A team of Arkansas Baptists recently embarked on a Brazil vision tour.
Arkansas Baptist State Convention Missions Team Leader Sam Roberts led the group of six pastors — four of whom brought their wives — on the missions trip. They traveled to Assu, Brazil, where they were able to meet, help train, encourage and build relationships with church planters as well as International Mission Board missionaries in the area.
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“The whole goal with this [vision tour] is to connect Arkansas Baptist churches with partnerships in Brazil. They knew that up front. We’re going to go and do some teaching, instruction and encouragement of church planters and as you’re going through this, we want you to be thinking about who could you possibly partner with,” Roberts said.
The group was stationed at Second Baptist Church of Assu and worked with IMB missionaries Rick and Jill Thompson. Roberts said in the last 21 years, Second Baptist Church has planted 42 other churches.
Throughout the week, the group prayer-walked in four different communities where some of the church planters are located and did door-to-door evangelism. Each of the team members had the opportunity of using the EvangeCube or Three Circles to share the gospel. The group was invited into 80 homes to share God’s Word with a couple hundred folks and had at least 41 they know that made professions of faith, Roberts noted. There were about 50 or so who said they would love for someone from the church to come back into their home and lead a Bible study.
“The individuals from the church plants will go into those homes and begin to lead a Bible study and introduce them more to Jesus and salvation,” Roberts said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Mary Alford and originally published by Arkansas Baptist News.
