After completing our pastoral ministry at the Vitmarsum church, we accepted an invitation from a missionary organization to join their team on a permanent basis. We will continue to live in Vitmarsum, but our work will be in Curitiba, which is about 60 kilometers away from us. My responsibilities include teaching (discipleship school and training pastors and missionaries) and assisting in establishing churches. Approximately 40 students are enrolled in the Missionary School! We teach a 3-month intensive leadership seminar, a 6-month seminar for pastors, and a 1-year discipleship school. Students come from all over Brazil. There are social workers from the Amazon working with indigenous people, as well as people from the South living in German colonies.
My wife Luciana continues to work with expectant mothers throughout Palmeira. Since the work has grown significantly, it is necessary to better coordinate support. Currently, she and three medical clinic staff members accompany women. Mothers who have already given birth have come and requested further support. This prompted Luciana to connect with women’s groups from different churches and direct these young mothers there. This way, this work brings the entire family into contact with churches and allows for much more intensive evangelism and ministry.
Our children are now teenagers and have grown up well. They are still attending school. We are all healthy, and everything is going well for us. Thank you for your prayers and financial support, as well as for all the messages through WhatsApp. We are very grateful to you for thinking of us.
Ministry in Brazil – Willi Dueck