Report on Medical Mission to Brazil

Rio de Janiero; September 3-13, 2004

I am very pleased to have been a member of this medical evangelism team from my home church, First Baptist Church of Sevierville, Tennessee.

The 27-members consisted of doctors, physicians' assistants, nurses, technicians, assistants, evangelists as well as people from all kinds of occupations.

We set up in a two-room church recently started in Place de Mare, which many say is the most violent neighborhood in Rio de Janiero. The cramped quarters were divided into triage, general practice, pediatrics, eyeglasses, flouride treatments, and a pharmacy.

People began to line up to get in the clinic at 3 a.m.

Ray and Sharon Fairchild, missionaries to Brazil for 22 years, led the clinic. Each day began as Sharon led us in prayer before patients began to stream in for treatment. All through the day, all throughout the rooms, The Holy Spirit moved in mighty demonstrations of HIs power. Jesus Christ was constantly being shared by everyone working to treat patients, from doctors to evangelists to pharmacists to nurses to those fitting people for eyeglasses to those giving flouride treatments to hundreds of children by brushing their teeth for them.

Although there was a specific team who specifically focused on personal evangelism, doctors and nurses and assistants saw God save people's souls as well as treat their physical bodies.

 

The language of Brazil is Portugese, and of course we all only spoke English.

Our most prized team members were the excellent Christ-like Brazillian interpreters who were our ears and mouths. Without them, we could have done almost nothing to accomplish our goals.
Thank God for these dedicated, hard-working Brazillian brothers and sisters in Christ...we came to truly love them for the way they carried out their role on the team.

 

These four young men are pictured as they made the decision to turn from their sin and to give their lives to Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.


 

My interpreter, Rafael (center) and I spent an hour presenting the truths of the Gospel with this woman. Finally she made the decison of her lifetime, repenting of her sin and giving her all to Jesus Christ.


 

Pray for this man...he rejected Jesus.


 

 

PLEASE ACCEPT MY SINCERE THANKFULNESS TO YOU FOR THE WAY YOU SUPPORTED ME IN THIS MISSION TO "GO PREACH" THE GOOD NEWS TO ALL THE WORLD!

 

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS GOD SENDING ME NEXT??? INDIA...

 

 

Mark Martin
PO Box 1161
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
37868
USA
GoPreach@webtv.net

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