It is interesting to me that they were doing over 90% right, but the other 10% which made all the difference was only understood by faith when they put the Lord's supernatural word into practice.  They were in the right place, at the right time, fishing with the right nets and boat, floating on a sea with hundreds of fish, but they only caught something after the word of the Lord had been obeyed. 

We believe that the Lord is sharpening our strategy concerning church planting in Brazil.  I believe that He desires to use you, our partners as part of it.  We believe that real church planting should transform the city.  The church is not just a sign on a building.  For this reason, we feel that the Lord directed us to do an in-depth analysis of Brazil.  Using the latest census data, we unveiled that there are literally hundreds of municipalities (legally incorporated cities) with less that 3% Christians.  These are cities where the gospel as we know it had never been preached and in the vast majority of cases, there is no church whatsoever.  In fact, there are over 6.8 million Brazilians who have no access to the life giving body of Christ that we take so much for granted.   Even if these 6.8 million people were to have an experience with Jesus, they would not be able to gather with any other Christians since there is no church.   

When hearing these statistics we felt powerless to tackle these hundreds of cities.  We then further analyzed the census data, limiting the cities to all cities over 10,000 in population.  This narrows the scope down to exactly 153 of the largest cities.  This is the exact number of large fish that were counted in the net of the huge catch in John 21:11. 

Please pray for us as we tackle this huge task over the next five years.  We don't want to simply administratively plant 153 churches, but we want to see 153 cities be transformed as the kingdom of heaven arrives in those cities.  We believe this is the last evangelistic mission frontier in Brazil.   Our desire is to:

We already have the structure for training in place.  We have already had experience in the crusades having impacted over 12 interior cities with crowds of up to 5,000.  We have already planted over 500 churches.  Please consider helping us with the finances to reach these last 153 unreached cities.  The cost for each city is $10,000.  This includes all the training, evangelism and support for the church for the first year. 

We are also believing the Lord to provide us:

• A Mobile Crusade Unit (MCU) which is a semi-tractor trailer truck converted to a stage and sound system capable of reaching crowds of up to 10,000 people.
• A Cessna 210 single engine plane to move between these cities since there is no commercial aviation available to any of these cities and car trips range from 20-40 hours from Rio each way.