For a Better Communication

Hello, my dear friends in Norway. I created this blog to help us communicate. There are three different local churches in Norway we keep in touch. Bogafjell, By Menigheten and Boe Menigheten. The idea is to send news and pictures trough this blog so that you may know everything about the missionary project in São José do Rio Preto - SP, Brazil. 

To make it easier, I'm going to post everything in English. It is possible to translate the texts to Norwegian through the Google translator.

About us

During the first two weeks of April, Gracielli and I took two weeks vacation and went to Rio Grande do Sul, to spend some days with my parents and relatives. That was a blessing.

Gracielli’s mother was involved in a car accident and needed help in Campo Grande, 600km away from Rio Preto. We had to visit her in the hospital and help her dealing with all the insurance and heath bureaucracy. She need a surgery to implant a prosthesis replacing the head of the femur. After one week at the Hospital, she is home and recovering. Pray for her!

About the missionary work

Our church is going through a blessed time now. Recently we had a special weekend called "A Meeting with God". Those who participated in this weekend were very impacted by God.

Some deep subjects were dealt during the weekend, such as forgiveness and others related to personal issues. The goal is to meet God and be freed from anything that stop us from being the kind of person God want us to be. God want to save us not just from hell, but he want to purify us and teach us how to win against the world, the devil and our sinful nature. Many people say they are Christians, but they don’t live the abundant live Jesus had promised to us. This is not about being happy only. This is about living God’s purpose for our lives. “A Meeting with God” is a powerful tool for our church.

Our plan is to invite people to participate in this weekend and welcome them in church through a close discipleship.

Testimony

We have a testimony to share with you. Natalia(15) is Maristela’s(40) doughter. Maristela is part of our church since five years ago. During this time she struggled a lot trying to make her family, her husband and three children (8, 15 and 20) come to church. Maristela managed to bring Natalia to the weekend. Both Maristela and Natalia had a great experience with God. They were very touched during the preaching and prayer moments.

Now, after more than two weeks, Maristela says that Natalia has been a wonderful obedient daughter, like never before. She stopped fighting with her little brother. She was not talking to her older sister for two months and now they are very good friends again. She uses to pray during the mornings and before sleeping. She is now starting a discipleship walk with us to grow spiritually.

Maristela also has changed. Before becoming Christian, she used to participate in a spiritism group together with her husband. When she became Christian, she started to struggle, because of the resistance coming from her husband, but specially a spiritual resistance. The “Meeting with God” helped Marsitela to win this spiritual war. She feels totally free from any link from the spiritism time and she understands that she is more than winner in Christ.

Day-by-day, Maristela conquers her family to Jesus. Praying on her knees and seeking God.

There would be more testimonies and I believe there will be more soon. The next “Meeting with God” is going to be on June 12^th and 13^th.

New Impulse

God is giving a new great impulse in the missionary work in Rio Preto. It is so wonderful when you see God moving and changing lives. I see some of my dreams being realized now. I always dreamed about a powerful church, where people get changed. That’s what I need. God knows how frustrated I was about the ministry. But he has changed me too.

Thank you for all the support you have gave to us! 

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In Christ,

Missionario Tiago Seilert