Why does Brazil need more churches?
Brazil is the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of approximately 220 million people. A country the size of a continent, it harbors many different cultures. Brazil is home to the world’s largest forest and also the fourth most populous city in the world, São Paulo. It is also estimated that the indigenous population in Brazil currently stands at 1.3 million people. Beyond its diversity, we face some other challenges in Brazil…
In the last census in 2010, the figures showed that 23% of the Brazilian population identified as evangelical, but what we see is an exponential growth of prosperity theology and churches not centered on the gospel. At the same time, Brazil is a country with economic and religious freedom, placing us in the second position among countries sending the most missionaries to other nations, just behind the United States.
Acts 29 in Brazil began affiliating churches in 2016, and we are approaching the end of 2023 with approximately 40 partner churches in our network, and dozens of other churches in the evaluation process.
Brazil needs more gospel-centered churches, not just to reach our own country but also because we understand that, as the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, we can be instrumental in training planters and establishing new churches in other Portuguese-speaking countries, such as: Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste.
We would like to invite you to cooperate with us in this great challenge.
