Country
Brazil
“ABWE’s vision has always been to inspire believers around the world to pick up the torch of missions.” — Cal Clark, ABWE Regional Director in Brazil
The Spiritual Need in Brazil
Brazil boasts a massive land area that borders all but two countries in South America, making it the fifth-largest country in the world, and it is also the sixth most-populated with 216 million people. The diversity in landscape and climate contributes to the distinction of people groups, along with a rich history of multi-ethnic heritage. Brazilians celebrate unity in diversity at the core of their culture, including through food, music, and the arts.
While Brazil has the largest Roman Catholic population in the world, and a proportionally large number of evangelical believers (25%), it is home to many other religions, including ethnic religions and spiritism. In the Amazon region, there are many indigenous unreached people groups. Additionally, the nation is a second home for millions of expatriates from dozens of countries, offering religious freedom not experienced by some in their home countries.
The Brazilian church is beginning to send their own missionaries all over the world, but there is still a great need for evangelism, church planting, theological education, missions partnerships, and leadership training so that Brazil can continue to grow as a force for world missions.
Evangelical Missions To Brazil
For more than 70 years, ABWE missionaries in Brazil have been working with people from virtually every segment of society. From tribal outreach to isolated people groups accessible only by seaplane, to working in wealthy communities and the shanty towns just outside of them, and everything in between—we’ve seen the gospel do amazing things in Brazil, and there is so much more to be done.
There are many ways to serve the people of Brazil—such as church planting, theological education, evangelism and discipleship. Many Brazilian church leaders need training to help their congregations become passionate about sharing the gospel not only locally but around the world. Brazilians are internationally accepted by many countries, including some where North Americans are not. Seeds planted in Brazil may see a harvest around the globe, as the Brazilian missions movement grows.
Could God be calling you to serve in Brazil?
We'd love to talk with you about how God is leading you.
Opportunities
Camp Ministry Leader
BrazilOur team is looking for families, professionals, college grads, and/or interns with a passion for Christian camp ministry.
Children’s Worker
BrazilUse your passion and skills with children and adolescents to help fulfill the Great Commission.
Church Planting and Strengthening
BrazilWe are looking for new teammates to get involved in church planting.
Projects
All Brazil Conference
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
Amazonas Hospital
The Amazonas Hospital is promoting the gospel through healthcare by providing quality outpatient services to people in need. Services the hospital provides include:
Prenatal care, educational resources for expecting mothers, labs, ultrasounds, and HIV testing
Ophthalmological (eye) care, screening for eye diseases, referrals to specialists/opticians, and glasses distribution
A surgical clinic with outpatient procedures and consultations
A library of resources, including personal development, multimedia resources, and reference materials for on-site use
Amazonas Hospital aims to be "recognized as a Christian place, a reference in humanized outpatient treatment, where people are well-received and treated with respect and competence."…
Belo Children’s Home
Belo Children's Home was founded by a local member of an ABWE church plant in Brazil with a heart for reaching out to poor and orphaned children. Today the ministry also aids in adopting out orphans, and caring for at-risk girls. Donations to Belo Children's Home are used to buy clothes for the children, mattresses as needed, food for the children, building renovations, etc.…
All Brazil Conference
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
Amazonas Hospital
The Amazonas Hospital is promoting the gospel through healthcare by providing quality outpatient services to people in need. Services the hospital provides include: Prenatal care, educational resources for expecting mothers, labs, ultrasounds, and HIV testing Ophthalmological (eye) care, screening for eye diseases, referrals to specialists/opticians, and glasses distribution A surgical clinic with outpatient procedures and consultations A library of resources, including personal development, multimedia resources, and reference materials for on-site use Amazonas Hospital aims to be "recognized as a Christian place, a reference in humanized outpatient treatment, where people are well-received and treated with respect and competence."…
Belo Children’s Home
Belo Children's Home was founded by a local member of an ABWE church plant in Brazil with a heart for reaching out to poor and orphaned children. Today the ministry also aids in adopting out orphans, and caring for at-risk girls. Donations to Belo Children's Home are used to buy clothes for the children, mattresses as needed, food for the children, building renovations, etc.…
Boa Terra General Fund
Great things are in progress on the mission field through this ministry! Our missionaries will be sharing more project details shortly and look forward to how you might get involved. If you need to get in touch immediately, let us know at info@abwe.org…
Camp Paradise – Recife
Camp Paradise, located in Northeast Brazil, is a camp for children and teens. Local churches and groups utilize it too. Lake Ann Camp in Michigan, partners with Camp Paradise.…
Church & Training Center in Eusebio, Brazil
The Igreja Bíblica Batista do Eusébio (IBBE) is a small congregation in Eusébio, Brazil situated in the state of Ceará. Three years ago, a small warehouse was rented in which this church plant began to meet. Over the past 2 years the church has experienced rapid growth and has quickly outgrown its rented space.…
Dois Irmãos Life Center
The church currently meeting at the Dois Irmãos Life Center has outgrown its rented space and needs to relocate within the town of Dois Irmãos to a larger property possibly with an existing building or build a new one, and outfit it for ministry and worship services.…
Elaina Southwell
Elaina is a pre-field missionary who will be joining God’s ministry in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Elaina will partner with other missionaries in church planting and with local churches to develop community outreach programs as means for evangelism. Elaina’s ministry will focus on sharing the gospel through evangelism and discipleship, focusing on compassion ministries and women’s and family ministry.…
Hunsrik People Group Outreach
The Joshua Project estimates there are over 5 million people in southern Brazil who make up the Hunsrik Homeland (Germanic) of which only 1.5% are evangelical. Funds will be used provide outreach activities and resources for locating, planting, and outfitting churches within this region.…
Live Global | Seminary and Theological Training with Diego (Brazil)
Diego is committed to investing in Brazilian students. Brazil is a large country, and Christ’s Church is thriving. Diego’s expectation is to see highly trained students and researchers (via partnerships with Tyndale House, Cambridge, UK) working in various seminaries and churches across the country as well as producing high quality theological writing for the Church.…
Logos Baptist Seminary
At the Logos Baptist Seminary of São Paulo, Joe serves as professor and dean of the master’s program and coordinator of the Masters extension in Angola, Africa. He also raises funds for the school. Meta serves as one of the two librarians.…
Lomba Grande Retreat Center and Church Plant
We desire to support a church plant and retreat center in Lomba Grande, Brazil. The objective of lgreja da Esperanca is to evangelize the local community, disciple believers, and train future church leaders. The objective of the Sitio da Esperanca is to provide a location for local churches to evangelize, disciple, and train people for ministry and leadership in the local churches through conferences, retreats, and day camps.…
MMM Airplane Project
OUR PURPOSE IS Fly to reach far away areas. Preach to save souls in communities where is difficult, or dangerous or inaccessible to arrive. Teach to disciple them to adore and serve the Lord Our God. Help those in need providing aerial logistics.…
Multi-Cultural Ministries Maranatha (MMM)
Seventeen years ago, Jenuan, the pastor of a tiny church in a poor region of Brazil, was invited to an ABWE missions conference where he realized that Brazilians could, and should, have a role in the Great Commission. Armed with this vision and aided by ABWE, Jenuan founded Maranatha Multicultural Ministry (MMM), a Brazilian-run mission board that supports and sends Brazilian missionaries around the world — often into places that Americans can’t easily access.…
New Song Church Project
ABWE missionaries work as a team in about 60 countries to share the story of hope, build communities of faith, and serve the world with love.…
Olive Leaf Project
Olive Leaf Project exists to provide continued counseling and assistance from the May 2024 floods in South Brazil. Olive Leaf Project will provide continued flood relief through things like counseling, receiving and distribution of donations, construction projects, social relief projects, classes, tutoring, etc.…
SIBIMA – Fortaleza Seminary
The Seminary and Biblical Institute Maranatha (SIBIMA) is a non-profit evangelical institution of theological education. Its objective is to: Provide education with a biblical worldview to men and women preparing for Christian ministry. Cultivate in students a life centered on the person of Jesus Christ.…
Sorriso Church Property Purchase
This project is the first phase of a project to eventually construct a church building in the west central Brazilian city of Sorriso. Sorriso is the agri-business capital of Brazil and located in one of the fastest growing regions of the country.…
The Hangout – College Student Outreach
The Hangout is “a place to relax and connect” in a comfortable space. It allows students and local business people to have a place to feel at home and feel like they belong. Some people come every day others at least once or twice a week.…
The Hangout Transformation
Missionary Erin Wawro was strolling the campus of a Brazilian university one night when God impressed upon her heart, What about all these college students? After noticing a building with “for rent” signs, and renovating that space, Erin opened the Hangout in 2015.…
