to this point. We have had an amazing experience and can't wait to share it with everyone. Today was about finishing strong and continuing to follow up with new Christians with discipleship and a new bible. Each team has had amazing stories of divine appointments and lives being changed. This day also included gift

Day 5 - Discipleship Starts

2008-08-20T22:22:00.000-07:00

Wednesday and Thursday of e3 campaigns stress return follow-up visits with those who have made a professions of faith. The idea is to start the discipleship process while we are still here and have the Brazilian nationals continue it after we have left. During the visit the nationals will sit down with the person and review a very basic bible lesson and give them a new bible if they do not have

Day 4 - Evangelism in the Schools

2008-08-19T18:56:00.000-07:00

Today many of the teams had the opportunity to witness in the schools around the various neighborhoods we are working in. Tara got the opportunity to witness and do the cube with the kids that are part of the Baptist school and did a great job! All the rookies on the team are now bold evangelists. Mom and Dad both got the opportunity to witness in the schools most of the day and Sharon went

Day 3 - We Hit the Streets!

2008-08-18T18:58:00.000-07:00

Today was the first day of the campaign. We broke up into 4 teams and headed off in different directions to begin our evangelism and discipleship campaign for the week. Each team came off the field with amazing stories of people coming to Christ. All in all there has been over 100 professions of faith. That's amazing for a little over a day's work. God is good! Our Brazilian hosts and

Day 2 - Training and Practice

2008-08-17T18:47:00.000-07:00

Sundays of a church planting campaign are all about practice and having the opportunity to meet the Brazilians and translators that we will be working with. This trip we are working with 4 different churches all of which are about 40 minutes away from the hotel where we are staying. Today we left our hotel at 8:30am on the bus and spent the entire day at one of the Baptist churches we will be

We Made it!

2008-08-16T17:58:00.000-07:00

Well, we are turning out the lights on our first day in Brasilia. We arrived this morning at 7:30am after 3 flights starting at 11:30am on Friday with all of our luggage (Yeah!). Today was about rest and thankfully we had all day to catch up on lost sleep. We ended our day with a traditional Brazilian BBQ called a Chaurrascaria. More carne then you can imagine including caiman and aardvark (

Preparing to Go!

2008-08-14T17:43:00.000-07:00

1 More Day! We are finishing up final preparations and packing to head out to the airport tomorrow morning for an 11:35am flight to Miami and then on to Brazil! We touch down in Brasilia (the capital of Brazil) on Saturday morning at 7am. Please be praying for safe and uninterrupted travel! Keep coming back for more updates!