And the countdown continues.

Well, we've gotten down to the single digits. 9 days until Belo Horizante, Brazil is my home for 2 months. Incredibly hard to believe! It seems a lot more real now and I can't contain my excitement!!!


Our team of 18 college students and 2 staff leaders will move to Brazil May 12th and live there until July 7th. Here is a picture of our team!

We will be ministering on two college campuses in Belo Horizante.
A few quick facts about Brazil:

• Belo Horizante is the third largest city in Brazil with over 3.5 million people
• There are over 130,000,000 Non-Christians in Brazil
• College students are among the least evangelized people groups in Brazil with over 1,500,000 students in 871 universities. 

 The main thrust of the summer is to build relationships with Brazilian students in order to share the gospel and to train them as disciples of Christ. We'll have evangelistic and leadership retreats and Bible studies, but the main focus will be put in forming friendships with the students and gain their trust as we yearn to share the truth of the gospel with them and live it out in front of them. Our summer is sponsored by Campus Outreach Memphis, the ministry I am involved with at Murray State. If you want to learn more about CO, you can read more here...

www.comemphis.org

I have a few prayer requests as we are really getting down to the wire and heading out soon!

1. That God would provide. Our team still has some financial support to raise in order to fund the necessary expenses of the trip. 
2. That the Lord would unite our team more each day we are there and would show we are disciples of Christ by how we love one another (John 13:35)
3. That we would have favor with the Brazilian students. Pray they would spend a lot of time with us giving us opportunity to share the gospel.
4. That seeds would be planted and the Lord would bear fruit, ultimately establishing disciples in Brazil and the ministry would continue multiplying to give God glory!

I am very excited for this opportunity to live out the great commission, grow closer to God, and be matured in my personal walk with Him. I will be keeping this updated as the summer goes on!

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

(Matthew 9:36-38 ESV)