John and Silvia Eisenmann

Logistics and Health Ministries

John and Silvia Eisenmann

John & Silvia joyfully serve the Lord together, ministering through Project Amazon at the Santarem base. Having both begun their ministry with PAZ as single missionaries, they began their ministry together in August 2010 and are working through PAZ in various capacities. John has responsibility for creating and maintaining maps of the hundreds of PAZ river and interior church plants. He works with other missionaries to maintain a database of church statistics and apply it to interactive maps for the purposes of strategic planning. John also helps on various church construction projects as needed. Silvia is a nutritionist and works with the mission health team. She helps the thousands of people that pass through PAZ health clinics each year understand and improve their diet to enhance their quality of life. John and Silvia minister in the city through an active cell group ministry and growing in the MDA vision of leadership, making disciple-making-disciples.

“He saved us…through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” Titus 3:6-7

Curuá Outreach

9 May 2012, 7:36 pm | from The Eisenmann Initiative

Hopefully, you all know about the recent outreach that we did in the municipality of Curuá. (See that last post, BIG Plans) Thank you to all who covered the trip with prayer!This trip was huge undertaking for us as an organization, but thanks to some fabulous planning and execution by our missionary team, we were able to reap huge rewards! Almost our entire team traveled on this outreach, even some from neighboring bases, which has never happened in my three years here.Our team was...

BIG Plans

21 April 2012, 7:10 pm | from The Eisenmann Initiative

This month has been a bit out of the norm. Since my last trip out on the river for water filter supervision, we've been pretty much camped out here in the city. Mostly because we have a HUGE team of Americans in town right now getting ready to go out on a 6 day outreach trip. It's taken virtually all the mission resources to prep. Many of the PAZ missionaries have been working hard to put all this together, many aspects being much more difficult than normal, bec...

More Water

20 March 2012, 7:42 pm | from The Eisenmann Initiative

In the past week I've made a couple trips in support of the PAZ water filter program, each being fun and interesting in it's own way.Testing stream waterThe first trip was just for an afternoon, out to the local municipality of Belterra. Those of you who have been here to visit will recognize it as the place where Henry Ford had one of his rubber plantations. From there we headed down to the banks of the Tapajos River to the community of Porto Novo, where the first team I ever brough...

Campos do Uricurituba

28 February 2012, 12:28 am | from The Eisenmann Initiative

To close out last week, I made my first trip of the year with a team of Americans, visiting from Pontiac, Illinois. It was a quick river trip, only three days in duration, so leaving my wife at home, didn't seem quite so bad.The amazonian river landscape is rapidly changing as the powerful waters rise inches each day, flooding thousands of acres of land with each passing day. Dramatic? Not really, just normal. Every year, the water comes and goes. Houses a...