God uses ordinary people for His extraordinary work!!!!

This past weekend Jeff and I had the privilege to be the guest speakers at a youth retreat here in Brazil in Santo Aleixo , Magé, with over 90 youth!

The theme of the retreat was "Transformers" and we shared how, as we offer ourselves to His service, to transform lives, Jesus as well, transforms us to what He wants us to be.  

We spoke about our mission work here in Brazil to motivate the youth to become even more engaged in missions and gave practical ways we use to share the gospel and encourage fellow Christ followers.

As well, we shared our testimonies of faith, our call to Brazil, our call to leave the church building and reach out to people on the street, the homeless, transvestites, prostitutes and children in high-risk areas.

The picture above is of a beautiful young Brazilian woman who, with tears of joy, shared with Diane that she felt God transforming her during our 2-hour talk!

We spoke about different ways that we street-evangelize, using skits, the evangecube, conversations and asking good questions.

 

We made "Story Ropes" that we learned from Marge Malwitz as an artistic way for people to share their life stories and testimonies.

We met a young couple that are friends of our "Brazilian Family", the Joia's!!!!  A true blessing from the Lord!

We praise God for the privilege it was to speak and to meet this young body-of-Christ that desires to learn practical ways to work together to see more and more lives transformed by Christ!

Raising up missionaries here in Rio,

Jeff and Diane

Acts 4:13, "When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus."