🇺🇸 OUTREACH | TEAM MINNCHI! FALL DTS 2023

Em Missão Nay Camargos
1 de mar. de 2024
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Atualizado: 2 de mar. de 2024

Hey, My big Family!!

After two intense months leading a team to Outreach for the Discipleship Training School (DTS) from YWAM Salem base, in Minneapolis and Chicago here in the United States, I write to tell you a little about what we experienced in this time dedicated to making the name of our Lord Jesus Christ known in this Nation!

This post is just a resume of what we did there during our time on mission, with the sweet reminder that "You are also part of it all!", filled with gratitude for all the prayers and support we received, which were undoubtedly fundamental for our team to further fulfill this calling. (Excited!?)

In that time we served and were served, loved and were loved, prayed and received prayer, taught and were taught, we were filled with what God asked us to take and we came back overflowing with much more, after all it is impossible to give ourselves totally to what God called us to do and we return with nothing, right?!

Alongside an international team (Bahamas, Haiti, United States, Iran and Brazil), we impact and have been impacted by many other nations practically everywhere we put our feet. We connected with people who had already heard about the Gospel and those who received it as new.

We started with the BASIC and essential part of our journey, being welcomed with a 12-hour prayer, worship and fasting organized by the YWAM Minneapolis team. We interceded and cried out for everything that the Holy Spirit placed in our hearts, between praise and intense worship, being led by what God wanted to do in that place. It was impossible to enter that room without feeling or being overcome by the presence of God!

In these two cities we found a gigantic diversity of ministries and in all of them the name of JESUS is presented, bringing hope of a new life to our brothers/sisters:

who live on the streets, with prayers and encouragement delivered along with a plate of food and a hot drink to warm them from the intense cold that winter brings;

who are immigrants and refugees (mostly Latinos) giving them a community and church that welcomes them in their native language, delivering basic food baskets weekly and providing the necessary support for their initial adaptation in this nation;

women: who are in a situation of drug/alcohol addiction or are dancers at the nightclubs - offering a place where they can receive counseling, be cared for and showing that they not only have a place where they belong, but also that they are loved by our Creator;

The best thing about all this is seeing that all our connections and open doors to ministries were through acts of service, just as Jesus did and taught us, which led us to meet the most basic and immediate needs of people in this time:

with a table set for breakfast or dinner and the opportunity to teach about God's word with Bible Studies;

with a room where police officers can come in to have a coffee and have some time to rest, without being rejected by the community where they work;

through English or even cooking classes that train people who are looking for a better job opportunity to support their families;

helping immigrant children and young people with their homeworks, as one of the ways to present the word of God to them.

even in a season of intense cold (very different from what we were used to), we took many prayer walks leaving marks of love and hope in the streets, filled with the freedom that only the light of the Gospel brings.

We participated in the implementation of a new Latin Church, Viña La Fuente - in Minneapolis, led by the couple of pastors Mali & Fernando and their family who came from Colombia to serve the community of immigrants and refugees in that nation. The doors of the church opened in October/2023 and every Sunday that we were there, we saw together the firming of its roots and its growth.

We also had the privilege of seeing ordinary homes, full of ordinary people living something extraordinary simply by opening themselves up to living God's dreams in their lives and in the community to which they belong.

Given cultural and even religious diversity, we were able to talk about the Gospel to people who grew up and live their lives with beliefs very different from ours, but who today want to open up to hearing about Jesus.

At this time, I also noticed God adjusting my vision to see people who carry some hurt that were caused by the church and the Christian community they belonged to in the past and who because of this stopped believing in the Love of God. The parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) stood out to me in every encounter that God allowed me to have with his sons and daughters who had not returned home - yet!

It's impossible to write about all this and not feel the desire to be back in these most multicultural cities I've ever known!

Without a doubt we did a lot, but the opportunities are so many that it left us wanting to do much more, because indeed "The Harvest is great!" and, more seeds were planted! So we pray and ask that you also help us in prayer, asking that "the seeds fell on good soil" (Matthew 13:8) that it may yield a good harvest and "Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." (Luke 10:2) so that the entire harvest be accomplished.

Well, Family... I end this brief resume here, knowing that, in fact, with all the good things we experienced, by the grace of the Lord, over these two months, it would be possible to write an entire book, but for now we just have the introduction. :) (who knows, maybe the book will come out in the near future hahaha).

Last but not least, I THANK YOU immensely to EVERYONE who in some way supported and encouraged us to persist in this mission, which left me with even more certainty that our OBEDIENCE can making a supernatural move happen here on earth and the name of God be Glorified!

Praise be to the Lord, who chose us, called us and anointed us to be his servants (Luke 4:18-19), bringing hope and loving one another, just as Jesus loved us, for by this everyone will know that we are his disciples.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor, has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

Luke 4:18-19

Photos and Links with more information about the ministries we connect and serve are below: