Project AmaZon is all about taking the Gospel to those who have never heard it in the Amazon Basin, and we devote all that we are to it. In all our efforts, our aim is to minister to the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of the Brazilians.
Project AmaZon is a missions organization led by its North American Board of Directors and acting Director Jeff Hrubik, himself a missionary in Brazil. The Board gives direction over the mission "Project AmaZon" and its missionaries. Over the past 30 years, we have helped plant several hundreds of churches (see our History). These churches, each named "Igreja da Paz" followed by their community (e.x. "Igreja da Paz Liberdade"), are not overseen by the foreign North American Board but by the PGN ("National [Brazilian] Governing Board" in English). A large majority of the PGN is made up of Brazilians and includes several PAZ base leaders, missionaries and also PAZ Director Jeff Hrubik. So Project AmaZon and its churches have separate governing boards, but each working together to reach the Amazon for Christ.
Pastor Nilton is one of PAZ's first and most productive church planters
In the early days of the mission, Project AmaZon did the work of church planting and won, trained and equipped Brazilian pastors and missionaries to do the same. Over the years a purposeful leadership transition was put in place to give the responsibility of church-planting to the Brazilians. Today the mission supports and fuels the vision of reaching the Amazon for Christ that the Brazilians have taken over. Here's a quick look at how we're doing it.
We’re taking the Good News to the large cities and the backwaters of the Amazon that have never heard the Gospel. We’re using every possible method and ministry at our disposal to spread God’s Good News, whether it be our huge olympic-like 3-night evangelist outreach Congresso da PAZ, ministries such as Chadash which ministers to women trapped in a lifestyle of prostitution, or floating health care clinics staffed with our medical missionaries: it’s all to expand God’s Kingdom. We’re battling the enemy for precious souls, and the enemy is losing ground in the name of Jesus. We’re proclaiming freedom to the captives of alcoholism, prostitution, drugs, hate, jealousy, pornography, purpose-less life and religion. We’re seeing lives transformed through Christ’s amazing power. But that’s just the beginning…
Over 1,400 people gave their lives to the Lord at the 2007 Congresso da PAZ
MDA (or “Apostolic Discipleship Model” in English) is revolutionizing missions, changing the mission field into the mission-sending field. At the heart of the MDA structure is one-to-one discipleship. From the most senior pastor, to the newest convert, everyone has a disciple and everyone is being discipled. From the top-down, we are being challenged to go deeper in the Lord, to make our lives count. Our deep biblical preaching, teaching and training combined with practical and powerful personal discipleship is producing sold-out, biblically-grounded, Holy-Spirit filled Brazilians ready to give their all and take the Gospel to all the earth.
Our mission field, the Amazon Basin, is roughly 2/3 the size of the continental US and has an estimated 30,000 un-evangelized communities. Our goal: a church in every community. To this end we’re sending Brazilian missionaries and pastors as well as health, water-purification and church-construction teams to fuel the fire of spreading the Gospel and to minister to the mind, body and souls of the Amazon people.
In our most recent mailing we tell the story of the community of Piracãoera de Cima, where a church was recently built in the midst of the worst flooding in the Basin our generation has seen. It’s amazing to see how much God uses a physical building to build his eternal kingdom, as evidenced [...]
Today marks the first day of the 3-day national fast for PAZ and our churches. All church leadership and members are encouraged to join in and seek God intensely during this time, especially in the following areas:
Direction and wisdom for PAZ leadership in how to strengthen our current churches and where to plant new [...]
Soon, the 4th generation PAZ site PAZ 2014 will go online. It’s an all new interactive experience, filled with the most recent stories, pictures, and testimonies from the Amazon. You’ll even be able to take it with you in the form of the new PAZ Pack – a package for download including a new [...]
Last night we here at PAZ headquarters in Santarém ushered in the New Year at the church on our knees, seeking the Lord’s blessing on 2010. During the service we looked back at all the successes of 2009. While we are still waiting for numbers to come in from across our bases, through [...]
This Christmas, Project AmaZon director Jeff Hrubik sensed God leading us at PAZ to make a very different type of appeal – one I’ve personally never seen done, even heard of being done before! All I can say is that I believe God has something very special in store for you this Christmas and [...]
