My time in Brazil

I had a really good time in Goiania. On Friday (25 Oct) I had two sessions. The first was with a group of young people who were doing business as missions. Very enterprising young people who were running a language training centre and using the facilities and social platform to reach the youths in the country. They are also motiving the next gen to go on missions and serve the Lord through their secular skills. This is something I don't see in Singapore. I shared with them my journey and the all listen attentively, some were in tears. 

Later in the afternoon I was invited to a podcast discussion on the importance of discipleship in missions. This podcast is going to go all over the world, especially in Brazil. It was quite an experience for me but very enriching.

Saturday and Sunday, I was involved in the Missions Conference in Calvario Baptist Church. Pst Leandro is the senior pastor of the church and Pst Matthew is his coworker. Both of them are our partnership in the work we do in Pakistan. Both are wonderful men of God. 

This is a missions minded church and very much involved in mission work all over the world. Their aim is to encourage young people to use their skills in the mission field, especially in unreached people groups, which is quite prevalent in Brazil. It was a blessing to share in the conference on different themes on missions.

Pst Matthew and his wife. He is an architect by profession but serving the Lord full-time. Wonderful couple

I also had the opportunity to meet young professionals who are preparing themselves to go to the mission field. They raise their own support to do this work. 

The other speaker for the conference was a Seminary teacher, Pastor Thomas. He is a lawyer by profession but now serving in the seminary training the Indians from the Amazon forest to reach the unreached in the deep areas. 

As I listen to the stories of these missionaries, I have no words to describe my feelings, just overwhelmed. Their sacrifices in reaching the tribes in the Amazon forest was just unbelievable. What we are doing is nothing compared to what these missionaries are doing. I just cried. 

What drives these people? What is their motivation? What do these people have, that many of us lack? 

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