Expanding Ron & Debby McKeon's Ministry Reach in Brazil

Help expand our ministry reach

in Brazil with your financial support and prayers.

The Society of Anglican Missionaries & Senders (SAMS) is our missionary sending agency. SAMS establishes our budget, files and pays our payroll taxes, provides benefits and a salary.

We must raise all of our own financial support in order for

SAMS to do all of the above to keep us on the mission field

in Brazil.

"Please join with us in our efforts to equip church leadership in Biblical principles to impact their actions and life patterns; to inspire the Church in Brazil for generations to come."

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Ron & Debby start a new House of Peace

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"I took this as a testimony to the power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of two men who just a short time ago could not understand a word the other was saying. Now we are both Making Disciples Who Make Disciples for the Glory of God's purposes for His Creation."

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Inspiring Leadership in Brazil and Equipping Generations to Come

Valdomiro and Ron partners in Making Disciples Who Make Disciples.

Discipleship is a way through which God is allowing us to influence and equip leaders in the Church in Brazil. It is the process of making disciples who make disciples. Your financial support is vital to allow our mission here in Brazil to continue and flourish. Please join with us in our efforts to equip church leadership in Biblical principles to impact their actions and life patterns; to inspire the Church in Brazil for generations to come.

October 2017 was our two year anniversary of residence in Brazil.

Debby & the Bread of Life cooking team.

To recap our first year in 2016, several events and ongoing ministries sprang up in our congregation;

Bread of Life ministry, every second and fourth Friday we serve 200 bowls of hearty soup and bread,

One on one Weekly Discipleship,

Neighborhood Cell Groups for sharing God's word and mutual support,

Roadside Prayer Blitz, and Beach Clean-up Day.

During our 2nd year in Brazil we focused on:

Those receiving discipleship began discipling others, who in turn disciple others.

Bread of Life ministry brought soup and bread into another neighborhood two miles away, serving up more than 350 servings of soup every second and forth Friday in two neighborhoods. That's a lot of vegetable and meat chopping happening twice a month!

Expanding the Bread of Life soup ministry.

Neighborhood cell groups sponsored a "House of Peace", in a home with a host willing to invite their neighbors and friends for 7 weekly lessons to introduce the love of God expressed through His Son, our Savior Jesus Christ to those desiring to hear God's Word in a familiar environment.

Making Disciples that Make Disciples in Brazil

This is what Ron has to say about discipleship in Brazil:

I have been meeting with Valdomiro on a weekly basis for one hour for most of the past year. This relationship is directly inspired by Matthew 28:19-20, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations..."

Valdomiro does not speak English. We recently began reading Alister McGrath's Mere Apologetics. In Portuguese the title is Apologetica pura & simples. Simply put by McGrath, "Apologetics is about persuading people there is a door to another world - a door that perhaps they never realized existed. Evangelism is about helping people to open that door and enter in to the world that lies beyond."

When Valdomiro and I meet for discipleship we spend time discussing the implications of what we are reading for God's purpose for our lives through the lens of Scripture. We also spend time discussing how our week is going and the thanksgivings, challenges and opportunities for growth into the likeness of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Savior, and Friend. We also catch up on the thanksgivings, challenges, and opportunities Valdomiro is experiencing in his discipleship of other men in our parish.

This is my thanksgiving for discipleship in Brazil; I consider myself to be a novice with the Portuguese language and Valdomiro does not speak English. Our conversation in Portuguese at times can be both intense and full of emotion, and sometimes Valdomiro needs to restate his thought for me using simpler words. Valdomiro is also patient with me and calmly corrects my numerous grammatical and pronunciation errors especially when I rush my delivery and, for example, I'm talking in the future tense when I should be talking in the past tense.

A few weeks ago Valdomiro asked me if we could increase our discipleship time from one hour per week to two hours per week due to the intensity of the content in Alister McGrath's book so we do not miss out on the other aspects of our time together. Of course I said yes and praising the Lord, I almost fell off my chair!

I took this as a testimony to the power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of two men who just a short time ago could not understand a word the other was saying. Now we are both Making Disciples Who Make Disciples for the Glory of God's purposes for His Creation.

Please join in our efforts by making a financial gift to grow our ministry of equipping church leadership with

Biblical principles that impact their actions and life patterns; to inspire the Church in Brazil for generations

to come.

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With warmest regards,
Ron and Debby McKeon
SAMS-USA Missionaries in Brazil

SAMS USA | | debbymckeon@sams-usa.org | P.O. Box 399
Ambridge, PA 15003