Jose Morelos

There are 185 million people in Brazil. 20 million live in the Amazon basin. The Amazon basin is about 4,195 miles long, covering about 2,720,000 square miles in area, including its 15,000 tributaries and sub-tributaries (four of which are in excess of 1,000 miles long).

The only way to get to some places, and not have to spend hours or days on the river getting there, is by flying. We used this small plane to get to several sites in Brazil. By road or boat would have taken us one week. We did it all in one day.

The Amazon Basin is the largest river basin in the world. The area has 40,000 river and interior communities. 5,000 of these communities have evangelical presence

We were struck by the seriousness of this young men who lived in one of the river communities in the Amazon. He was 11 years old.

Given that the nature of the environment in northern Brazil is small communities made of families living alongside the rivers, the congregations of the churches tend to be smaller in comparison to land-based populations. Congregations, for example, of 30-50 believers are not uncommon and are significant, when the size of the community may be 500 people.

With Diego Trujillo, the leader of E-3 of Ecuador, a national component of the larger worldwide E-3 that focuses on Equipping the Church, Evangelizing and Establishing the Kingdom. We traveled to an area outside Guayaquil called “Los Angeles”, where a Baptist medical mission carries out its work. Many houses are here, albeit small by our standards, and growth seems to have momentum, evidenced by the many constructions and workers. A congregation here owns land on which they would like to build. They are holding services now each Sunday in a home where attendance is limited.