In the greater Belém area, there are tens of thousands of river people called “Ribeirinhos” (Hee-bay-REE-nyos).  With the normal slow boat, there are 246 inhabited islands within a 2 hour trip from the city port.  Many are small islands with only a few families, but others are very large, with dozens of communities spread over the islands.  Within the same 2 hours, a car trip opens up multitudes more within the network of rivers in the area.  Our task is to share the Gospel of Christ and plant new churches with these people.  We have chosen, for our first task, to not “run over” those who are on our path to the Ribeirinhos.  Therefore, as we are working on the process of identifying current work being done by churches on the islands in order to find the less evangelized, we are planting the seeds of faith with those we run into on a daily basis.  Please pray for the Ribeirinhos of Belém, not just to hear the Gospel, but that they would be motivated to share their faith in ways that would affect the whole world.

For those of you who have been praying for us, thank you.  For anyone who would like to support our ministry through prayer, we are honored that you would spend a moment of your personal time with God to mention us and the work that He is completing around us.