Recently, a number of PAZ missionaries have joined the ranks of “Web Newsmakers” with PAZ and have set up their own blogs. These blogs (websites) have been added to our Missionary News, where you can see the latest on what’s happening from the perspective of various missionaries. The missionaries below join an already impressive list of missionaries serving with Project AmaZon that post their personal stories, pictures, news and experiences on their blogs. Just look at the new blogs recently created:

• The Trezise Family Weblog

Ken and Leslie Trezise, missionaries with PAZ since December 2005, coordinate the Health Ministries in Castanhal, a region not very far from the mouth of the Amazon river with around 3,000 communities that have no evangelical church. They have four children: Weston, Abigail, Lila and Megan who, along with the great task of their ministries, keep their parents very busy.

• Brazil - Edson and Kelly Lee

Edson and Kelly Lee were both single missionaries with PAZ who met and married on the mission field and now serve together in the area of health ministries in Santarém - PAZ’s Brazilian headquarters. They are a key couple in PAZ’s health ministries, opening doors for PAZ church planters to reach difficult communities.

• God’s Amazing Grace in Japan

Tim and Christine Huber are longtime, fruitful missionaries who lead PAZ’s ministry in Japan. Tim is a part of the Melvin Huber family, who moved to Brazil as missionaries over 50 years ago and began Project AmaZon in the late 70s (read more about PAZ’s history). They were eventually sent out from their Brazilian church as missionaries to Japan.

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Just this last month, PAZ began an exciting new communication: The PAZ Email Newsletter. The Newsletter is a monthly highlight of the exciting news, testimonies and opportunities with PAZ. It’s easy to sign up and just as easy to unsubscribe. Don’t miss out on this great mailing. Sign up now!

A brother named José, in the river community Cabeça D’onça, told us about a personal experience of his that was, as he said, without a doubt “divine intervention.”

Brother José worked a long way out from his village. The place was in the middle of the jungle and overgrown with thorny vegetation. Returning home was a process that involved a long trip via boat along the river. One day, when he was waiting for his boat in a little thatch hut, he heard the noise of a boat passing by. Thinking he was missing his boat, he got up and ran down to meet it. But it wasn’t what he thought it was.

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Our citywide evangelical event — Congresso da Paz 2008 — was held last weekend, July 4, 5 and 6 and the first reports indicate around 900 people made decisions for Christ, putting us almost halfway to our goal of 2,000 people saved through the Congresso!

It seems like every year the Congresso just gets better and better: the speakers, the dramas, the dances, the sets, the crowds! But one thing never changes: the amazing message of salvation through Jesus Christ that is the backbone of every Congresso. Thousands of volunteers dedicate themselves to this event, making it an unforgettable entrance into God’s family for the many who respond.

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