The Amazon Basin
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About Project AmaZon
Hidden for many years in the Amazon Basin, Project AmaZon represents a powerful movement in church-planting and world-changing. The vision of Project AmaZon is to plant 100,000 churches, concentrating on the unreached Amazon Basin and moving out to all of Brazil and the world. This intense focus on the Great Commission has been met with God’s blessing and favor in extraordinary ways.
The brochures included in the PAZ Pack are loaded with stories, pictures and facts about PAZ. They’re a great way to learn about PAZ and free for download.
What God is doing in and through His people in the Amazon Basin is as amazing as the land itself. Those who are privileged to visit leave forever changed. Come with us on a short journey to the Amazon Basin to see the exciting, challenging and purposeful work for which we’ve come. Hear the call of Jesus resound through the ages:
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:19-20 NIV
The pictures below represent an overview of PAZ, each one telling a part of our story. Click the first picture to enter slideshow mode and get to know PAZ. Then get all the details in our 5-part series about the mission (links to the right).
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- The Amazon Basin, largely undeveloped and unreached, comprises nearly half of South America.
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- There are an estimated 35,000 villages like these without any evangelical influence, interspersed throughout the basin.
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- PAZ’s national base is in Santarém, a city of 200,000 in the middle of the Amazon Basin.
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- The PAZ Church in Santarém has an estimated 40,000 members meeting in 45 Sunday services.
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- Nearly 5,000 of these members are cell group leaders – small churches that meet in homes.
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- The purpose of each group is to win people for the Lord, develop new leaders and multiply.
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- The most successful leaders are then sent out to the unreached places of the Amazon.
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- Where beautiful people like these have yet to hear the life-changing Gospel.
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- PAZ opens the way for the Gospel by sending health missionaries to treat locals.
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- Dentists, nurses, doctors and water-filtration missionaries minister to the community.
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- And the pastor shares the Gospel, winning people for the Lord and starting a cell group.
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- The pastor trains in a local leader and the cell group grows and multiplies until it becomes large enough for a church building.
That’s PAZ in a nutshell, but there’s so much more to this exciting move of God. Dive in and learn more, starting with our mission field — the incredible Amazon Basin — in the first of a five-part multimedia series about Project AmaZon.
