Stories from Brazil

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Connor is pictured here on the far left.

Hi, my name is Connor and I recently participated in the visioning trip to Brazil with Multiply.

One thing that I don’t think I’ll ever forget is a man we met who was a church planter in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. He told us his life story - a heart breaking story of being abandoned as a baby because he was sick and his family didn’t want him, but someone took him in and raised him teaching him about God and what it meant to be a follower of Christ.

As he grew up he felt the call to be a church planter and together with his wife he sold his belongings in Brazil and moved to Mozambique. With very little money he started his ministry going to villages and sharing the gospel.

Through his evangelism he planted one church and then another and another, soon he had planted 250 churches across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Currently he is back in Brazil hoping to find people to come with him to help baptize hundreds maybe thousands of people waiting for him at his churches.

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