Living Bread Ministries
Planting Churches Among the Desperately Poor





Beloved brethren, through the infinite grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, on September 3rd we were finally able to inaugurate Missão Batista na Vila Planalto. At this service we had the presence of our mother church , Igreja Batista Viva. Brothers and sisters from other churches, as well as some people from the community whom we had invited were also present. It was a packed house!
On September 4th we had our first service however, only my family was present. On the second Sunday however, we had three visitors, of which two were believers with a desire to join us and help in this new work. They have been a great help already! On the third Sunday we had five more visitors; all ladies from the community. This past Sunday, we had twelve people at the service counting my family and I. Thank God we are doing so well in this early stage. We’ve had an average of 10 people at the services and every Sunday we have a new visitor. Glory be to God.

Students for the Guitar Lessons
On September 18th, we launched free guitar lessons at the church plant as an outreach to the community. To our surprise we had eleven teenagers at the first class! During the lessons we read from the Bible and share about Jesus.
I ask that you’d be in prayer for us and especially the teens in the guitar lessons, for God to work in their lives. We have not been able to get them to come/stay for the services, but I am certain that at the right time God will enter their hearts.


Yesterday I was reflecting on all that the Lord has done in and through Living Bread during our brief history. It is amazing to see what he has accomplished in a relatively short period of time with very minimal resources combined with the very small faith of an insignificant couple of first generation believers. To be sure even the faith was a gift of his grace.
When we began LBM in early 2004 we started from scratch. We had no partnerships, no connections in Brazil, and no money. The first donation was literally a $50 donation from our family. In the less than 7 and a half years that followed and with total resources of $493,000 the following has been accomplished.
As you can see the Lord has blessed exceedingly abundantly and much has been accomplished with minimal resources. One of the primary reasons we accomplished so much in Brazil is because the Lord gave our family the grace to endure severe financial hardship in order to see his will done in and through us. What a blessing it is now to look back and see the fruit of those difficult times. By his grace we will continue to trust the Lord to do great and mighty things for his glory and the good of his kingdom.