Colin Dye shares his recent mission to Brazil.

Alcance Church, Curitiba

In October 2021, Amanda and I were set apart by KT for the work of missions. Following the leading of the Spirit, we have visited at least 12 nations averaging one mission per month.

Wherever we go, we are greeted by former KT members and leaders. Often these people are key players in the work we do outside the UK. The recent mission to Brazil found us working with Emerson Rocha, Leyff Wenderson and Willians and Sandra Barbosa, all previous leaders within the London City Church, KT Network.

Leyff Wenderson

“My time in the KT Brazilian fellowship and IBIOL was both the foundation and inspiration of my ministry. It is so good to be reconnected with Colin.”

Leyff was a student at IBIOL 25 years ago and now leads a church in Effingham, Illinois. He is a powerful evangelist with a strong healing ministry. Together, in Sao Paulo and Curitba we saw deaf and blind people healed, and as well as those with significant mobility challenges. Many people made decisions to become followers of Christ.

Emerson Rocha

“Having finished at IBIOL, I was Colin’s assistant for 2 years. Now I lead CfAN in Brazil. London was my home for several years, and KT is where I would be if the Lord had not called me back to Brazil.”

Emerson greeted me at Curitiba Airport, helped me with my bags and said, “This is how it all began!” Emerson now is very well-known and highly-respected in Brazil and helped mail out a gospel book by Reinhard Bonnke to 1 million pastors and leaders across Latin America. He organised a packed programme for me in some of the largest churches in the region.

Willians and Sandra Barbosa

“We look forward to what God has for us in Brazil and we know that our time in KTLCC was preparing us for what God is doing now.”
Willians and Sandra helped plant several Brazilian churches in London and also served for many years as overseers in our network. Now, many years later, Willians is teaching the Sword of the Spirit training programme in Sao Paulo. Sandra has powerful prophetic ministry and witnesses numerous miracles.

John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement was banned from preaching in the Anglican churches of his day. That did not stop him. He went on to say, “The world is now my parish.” KT’s ministry and influence goes way beyond the boundaries of the M25, reaching through Elim missions and KT’s church-based initiatives.

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We just got back from Jordan where Amanda and I ministered in several churches.
It was so good to see the work of the believers serving the large numbers of refugees from
Syria and Iraq.

BACK TO BRAZIL

Before going to Jordan, we ministered in Brazil. Amanda joined me for 2 weeks and I stayed
on for 3 more. We visited 5 different cities, preaching in some new churches as well as
developing our existing church relationships.

“Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.”
Hebrews 10:24 NLT

NOVO TEMPO CHURCH: PERNAMBUCO STATE BRAZIL

SAO PAULO: TORRE FORTE CHURCH CONFERENCE

HOPE CLINIC: AMMAN JORDAN

TRAUMA COUNSELLING

REFUGEES LOST EVERYTHING

There are some 2 million refugees in Jordan without work or income who rely on voluntary groups for any help they can obtain. 

Believers demonstrate the love of Christ and raise finance to meet the needs of those who have nowhere else to turn.

PULSO YOUTH MINISTRY

Hope for young offenders in Brazil’s juvenile detention centres as Biorki inspires them to take up writing and performing rap music as a means of self-expression.

The gospel is preached and the love of Christ is demonstrated.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR US 

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A Guardian Newspaper article on 3 March, 2022 showed the difficult and often brutal conditions of young offenders in Brazil’s overcrowded juvenile detention centres:

Under existing law, offenders aged 12 to 18 are supposed to be dealt with through community service or education, with a maximum penalty of up to three years at a detention centre for the most serious crimes. In reality, however, young people who commit minor infractions are often locked up in overcrowded facilities with scant opportunity for rehabilitation and education, or protection from mistreatment, claim campaigners.

According to Human Rights Watch, in 2014 about 22,000 young people in Brazil were housed at juvenile detention centres, which were designed to hold a maximum of 18,000. But overcrowding is just one aspect of a regime that inspections have found to be brutal, with youths locked up for hours in cell-like rooms with few opportunities for recreation – conditions that have triggered frequent riots.

FOR FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/03/brazil-crime-rates-brutal-treatment-young-offenders

Free My Verse Project

Biorki, a successful Rap Artist from São Paulo State regularly visits juvenile detention centres to inspire them to take up writing and performing rap music as a form of self-expression.

A key member of our PULSO youth programme in Brazil, Biorki has performed at many of our youth events and also appeared on our discussion panels, presenting Christ in a contemporary way. It is impossible to overstate the effect he is having on the young people he encounters both inside and outside prisons.  

Without such interventions, rehabilitation is almost impossible within the current penal system in Brazil.

“It is marvellous to see these young people previously without hope begin to grow in their self-esteem”,  Biorki commented. But he does need our support, in prayer and in finance.

Here is Biorki’s report:

The return to activities in the juvenile detention centre in the State of Rio de Janeiro in 2020 took place on the 25th of February. The planned date was 15th January, but we were delayed due to the change of management in J.L.A. (the unit where we carry out the project).

We started with a group of 10 teenagers and now we’re going into our third class, with 10 adolescents in each class.

In the first 3 weeks, we started the first stage of the project, which is a reading incentive to improve the writing skills that will be needed in the workshops.

Each member of the group started reading a book, despite the fact that the J.L.A. does not offer a large selection of books in line with the teenagers’ language and context.

After some exercises in writing, rhyming and verses, we started discussion on the theme chosen by adolescents (feelings). The discussion and reflection on the topic addressed is always very important, because this is where the change in the way of thinking and seeing their story will happen. The workshops build on this.

We are now entering the next week going into the song writing process, including the two new classes.

Next week, we are also organising an event at the unit, with some names from the Rio rap scene. We are currently making the contacts and raising the funds to be able to take a high impact group of artists to talk and perform live to the teenagers.

Hear Biorki now – Cristo Sarau  on YOUTUBE

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‘Virgins Wanted’-Brazilian Puts Her Virginity Up for Auction in New Documentary, Sparking Outrage

It is precisely because of the potency of sexuality in the context of marriage that the devil works so hard to get people to ?give away? their sexuality outside of that covenant relationship. The hedonistic culture of modern society makes it ever more difficult for people, especially young people, to save themselves for their future marriage partner.

To young people today I always say, ?draw a line?. It is important to recognise your limits and not go beyond them. Don?t play near the edge of the precipice in your relationships with others. Safeguard God?s very precious gift to you of your sexuality for the one person you will be committed to in marriage. Your virginity will be your ultimate wedding gift to your husband or wife. If it?s already too late for that, don?t despair. God can bless you, forgive you and restore you. All of that and more is not beyond Him and the cleansing power of the blood of Christ. But remember that intimacy is fragile and it needs security. The security needed to protect it is the marriage relationship. You should never give yourself to a person who has no intention of ultimately being in a covenant relationship with you.
This is primarily what the world does not understand and what leads people to become trapped in sexual sin. If it was just about what you did with your body, that would be one issue. But the fact is, what you do with your body involves the whole of your being, and that leads to parts being ripped out of your soul as you fall in and out of illicit sexual relationships. If that is the case for you, then you need to be rescued from that and receive healing.
No wonder there are so many damaged people in our society. People fail to recognise the damage that they inflict on themselves and others as they plunder God?s gift. Perhaps some reading this are feeling condemned because they have slept around in the past, or maybe you lost your virginity to someone other than your marriage partner? Thank God, there is good news. God can restore to you a purity of spirit and heart before Him, and He can wash all those sins away by the blood of another covenant: the blood of Jesus Christ, God?s Son, that washes and cleanses every sin. You can be, in the eyes of God and in the eyes of your husband or wife, a ?virgin?, if you will allow God to bring that healing into your life. But God does not usually act to restore the physical effects of previous sexual sin ? such as the rupture of the hymen. In that sense the loss of virginity is final and can never be restored. This shows the real value of virginity.
God is a Restorer and a Healer, but we must realise that all sin has consequences. Suppose you had committed murder before you became a Christian and you repented. Do you believe that God would forgive you and cleanse you with the blood of Jesus? Of course He would. But does it bring that dead man back to life? No. Similarly, there is a physical price to pay for sexual sin ? a price that society has scorned and lied about for years, and still does when it mocks young people who choose to remain virgins until marriage. The whole of society, those trendy, sophisticated, artistic elitists, pour condemnation and ridicule upon any young person wanting to live a pure life. But I want to tell you, there?s time to draw a line in the sand and say: ?Let?s help our young people understand and preserve the precious gift of virginity.?
 
 

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