Congresso da Paz 2010 was a huge success. The Paz worship team ministered powerfully and launched their new CD. Missionary/Pastor Abe Huber delivered the Word of Life with anointing and conviction. The testimony of ex-soccer player João Leite had a huge impact. The three-night drama involving huge sets, dances, a sweeping story-line awed and inspired. But more than ever this year, God took center stage as there were a number of awesome healings including a deaf woman hearing and speaking again, a wheel-chair bound paralytic walking. Tumors completely disappeared and bad backs were completely restored (just to name a few of the healings that took place). But that doesn’t even mention the greatest miracle of all — salvation — of which 1,374 people gave their lives to the Lord! Hallelujah!

Each one of these new Christians will be visited personally by a cell-group in their area (if they don’t already have one). They will be invited to the cell group and well cared-for, receiving one-on-one discipleship and growing in the vision of the church — to win their family and friends for Christ and disciple them. Please pray for the church now, that we would not lose a single new convert during this critical time. Thank God for His awesome move of healing, salvation and grace that only seems to grow every day here in the Amazon! Now follow along each night through these pictures and be inspired and blessed by all that God is doing.

Congresso 2010: Sunday Night

Friday, July 4 | Santarém Brazil | Photos: Micah Gregory

One of the things we always pray for during Congresso time is that there would be good weather. That way people are encouraged to come. Also, our huge sets sit outside the whole week before the Congresso, so rain and storms can easily damage them. Sunday night, just a few minutes after the Congresso began, the skies opened up and started to pour down rain. In spite of the rain, praise and worship continued on with even more determination and focus! It was as if God’s grace poured down from above and everyone was soaked in the presence of God. After the rain stopped, it was much cooler and the whole support team had time to touch-up the set before it went out. And the stadium was still jam packed.

Click to see more photos from Saturday and Friday on the following pages.

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View our latest 4-page letter featuring the story of Cídia and the new base plant in the strategic city of Sinop. Want to help with the one-time start-up costs of this new base in Sinop? Donate to PAZ’s Sinop Base Start fund.

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Recently, PAZ has been busy investing in Sinop — a strategic city located several hundred kilometers south of Santarém along the muddy Cuiabá/Santarém Highway. We recently sent out a letter detailing the exciting and challenging venture of starting a new base there, our 12th in the Amazon Basin. These bases are the launching points for church-planting in the unreached areas around them (read more about how this works and see an interactive map of our bases). We’ve sent some of our best and most fruitful pastors to be missionaries in another critical area of Brazil that has yet to hear a clear presentation of the Gospel!

In this letter you will read the testimony of team member Cídia, who — in-spite of making a blood pact with the devil — had a powerful encounter with God that changed her life and the lives of people around her forever. You’ll also read about the work starting in Sinop and how the new base is already moving forward, seeing fruit from their efforts. We also present a great Kingdom-opportunity to you: to give to the one-time start-up costs of this base plant. Praise God, His Kingdom of Light continues to expand in the darkness!

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At 7:30 p.m., Monday March 29, the Paz Church in Santarém celebrated a new move of God.

Last night was historic for the Paz church in Santarém. We celebrated the laying of the cornerstone for the new church which will hold more than 10,000 people. This has been a church project in the making for a long time, and it was very emotional to see construction finally begin.

The Paz Church in Santarém was planted nearly 30 years ago by PAZ missionaries Luke and Abe Huber. Now pastored and directed by Brazilians, the Paz Church in Santarém has 45 Sunday services at different around the city. With over 5,000 home churches (cell groups) led by leaders in the church, there are an estimated 40,000 plus in attendance. Many services are so full that people are turned away because there is no more room, and these are the people most needing to hear the message of hope in Jesus Christ. They’ve added as many different screens, locations and venues as possible, but now, to fulfill the their vision of 120,000 disciples, a larger building is desperately needed.

Many years of preparation and planning culminated last night when a great celebration was held on the very land where the building will be constructed. A stage was donated to use for the event and was set up at the back of the lot. A huge crowd turned out to praise and worship our Lord for all the amazing things He’s done in Santarém, what He’s doing and what He will do. Thousands upon thousands crowded onto the church’s lot and passionately worshipped the Lord.

Pastor/Missionary Abe Huber spoke about how far the church has come, from its super small beginning to where it is today.

Pastor Abe Huber shared a powerful message about how the Lord is preparing His true temple — each and every believer that makes up His Church — to be the Church that will win and disciple the nations. This building is important because each and every person represents a soul of eternal worth to God — a soul that has been made with the purpose of being a temple of the Holy Spirit.

After the sermon, the cornerstone was brought out to be consecrated. Paz pastors — who have invested their lives for the Kingdom of God — spoke and prayed. Tears were shed over how much grace God has poured out over the Amazon in just the past 30 years. It was a powerful, prophetic moment as the whole project was put before the Lord — the next step to winning and discipling the people of the Amazon Basin!

The atmosphere was electric as the pastors descended into the middle of the crowd to lay the cornerstone. God’s presence could be felt as in tears the cornerstone was laid and the Church sang “God of this City.” Great things have happened, and greater things are yet to come, as an entire city is not only coming to the Lord, but producing a new generation of leaders to take the Kingdom of God to all of the Amazon, Brazil and yes — the world.

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Click the first picture to enter slideshow mode to see these great pictures full-size. Then use your arrow keys to advance the show.

A special thanks to Micah Gregory for these great pictures. To see even more great pictures from this event, visit PAZ’s facebook page.

With thousands of new leaders being won and trained, your partnership with us is even more vital than ever. Having started these churches, Project AmaZon now supports our churches and their church-planting efforts. It takes large churches like the church in Santarém to support a huge church-planting effort to the rural and unreached parts of Brazil all around them. We have planted several bases across the Amazon and our vision is to equip our churches to win and disciple new leaders who will do the same. With thousands of new leaders being raised up to reach the rest of the Amazon, are you ready to join with us to equip these men and women of God and send them to the lost?! As you can see, our churches and the leaders they produce are having a huge impact. There are many practical ways you can get involved and help the Gospel go to unreached.

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3-day National Fast, Feb 4, 5, 6

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 churches.
• For the transportation needs of our workers and pastors (boats, canoes, trucks, bicycles, etc).
• The finances to cover the expenses of our workers and transportation costs.
• For more quality workers, supervisors and local leaders.
• More health trips that open the doors to church planting.
• For leaders to be faithful with their statistics.
• To strengthen our 500 churches and plant 500 more by 2014.
• For 120,000 disciples in Santarém by 2014.

We have some big kingdom goals! Would you join with us to see God’s favor poured out on us even more as we put together all the details of planting 500 more church by 2014?

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The new PAZ 2014 website goes where no PAZ website has gone before!

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 photo book The PAZ Picture exPerience, a detailed overview of PAZ called PAZ Facts & Figures, and more little goodies.

The new PAZ 2014 website is part of an even greater effort to keep you up to date with all the God is doing here and how you can help. We (Project AmaZon) have also started our own facebook group, where you can stay even more up-to-date with PAZ’s day-to-day happenings. Many of our missionaries already use facebook to stay connected with friends and family all over the world, so PAZ will harness facebook to empower church planting! Join by clicking here.

And that’s just the beginning, as there are a number of other surprises in store that you’ll just have to wait to see. We look forward to using all the available resources we have to empower the Kingdom work of reaching the estimated 35,000 Basin villages without any evangelical church.

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