Monday, December 13, 2010

Brazil Learning Technologies


More than 50 years ago God called some MAF pioneers to serve within the country of Brazil.

Brazil is a 200 million people country where main language is Portuguese, which is the 5th worldwide more spoken one.
Around two years ago some conversations with key Brazilian leaders started in order to dream, think and pray about the possibility of starting Learning Technologies ministry in Brazil.

Now, we have seen the Lord working in miraculous ways allowing us to serve and visit that beautiful country to develop technology and education projects.
One year ago we started some consulting meetings with the leadership of SETIEL seminary which is located in Curitiba and Sao Paulo.
SETIEL has been training pastors and leaders all over Brazil, sending well trained professors to every corner in the geography of the country.
They face the limitations in relation to time, distance, available professors, resources and more.

The consulting phase turned some months ago into training as part of a new project for us to assist them in the design, planning and developing of an advance level training for pastors and leaders using a distance education model. The work has been growing so fast to the point of starting some other projects, like the Oral Strategies workshop last October in Samtarem Do Para.

Besides that we are in close communication with our associate ministry there called Asas de Socorro (Annapolis) to start and develop a on site Learning Technologies ministry in Brazil.

We already have a tremendous network of organizations and we have been providing consulting and assistance to them.
Please pray for Brazil. We already have a family in our team who most likely will be the first LT family moving to Brazil soon. Pray please for all the resources we need there.

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