PAZ started with a single missionary family, and as it grew it added Brazilian converts, developed national missionaries and attracted foreign missionaries as well. Our missionaries come from diverse backgrounds and bring expertise in health, aviation, communications, teaching, worship, pastoring, church-planting, children’s and youth ministries, and the list goes on. This is the body of Christ in action.
Here we are in Curitiba! We’re here to take a month long course for Pastors and Missionaries in Brazil that starts Monday, but we came a week early to take advantage of our time down south and visit the Waterfalls of Iguaçu—and it was worth everything we went through to see them! Just getti.. .. read more..
Green Region Pride Last weekend was our central church's cell group celebration. Because there are sooo many cells (over 2,000) just from our central church (our largest of our 22 churches in this city), they split each region up into colors. So we're not trying to be the Hulk, it's just cell pride.. .. read more..
He makes me lay down in green pastures... and the green just seems to stick! :) The waters weren't very still (Psalm 23:2) the three nights of the central church's annual cell group celebration! The church came together to sport their colors and worship the Lord. Each region consists of anywhere be.. .. read more..
me & grandpa (almost 88) So I just got back from a 2 week trip visiting and helping take care of my grandfather at another one of our PAZ bases in Parintíns. He is recovering from some radiation treatments and is very, very weak. Just a little bit about him, he and my grandmother were the first of.. .. read more..
So with over 40 people at the multiplication celebration last night of just ONE cell group, things were just a little ... uh, chaotic!! But it was a fun and happy chaos. It was wonderful to see so many people that are excited about how fast the cell group has grown and that are catching the vision .. .. read more..
Meet Don’s disciple Juvêncio, pictured here. He was born in the tiny village of São Joaquim in the northeastern state of Maranhão, never went to school, never even got a birth certificate. He left home thirty years ago at the age of 17, in search of work. He worked as a farmhand in Mato Grosso.. .. read more..
Tuesday, April 22 was a big day around the Reutter household: I (yes, I, Nate) gave birth to a brand new baby website, www.ProjectAmaZon.org. I've been in labor since early December, so imagine my relief to finally birth it! It's full of videos, slideshows and updates on recent missions trips on the.. .. read more..
Ok, when in Brazil, play soccer... our team: our cell group!! We accepted the challenge, and had tons of fun! In other news, I went on an encounter with God weekend, and took two of my disciples with me. We were all radically challenged. It was completely awesome to see God at work in their lives. .. .. read more..
One of the primary purposes of a cell is to multiply - to grow by inviting non-Christian friends, family, neighbors and other acquaintances to the cell meetings. As these unbelievers participate in the cell group, they make new friends, hear the gospel, see answers to prayers, and learn how they can.. .. read more..
Crazy for Missions As most of you know, our groups have been helping evangelical missions in four different communities. Josiah and I have been helping out in the river community of Tapari. Our first trip was quite the adventure! We traveled by car, and because the road is not the best, we got stuc.. .. read more..
