Also met Pr Paulo Jnr,Sal da Terra (SdaT) and Go to the Nations, (GTTN) who was preaching at evening meeting. This was our first chance to meet with Paulo Jnr as he had been travelling.
7pm - Went to Centro Mundial de Adoracao (CMA) church in Conjunto Fabiana to meet with Pr Julio and Pra Elizete. Duncan preached and Jan shared some news. We received a standing ovation and an exceptionally welcome. Pizza with leaders after meeting.
Monday 23rd – am - Met with Pr Andre,Jean and some members of ICN at Net travel agency.
12.00 - Duncan met with pastors and leaders of S daT for lunch at Papillon Hotel
2pm – we met with Leandro, Luciana and Samara from Igreja de Cristo (IdeC) at Flamboyant shopping. Leandro introduced us to Pr Augustino from I de C.
8pm – supper with Rodrigo and Lidia from S daT and group from I de C.
Tuesday 24th- am - Met at Torre de Oracao (Prayer Tower) to give full Kairos presentation. Due to a Bank Holiday there were fewer pastors present than expected (15) but it was worth the time and the course was well received . We gave out several Kairos information folders. Elizabeth Albernaz,, Nationalleader of Intercessor team gave us a very warm welcome and her support for the Kairos course. She even offered her Prayer school in the Centro area as a possible venue for the course next year.
12.30 – lunch with Ana and Alessandro from Sal da Terra.
We moved from Marniz and Celso’s apartment to Paulinho and Rachel (SdaT) on Rua 3 in the centro area of city. They were very generous and made a car available to us for the rest of our stay that greatly facilitated our travelling around the city and enabled us to see more people.
Wednesday 25th - 8.30am met with Joao Paulo (Adora Brasil team) to travel to Prison to meet Pr Itamar and discuss “Ore Goias” – plan of Edemundo Dias de Oliveira Filho, the Secretary of Justice for the State of Goias to raise 10,000 intercessors to pray for the prison system in State of Goias. The campaign will be launched on 15th November (Bank Holiday) at a daylong prayer event at the prison-based on text, Is 32.17.
12.30 – met with Pr Andre (ICN) - more talk re Kairos. We discussed the best venue for Kairos – Andre suggested Maranatha a as good, impartial base.
7.30pm - ICN house group at Trinidade- more time with Pr Andre and his wife, Liliane.
Thursday 26th – 7.15am met with Gilberto from Agape, (a drug and alcohol rehabiliation centre) for a visit to a state school. Spoke on Aids and You book by Dr Patrick Dixon in 8 class rooms. Left 2 books per classroom and 2 copies for school library. We took 1,000 copies of the book to Brazil over last few flights. Gilberto would like us to arrange another delivery from ACET.
Friday 27th – 12.00 lunch with Pr Julio and Pra Elizete from CMA
5pm – met with Ana and Alessandro at parents home. Also met Suely – lady who used to help in our home
8pm - Sal da Terra meeting at Av 90, Setor Sul, 2nd Church Anniversary meeting. Pr Andre preaching and worship by ICN so a good opportunity to meet with some of congregation of ICN as well as SdaT.
Saturday 28th
Met with Matt and Jane Hale and family (from Leith Baptist church – now based in ICN/Sal da Terra, in small city of Morrinhos, Goias- 2 hours drive from Goiania). Discussed their work at Casa Vida Crianca- home for girls at risk.
8pm – S daT meeting – Adora Brasil leading worship. Paulo Jnr preached. Baptisms.
Sunday 29th
9am – spent day with Pr Zamir and Pra Rosangela (Igreja Batista das Oliveiras, Senedor Canedo on outskirts of Goiania). Shared re Kairos.
6pm – Sal da Terra main meeting –more baptisms. Pr Euripedes from Maranatha preached. Paulo Jnr invited Duncan and I to briefly share re Kairos from main platform.
Met with Paulo Jnr after meeting to further discuss Kairos possibilities- he agreed that Maranatha would be a good venue for Kairos course. Opportunity to discuss more with PJnr.
Monday 30th – Duncan caught 8.30am flight from Goiania to Sao Paulo and 6.10pm to London, Heathrow.
1.30 – Jan met with Luciana from I de C.
5pm – met with Adora Brasil
Tuesday 31st
8.00am – Jan at Torre de Oracao for full Kairos power point presentation to 18 Pastors. Paulo Jnr gave his full support to Duncan and Jan and Kairos in an introduction and short talk after the presentation. Gave everyone present a Kairos information folder.
An interesting aside was that someone distributed leaflets for a prophetic school in a neighbouring state 11-15th November – led by a certain “Martin Scott”– I gave my full recommendation that it was worth the trip!
Met with leaders at Torre de Oracao. ( they are in desperate financial need to keep the prayer tower operational- need $R10,000 by 5th January- about $R4 to £1)
4pm - Jan spoke at S da T women’s meeting
7pm - time with Rachel, hostess
Wednesday 1st November – Jan moved to home of Pr Julio and Elizete but kept Paulinho and Rachel’s car.
Afternoon – time with Elizete
7pm – went to another state school with Gilberto and Walter from Agape, to give talks on Aids and HIV, using Aids and You book. In the evenings the classes are composed mainly of mature students- upwards of 20 years old. A very good response – lots of questions and discussion. Left 2 copies of the books for each classroom and school library.
Thursday 2nd – Dia dos Finados (Day of the Dead) – Bank Holiday.
Went with Elizete to youth meeting for teenage girls at Anapolis. Breakfast and lunch. Jan shared short talk.
8pm – gave full Kairos power point presentation at I de C mid week meeting (invitation of Pr Augustino). Left him with more leaflets to share with other Igreja de Cristo churches in Goiania. Had supper at church meal.
Friday 3rd am – time with leaders at CMA office
2pm – visit with Gilberto and Walter to 3 Metamorphose houses - centres for drug and alcohol rehabilitation (one female, two male- 1st and 2nd stages of rehabiliation) in central area. Also visited the Agape farm to view the improvements – including a new football pitch – very important resource in Brazil!- and to the see plans for further development of site which include 4 new accommodation blocks – each to house 12 men and an administration block with office for dentist, clinic and base area for teaching skills such as car mechanics and computer skills + a chapel. (They need $R 25,000 for stage 1 and $R 90,000 for stage 2- about $R4 to £1)
8pm - went to home cell meeting at CMA with Elizete – Jan gave talk.
Saturday 4th – 8.30am met with Romis to go to Citywide Youth leaders meeting at S da T. 24 leaders were present, representing several different churches. Pr Marcao from S daT and Romis (Adora Brasil) shared their vision for congregations to work together in unity, gathering the youth of the city to attract a new generation of “Tribes” for Jesus. They presented 2 projects to the group – a 24-7 prayer meeting for the youth of the city during the first week of December and a fortnightly gathering at Vaca Brava park, called “Password”– ‘ discover the password for your life!’ the first is scheduled for Thursday 9th November at 8pm.
Jan was able to spend time in 24-7 prayer tent at Sal da Terra before leaving meeting.
2pm – Jan joined the prison ministry team of Adora Brasil to go back to the men’s Semi Open prison where we used to go every Saturday afternoon. Jan spoke on Phil 4, 4-9 and received applause at the end. Several prisoners remembered her from previous visits but the majority were new inmates. The team serve the men with a snack and drink.
Two financial gifts from a Farnham congregation have enabled the team to buy personal hygiene kits to distribute to the men– tooth brush, paste, soap, razor, toilet paper etc, writing paper for the inmates to send a letter to their family – we also took a photo for them to include in their message- the team delivered the letters by hand to meet the families and pray with them. We also bought a set of Bibles to give to each prisoner.
5.30pm – visit with Elizete to Feira da Lua market
8pm – Engagement party at church – Pr Julio prayed with couple.
Sunday 5th
11am – Baptism at CMA – 10 people from age 13 to 55
Lunch with at Julio’s parents with Julio’s very large family of sisters and brothers, in laws, nephews nieces etc
6.30pm - meeting at CMA. Julio told church about the plan to take Kairos to Goiania next year. Jan prayed and spoke to the 10 who were baptised.
10.00pm - met with youth from I de C
Monday 6th –
Visit to town market
12.00 - airport for flight to Sao Paulo. Evening flight to London, Heathrow- Jan was delighted to get an upgrade to business class - WOW!!!
Tuesday 7th –
Jan met Anderson Lima, Pete Roe and Rachel at luggage collection – they had all been with Martin Scott in Brazil and we were on same flight but in world traveller section! The long delay in the luggage arrival was excellent opportunity for Jan to chat personally with Anderson re Kairos and what had happened in Goiania and in the Prophetic schools with Martin Scott.
(Saturday 4th November - Duncan went to Bognor Regis, England to the Go to the Nations conference and met with various people from Goiania and Sao Paulo as well as UK – a small world!)
We went to Goiania with 3 main goals in mind and we feel that all these were fulfilled.
- to spend time with our friends and refresh relationships
- to present Kairos taster courses with the view to launching the course in Goiania, Brazil with a team next year.
- to consider whether we had left any deposit from our 2 year 3 months in Goiania and whether there is more for us to do.
We were amazed at how much we achieved in the short time. We were able to meet and spend quality time with all the key people on our “list”. Every single engagement/appointment worked out so well. The use of the car was an extra blessing. We received extremely warm welcomes and receptions everywhere we went – especially from CMA.
It was also a great pleasure to re-visit well known places around Goiania like the parks, Flamboyant shopping centre - even Extra Supermarket!
We were very pleased that for both of us our level of fluency in Portuguese seemed to improve. This was especially true for Jan on the second week as she only spoke Portuguese!
The concept of a Kairos course in Goiania- possibly during the first week of April next year was very well received and Pastors Paulo Jnr, Andre, Julio, Zamir, Euripedes and Adora Brasil all gave their support. We were able to organise and facilitate the translation of the power point Taster presentation and the Kairos publicity leaflet has also been translated- but not colour printed yet. I understand from Anderson that all that remains to be done is the final dubbing of some videos/dvds.
We were in great demand for talks and visits during our stay. Much of this was building on previous work- eg. working with Gilberto on the Aids and You project, the open prison, taking part in meetings at various congregations, also some pastoral work.
The door is definitely open for a Kairos course.
We were greatly encouraged to see how closely Andre is now working with Paulo Jnr and also how Adora Brasil are now working with Marcao from Sal da Terra to create the new youth tribes concept.
The weekly pastors meeting at the Prayer Tower, convened by Paulo Jnr is also a great encouragement to us. Adora Brasil and several youth are also attending this meeting – so it is not just pastors!
We are praying about our next steps. Clearly the concept of “neither here nor there but both here and there” is still a NOW word for us.
We will be talking with Linda Harding, Kairos Co-ordinator for Europe with Responsibility for Development, as soon as possible. We are having lunch with Ron and Marilyn Viner next week and plan to meet with our full Advisory group on November 26th after Colin and Marie Easton return from their trip to Criciuma in Southern Brazil. We also appreciate the input of Martin Scott who is currently still in Brazil having spent several weeks travelling to different areas with the Prophetic school.
Duncan is continues to teach Maths 3 days a week at Hurtwood House near Cranleigh. Jan continues to be involved in initiatives in the local and wider area. She has also been able to do some supply teaching in Farnham.
Thank you for your continued interest and support. We would love to hear from you if you have any comments or questions.
9th November 2006
