The XM ChallengeBrazil Novo Church Planting – The XM Challenge https://www.rickbergen.net Help Plant 1,000 Churches Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:01:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 169531157 Brazil Novo Church Planting https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=2256 https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=2256#respond Sat, 24 Jun 2023 14:08:33 +0000 Rick Bergen https://www.rickbergen.net/?p=2256 1. In 1994, Northview Church in Abbotsford sent a team to come and help in Brazil. We hosted them, and they did some work projects and special services. The pastor of the small church we attended was Timoteo. He was from a farming and fishing community in the Amazon Basin. The tiny church had a few benches that didn’t lean back. The Northview team brought some musical instruments, which they left with the church.

2. In 2022, our daughter Bella and her husband Tim moved to the basement suite of Ditch and Janice, one of the guys we met from that Northview outreach. We remain connected to several people from that team almost 30 years ago.

3. Pastor Timoteo moved to Brasil Novo, a small city on the Transamazon Highway, because the previous pastor, Ademir, died in the pandemic.

4. This week, Timoteo sent me photos of the church they are planting out of Brasil Novo.

5. Seeing local people raising resources and helping build their own church building feels right to me. When they build their own church congregations develop muscle memory to pray, act, and do things with resources they get from Him. It’s freeing.

Timoteo was our pastor in 1994, and we’re still working together.
He is now the pastor of the Brasil Novo church, about nine hours East of us,
and planting churches in the surrounding region.

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