Tag: Jesus

A Nice Zoom Meeting with Mr. Holway

We just had a very nice video conversation with Mr. Holway from the Sunset Church of Christ in Miami, FL. He is one of the ministers at the church there and has had a lot of experience as a missionary, both in an out of the country (over 12 years in Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Mr. Holway reasured us of our plans for South Florida and he confirmed many of our findings during our survey trip in November:

1) yes, there is a LARGE Brazilian community in the Deerfield/Boca area and it is not being reached by anybody.

2) he strongly believes that our plans and ideas for ministries would be very well received.

3) God has been making it clearer and clearer for us that South Florida may indeed be the place where He wants us to go and work as missionaries! Please, keep praying for us!

Over all, Mr. Holway seemed very happy and hopeful for us. We closed with a beautiful prayer said by him.

Thank you for your time and willingness to help us, Mr. Holway! God bless you! ??

Video Chat with Mr. Jim Holway (Sunset CoC)

Survey Trip to South Florida: Day 4

This is our fourth day surveying South Florida.

In the morning we had breakfast at Mauricio Yegros’ house and we got to meet his sweet wife, Kayla, and their beautiful kids, Nelson and Emily. Brothers Carlos Preciado and Luis Olavo were present as well. We had the chance to talk more about their experiences as missionaries here in the area and their insights were extremely valuable to us. Mauricio also showed us his church building (Coral Springs CoC).

In the afternoon we did some more exploring in the region and went to another Brazilian neighborhood, Sunshine Ranches.

In the evening we attended Bible class at West Broward CoC.

1st two pictures: breakfast at the Yegros
3rd picture: Bible class at the West Broward CoC

Survey Trip to South Florida: Day 2

Brazilian communities in Deerfield Beach, FL

Today (Monday, Nov 19) we drove around Deerfield Beach. There are at least two large Brazilian communities here and we wanted to check them out. We also talked to some residents and went to local Brazilian stores and supermarkets. People were all very friendly and seemed to be quite happy living here.

Survey Trip to South Florida: Day 1

We wanted to use our Thanksgiving break to take a survey trip here in South Florida. There’s a huge Brazilian community that lives in the Miami/Boca Raton area and we hope to be able to work with them after I graduate from Harding University.

We arrived in South Florida yesterday (Saturday, Nov 17). And today (Sunday) we attended church in the morning and had a meeting in the afternoon.

We attended church with our brothers and sisters at the Broadview Church of Christ in North Lauderdale. They have a nice bilingual congregation (Hispanics and Anglos). We had Bible study with our Latino brethren and then the whole church got together for a combined bilingual worship service. It was a very nice experience. After service, they invited us to stay and eat lunch with them.

In the afternoon we met with brothers Michael Osmann and Morris Legg, elders of the Hialeah Church of Christ in Hialeah. We had a good conversation and got to tell them more about us and our mission plans for the region. They were very excited and positive about what we had to say.

1st two photos: Broadview CoC
Last photo: meeting with Hialeah CoC elders

Living World Religions

 

This fall semester Maikon has been taking a class called Living World Religions with Dr. Monte Cox. This class is a study of world religions and aims at allowing students to understand followers of these faiths as well as providing ways on how to relate Christianity.

This weekend, our class took a field trip to Dallas (TX), where we visited seven different religious temples (Hindu, Theravada Buddhist, Muslim Mosque, Sikh, Jewish Synagogue, Bahai, and SGI Buddhist). It was a very humbling and enlightening experience. These are all people who, ignorantly, are trying their best to come to what they understand to be God. We have all been warmly welcomed into all places and we can’t help but love these people who are so desperately in need of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

At the end of each day we got together for a devotional and prayer. Several scriptures have been brought into the discussions we had, but, two of them spoke to me in a more meaningful way: Acts 17 (Paul in Athens) and Jesus’ words in John 14:6 “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

We ended our trip this morning, by attending worship service with our brothers and sisters in Christ at the Marsalis Avenue Church of Christ.

Four of the temples we saw this weekend: Hindu, Theravada Buddhist, Muslim Mosque, and Sikh.