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Dear Saints,

Praise the Lord for His move over the whole earth! Sara and I count it as a tremendous blessing to have been able to go and participate in the Lord's recovery in Brazil ! Undoubtedly, the Lord was able to move so much during our short time there as a direct result of all the intercessory prayer by all the saints. We appreciate the fellowship in the Body that enabled us to go, and for sure, the Lord has gained more in our being and written the saints there and their situation on our hearts.

There was an approximate total of 345 saints from 22 different countries that participated in the two cycles, which itself was a living testimony of the oneness in the Body of Christ. As most of you all know, we were divided into two camps, one for visiting the cities and localities in the northern part of Brazil and another for those in the southern part. Sara and I were with the camp in the south, so we first traveled to Sao Paulo to meet, pray, and coordinate with all the other saints who were in the south. We were further split up into teams to visit designated cities in order for as many saints and localities as possible to benefit from our coming to visit and enjoy fellowship with them. Our team, composed of five saints (us plus three from the FTTA) went to Campinas , Brazil . The church there has approximately 400 saints, of which only one family (The Brittes) and two college-age students were positive. Their burden for us coming there was to enter into their small vital group church life by having a corporate morning time each morning, eating together day by day, preaching the gospel together, and contacting the few positive saints in a nearby city called Sumaré by inviting them over or visiting them in their homes.

We were one with this family and just entered into their burden. During our stay with them, we visited 15 homes of precious saints some of whom had stopped meeting altogether due to the negative situation there and others who were still confused due to various lies and rumors spread about the saints who come from outside of Brazil . I am happy to share that every visit was positive, and some of the saints even began to meet again as a result of our visit. We had the definite realization that our coming to them was God's visitation with the whole Body. We also invited many of them to a Brazilian BBQ known as a "churrasco" at the summer home of the Brittes family on one of the weekends. Our time there culminated in a lot of fellowship centered around getting into the Word, being constituted with the truth, and enjoying the fellowship of the Body of Christ. During the week, the Brittes daughters and the two college-age brothers went with us to preach the gospel on the Unicamp campus. Even though classes were not in session, we found many students still on campus. We used the Mystery of Human Life tracts and the Rhema publication of the Gospel of John in Portuguese to speak the gospel of God to the ones we contacted. By the end of our trip, eight people were saved and one was baptized. The local saints testified how preaching the gospel with us was an experience that they had never had before, and we have to testify that it also revived and saved us too.

The local saints also felt to promote the new Recovery Version of the New Testament in Portuguese to the positive saints in the surrounding areas, so we found a neighborhood community center similar to a chapel to host a seminar on the Lord's Day evening. The week before it, we prayed and visited homes of the positive saints to personally invite them to come. This way proved to be quite profitable, since it gave us an opportunity to visit more new faces and have fellowship with them. Twenty-four of them ended up coming to the seminar. On the morning of that same Lord's Day, the brothers had planned a blending time with a few positive saints in another city about 45 minutes from Campinas , as well as, some scattered saints in other surrounding nearby cities. The time of fellowship was so encouraging for us all. Some even testified that our blending time reminded them and had the same "taste" of when they first touched the genuine church life back in the 1970's. Our time ended with a long love feast full of delicious Brazilian food in abundance. O how enjoyable it was to see all the hearts of the saints refreshed and encouraged by the fellowship!

At the conclusion of our time in Campinas , we joined all the other teams that went out from Sao Paulo at Nazare Paulista for a time of fellowship. At the same time, all the teams in the northern part of Brazil were doing the same as we were. The prayer and coordination were so sweet as the saints from cycle two arrived and joined in with us. The reports we heard touched our hearts and caused many to weep. For example, one brother from the FTTA had his appendix rupture while on the trip. This situation opened the way to contact one of the doctor brothers in Rio de Janeiro who was not fellowshipping with the positive saints. This brother performed the operation which definitely kept the sick brother from a much worse physical situation. Later he was actually questioned by some negative brothers as to why he helped this "American." But his response was precious: he responded that he had not helped an "American" but a "member of the Body of Christ." Saints on the other teams shared their experiences too, which altogethered resulted in thousands of scattered saints being freshly contacted and revived, hundreds receiving salvation from the gospel preaching and a few of whom were also baptized, and thousands of ministry publications were received by the saints. We heard testimony upon testimony of how everyone felt all of this was possible due to the prayers of the saints all over the world. Praise the Lord!

We want to encourage the saints to continue to pray, especially as the saints in cycle two are already going out to visit some of the same cities and even new cities. Pray for the young people who are returning home from this past weekend's young people's conference, for they are the future of the Lord's Recovery there and need to be captured by the Lord and the controlling vision of the age. In addition, pray for the churches and leading ones in the localities, for many still have no idea anything is wrong due to the blinding work of the enemy and an improper following of persons, instead of the apostle's teaching according to the genuine New Testament ministry. Unfortunately, there are only a few churches in which all the saints have completely turned back to this ministry. We know that the Lord is using this gospel move to work out His will in Brazil, though we do not yet know what all will be worked out. For sure, we need to pray earnestly for it to be done on the earth as it is in the heavens.

Furthermore, both the saints in Brazil and we were so happy to learn that another gospel move for Brazil and South America is being planned for January/Febuary, during which thousands of NT RcV will be given away. Please consider prayfully about participating in that time by going, praying for it, and giving toward it. We hope that eveyone's heart will be encouraged by our report and also stirred up afresh to love our Lord for everything He is to us and is doing for His Body.

In Him,
Brian Woodrome