Xingu Mission - Motorcycle Ministry Report for 2006
 

In 2001, we honored by the partnership of CMA of Canada through the expertise of Missionary Ventures Canada in providing two Brazilian pastors with their motorcycle licenses & also motorcycles for their ministries. Those motorcycles have both been used for about 55,000 km. Here is a brief summary of their use.

Honda XR200 (White) - This bike was originally bought for use by the Brazilian pastor of our Vitoria church, Pr Valdinho. He used the motorcycle for about three years to help grow his church from about 15 people to 150 people over the course of several years. The motorcycle was also used for travel to a few outlying communities for evangelistic outreaches. When the pastor moved on from Vitoria to work in Porto de Moz, the bike was left for use by the Altamira Central church. The Altamira church makes the bike available for area Brazilian pastors & lay leaders to use when they are involved in going out to communities surrounding Altamira. The motorcycle is used to visit many of villages & communities surrounding Altamira. It has been vital in helping to start do planting and overseeing churches in more than a dozen different communities.

Honda XR200 (Red) - This bike was used by Pr Clenildo for several years to start outreaches in the Assurini region of Altamira. It has been vital in the life of the local Altamira church, as well as helping to oversee churches here in Altamira as well as out in the bush. These two motorbikes are often used together because of our team concept of working together. The bike is used by a number of different Brazilian lay leaders & pastors to provide discipleship and oversight to these churches.

It is clear that these two motorcyles together have provided catalyst for planting 9 churches in the Altamira region as well as providing oversight to another 7 churches that had been established by other means... the motorcycles simplified the oversight process. The value added to the ministry is immense and the lives have been touched by this ministry that otherwise would not have heard the story of Jesus and His sacrifice for their lives.