Brazil Programs and Projects

Education

Central Western Lay Missionary Training Center, Cuiaba, Mato Grosso
The Central Western Lay Missionary Training Center is a fruit of the joint effort between the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Inaugurated in 1996, the Center offers a four-year program of Bible, Evangelism and Mission Studies for non-ordained lay missionaries. It has 47 students, 6 of whom are from other South American countries. [Read more]

Fortaleza Theological Seminary
Founded in 1986 by the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil (IPIB), the seminary trains pastors and lay leadership through programs in theology, mission studies and church music. [Read more]

Evangelism

Brazil Frontier Mission
The PC(USA), along with the Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship, is working with the Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil to nurture its vision to reach unreached people groups, beginning in the Amazon region. [Read more]

Other evangelism efforts in Brazil
Include work with national churches in new church development, rural evangelism and church planting, urban evangelism and a training center for evangelists and missionaries. [Read more]

Self-Development

For the next three years (beginning in 2007) Self-Development of People is engaging in a new strategy for entering into partnership with communities of economically poor, oppressed and disadvantaged people outside of the United States. The program will establish (and or continue) partnerships with six intermediaries, one of them the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (C.E.S.E.) in Brazil. In partnership with Self-Development of People, this organization allocates resources throughout Brazil.