October 4, 2005
Pray for Your Missionaries in Brazil
I just got the following in an e-mail from Rick McClain, one of our veteran missionaries in Belem, Brazil:
Last week at this time we were praying about a problem in the poor neighborhood about a half mile from our church. Many kids and few adults in our services come from there. A well established drug dealer was beginning to pay some of our older children to carry messages to certain locations. The next step would be packages. And the pattern has been that some would be be abused sexually and perhaps beaten. Actually this guy is the brother of one of the new converts whose picture I showed last year on furlough. But the new convert has sinced moved to the interior. On Monday three gunmen shot him nine times with nine millimeter pistols. He was buried on Tuesday. Some of our people in that neighborhood spent Tuesday night in the church to avoid being at home at that time. There was another related murder Tuesday night but it was in the next neighborhood. Other than that it has been a quiet week and I had a good baptism class on Thursday with five in attendance. Now we have a request for a class for those who are not yet saved but want to know more.
Posted by Andrew on October 4, 2005 4:03 PM.
Comments
Posted by: Elmoreen De Koker at February 5, 2006 1:18 PM
I spent a brief few weeks in Belem in 94 as a missionary and I know the troubles that can happen there. By day things seem fine and by night you can hear the troubles outside our compound.
Though the country is troubled, the citizens of Belem are the nicest and most belcoming people I have ever met. It will always be one of the biggest and greatest moments of my life.
I pray for all of those who make missonary work their life. It is dangerous and a great sacrifice. God Bless....
Posted by: Joanna at February 26, 2006 3:29 PM
I would like to have the contact information on Missionary Rick McClain.
I am the Missions Coordinator for a Bible Distribution Center.
I was in Brazil in June 2006 working with Missionaries.
Thanks & God Bless,
Brother Mike Mizell
BEAMS Missions Coordinator
Posted by: Mike Mizell at September 21, 2006 4:52 PM
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Greetings to you in Jesus Name.
I am a missionary too. Well, I am praying for all the missionaries who are facing persecutions, treats, danger, etc.
Remember God is ALWAYS IN CONTROL!!! He is able to change the situation in Brazil.
I am from South Africa, and is doing missionary work in Surinam, South America.
God bless you.
Elmoreen