The Servant Evangelism Hair Do Day

We wanted to share a few highlights from this past year. It is hard to believe that this year has already come and gone. Time seems to go quicker the older I get. We had our third camp, and it went very well. We put on our first women’s tea. Luciene has started giving English classes to kids from the neighborhood. We started a chess club, and have been teaching the neighborhood kids how to play. We did a servant evangelism event, doing the hair of women in the neighborhood. We now have three family groups going, and another that is just starting.

Luciene translating for Connie Wragge at the Women's Tea.

The Chess club has been an interesting experiment in icarnational mission.

I was able to go to Altamira for the InterVinha, a meeting of the Vineyards from the North, and it was such a blessing to get to see old friends, and to make new friends. Fernando Mora and his wife were also a great blessing, and really challenged all of us there, and I was so blessed to get to know them.

The YWAM team helped do a children's event

We had various visitors stay with us this year. We had a team from YWAM Brazil stay here, they were involved in evangelism, and we did a children’s event and an Impact event in a park. Steve and Elba Dolan from the Xingu Mission in Altamira, Tony and Susie Pfarr from Marysville, Natasha Seigrist from New York, and Connie Wragge from PhotoMission all came to visit us this year also. It was such a blessing to have each of them, and it would be a blessing to have you too, please contact us if you are interested in visiting and getting to know more about what we do here.

The YWAM team and the Evangelism Impact in the Park

Luciene and I attended a “School of Prophets” training, done by Martin Scott of England. We both learned a lot, and we were blessed to receive a prophecy from Martin that really encouraged us, as it was a confirmation of many things that the Lord had already revealed to us, and drew back the curtain a little on the dreams that God has for the future here in Macapá. I was also able to do a very intensive month-long YWAM training (called EIFOL in Portuguese), which was such a blessing. Luciene was able to do the SILCI training that was running in conjunction with it, and that was a blessing for her too. Besides getting to sit at the feet of some of the top teachers in Brazil and learning tons, God ministered directly to our lives also.

Coty and Eduardo- Pastor Coty is one of the top Brazilian leaders, as well as being an excellent author and speaker.

Space won’t permit to tell about all the parties, the evangelism impacts, the large soup meals and food for the poor. I thought I might close with a story.

Breathing fire during an evangelistic outreach

A group of us from the church were praying and worshipping here at the house, and I felt that we should go to the equator monument, and to the Sambadrome where they have carnival, and pray over those places. What we didn’t know is that they were getting ready for a big party at the Sambadrome, and it was full of people. We just walked right into the middle of the mob of people and started praising the Lord. Someone asked me for money, and I told him I didn’t have any, but I could pray for him. He accepted prayer, then started calling his friends over. “Pray for this guy, he really needs it, he killed his brother.” In talking to him, I found out that he had shot his brother in the chest with a shotgun, as well as killing an old man at another time, but “He was boring and no one really liked him anyway.” Each one of those young men had a story, one had been shot in the head and lived, another lifted his shirt to show the knife scars. We prayed for them, witnessed to them, did what we could to show them Jesus’ love.

Some time later I walked into an event at the Marco Zero Monument. Someone started waving. I looked behind me to see if he was waving to someone else, but no, he was waving at me, so I walked over. “You don’t remember me, do you?” he asked. “No” I replied. “That night, at the sambadrome, you guys prayed for me. I started going to church, and God has changed my life.”

We don’t always get to see the results of seeds that we plant, but sometimes, God pulls back the curtain, and shows us a glimpse of what such a simple act, done in obedience, can yield for the kingdom.

Martin Scott and the School of Prophets

A big thank you to each one of you that has invested in the ministry here in Macapá, each of you that has prayed for us and sent letters or boxes and encouragment. You make it possible for us to be here impacting lives and advancing the kingdom of God. May God richly bless each of you, and may you know greater peace, and greater depths of the grace of God in 2008.

Eduardo (Buck) and Luciene Schmidt and Family