How God has called us to this missionary work l PART 05

EVANGELISTIC SUPPORT PROGRAM

Yesterday I wrote that the Lord Jesus spoke audibly in my room on the issue of support. I already told about this experience I had with the Lord and many people say that it is not correct, that God does not speak like that, that it is unbiblical to listen to something, that God does not say anything to anyone anymore, because all HE had to speaking is already in the bible and other things. And it is because of thoughts that are so far from biblical reality that the Christian life is just another dead, lifeless religion and is nothing more than a tradition of visiting a beautiful temple on Sundays.

Ministerial service is more of a job where I bounce between being a doctor, a dentist, a salesman and being a pastor. Professionals in religion are the ones who say how God should speak to someone and who lock God up in their little theological boxes.

Well, after God gave me that word I had to say something to my wife. That day I had no money to buy food. We had money for lunch and dinner that day, but not for the next day. I arrived in the backyard of my house and saw my wife hanging out the clothes on the clothesline. Mina had left a job in Tokyo, Japan, where she had a good monthly salary. She worked at a company making computer programs and on her free days she traveled to Australia, South Korea or came to South America to visit her relatives. Mina left everything to do missions, she married me and at the time we went to work in indigenous villages in Paraguay and now we are in Bolivia with minimal resources for food.

When I told Mina about what the Lord Jesus had told me, about the tracts, the support of the evangelists, then she looked at me and said: "Peniel, how are we going to do this work? We don't even have to eat, bring the little of material from São Paulo is being very difficult and who will support a work like this?" I said I didn't know, but I was just saying what the Lord Jesus had said.

I was walking away from Mina as she continued putting the clothes on the line, then the Spirit of God gave me a word and I said to my wife, "The Lord Jesus will bring supporters into this house so that we know that HE is at the forefront of this missionary work." A few days later a sister wife of a military man from Brazil came to our house. She came to do some business in Santa Cruz and was an acquaintance of my parents and when she found out that I was in Santa Cruz de la Sierra she picked us up, as she wanted to stay at the house of someone she knew. When she was leaving my house to travel to Brazil she told us that she would be helping our mission project.

Then a pastor from Brazil came to buy clothes in Bolivia and also stayed at our house. He went out with us several times to evangelize and when he was about to return to Brazil he also said that he would be helping our work financially. In each situation we saw the hand of God fulfilling the word that HE himself had given us. And several other brothers came to our house and started to help us financially.

PHOTO: Mina and I in the central square of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

We continued to bring materials from Sao Paulo and we did evangelistic work throughout Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The number of evangelists who knocked on our door asking for material for their work grew more and more every day. I started to order larger quantities from São Paulo, I had to involve more people and the trips to the border region with Brazil to bring the boxes with the printed materials became constant. The Bolivian law allows us small amounts of printed materials, so I had to drive around town a lot on the Brazilian side and move on to Bolivia. Then he put the boxes on a conveyor to arrive in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

In Bolivia there are many stoppages at the bus stations because of political problems. You get on the bus, but you don't know if you will arrive at the scheduled time, as there may be a stoppage on the road. Many times I stayed on the road without being able to continue the trip because of the stoppages. We were without water, without food until the leaders of the roadblocks decided to release the buses. But we kept doing the work, because we had the understanding that the work belongs to the Lord Jesus.

One day I met a Canadian missionary who was working with the same printed materials I was bringing from São Paulo. But his aim was to reach the children of the rural schools. I spoke with the mission leaders who are in the United States about sending materials for our work through the mission in Bolivia that that missionary was managing. The doors were opened and now we received between 2 tons and 5 tons of printed material directly in Bolivia.

PHOTO: Here we are with one of the first materials brought to Bolivia through the mission of our Canadian friend.

We started to receive more materials and the number of evangelists grew more and more every day. I started to travel to other regions of Bolivia, we did street evangelism and God placed more evangelists for us to support. From Santa Cruz de la Sierra we started sending to La Paz, Cochabamba, the border with Peru, the border region with Argentina, the border with Brazil and every day more and more the Lord Jesus sent more evangelists and we supported them without charging a single dollar. from anyone for the materials.

All printed material arrived free of charge in the hands of the evangelists, but it goes without saying that every move we made had a cost. We started to receive quantities as large as 15 tons of evangelistic materials. We had to store, look for means of distribution, collect information from the supported evangelists, make packages to send in the carrier and we had to look for the financial resources to pay each cost that arose.

So the missionary work supporting the evangelists grew, but our money to support all the work did not. We started praying for an open door. We spoke to church leaders, mission secretaries, mission agency leaders, but no one wanted to support us financially. So we went to pray to the Lord Jesus for a solution for the maintenance of the missionary work that he himself had entrusted in our hands.

Then one day in prayer the Lord Jesus tells me to involve his people. The Lord Jesus told me: "Give the opportunity for my people to participate in this evangelistic work." So we started pitching the project not just to the leaders, but to anyone who came into contact with us. We started the Participation Program where people who followed our project could participate with the value that God put in their hearts, intercede for the work we did and present the missionary work to others who also love evangelistic work.

We asked those who wanted to participate to put a value on the Lord Jesus, make a commitment to help financially for a year, pray for the work, the barriers, the objectives of the work, be a real intercessor and also introduce others to missionary work. During this period, the missionary institutions withdrew their aid, as they believed that the missions that sent us tons of material were also paying us, but we did not receive and until today we do not receive any dollar from these institutions, but all maintenance of the work was paid with money from the people we involved.

But while the institutions stopped helping God raised a real army to help financially and pray for us.

I will finish here. I will try to summarize as much as possible and I will try to finish this whole testimony in the email that I will send tomorrow - If the Lord Jesus allows us.

God bless you

ABOUT THE VIDEO:
The video above I make a trip to La Paz. In the video I show a little of the blockades in Bolivia and what we often go through to carry out the evangelistic work. The purpose of my trip was to organize a place in the city of La Paz to start the Support Point. Currently, the Support Point of La Paz is one of the most active points serving the high region of Bolivia, as well as the region of Peru

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