Dear Praying and Supporting Friends,
Ministry News
March was our missions conference. God moved and we are now able to take on another missionary family. We are now able to support three missionary families or groups. We praise the Lord that our people are growing in their faith.
Recently Fabio has begun coming to our mid-week services. He was saved as a young man and has been looking for a church since moving to our city. Pray that Fabio will start coming regularly. Pray that his family will start coming to church as well.
God has opened the door in an amazing way for us home and church to move to the same location. We have had problems with serious water infiltration at church. In the nursery, we basically have a waterfall now. Obviously, this has been a problem with the services. We prayed and prayed and God has opened the door for a new location. God worked a miracle and touched the heart of the owner of the new building to do $10,000 of remodeling after we looked at the building the first time. This makes the building move in ready. This new location has room for our church to grow and is only 2 kilometers from our present location. We now will have a nursery and a Sunday school space. There is even a 10 car parking area in the basement, which helps us to be in government regulations for churches. We will begin moving in the month of June. Please note the new address for both our church and home is :
Bryan and Rebekah Johnson or Igreja Batista Compaixão
R. Joana Angélica, 415 – Barcelona
São Caetano do Sul – SP
09551-050
We just returned from a conference in our countries capital, Brasilia. It was a creation conference. The conference went very well and we were able to strengthen the faith of fellow Christians. Pray for the church there in Brasilia to continue to grow in God’s knowledge and for more souls to be saved there in the capital. One man, whose mother faithfully attends the church there, called the Pastor Ricardo at five in the morning after our Saturday night lessons to say that God had really been working on him all week. This man had asked a lot of questions after the service and he said that after waking up at 3 in the morning he finally went into his mother’s room and asked her to share the gospel with him again. He said he got saved and wanted to do right from now on. Many have worked with this man over the years and we rejoice that he decided to accept Christ while we were there.
Sometimes, missions is about planting a seed and watering. Sometimes it is another who is able to show them the plan. Recently, we received word that the husband of Virginia, who was a member of our former church in Parque Bristol, has accepted God as his Saviour. This is a great blessing. We had witnessed to him various times and tried our best to show him the love of God. We rejoice that through the ministry of another pastor he has finally accepted Christ as his Saviour!
Family News
Our sons are doing well at Bible college. Lee is touring this summer for the college. We praise the Lord that they are willing to serve God. We are doing well here in Brazil. We are grateful that God has given us fairly good health in the last year so that we can continue to serve him.
In His Service,
Bryan and Rebekah Johnson
