04/25/2026
During our recent trip to 🇧🇷 for a family wedding, we had the opportunity to visit which is a (Youth With A Mission) base. The base was instrumental in my wife’s early Christian life but sadly had fallen into disrepair over the years. There are now a few missionary families that are volunteering to rebuild the mission and the men and women are working tirelessly to clean, fix and restore the sprawling campus’s infrastructure. We were given an in-depth tour of the campus by Nicholas who, with his wife and son, are missionaries from Colombia and also Rodney and his wife who is Brazilian (see picture of Nicholas & son with Rodney in the apartment). I wanted to share this experience with everyone as it was pretty moving to see these families working so hard and trusting God for their daily bread. As we move in our daily lives we are bombarded by news, distractions and the pace of life, but just like a walk in the forest if you stop and listen to nature and lift a leafy there is so much going on around us! A city is no different, many times the places we drive by hide amazing stories and people making an impact. In the case of there is hard work being done and a huge impact that doesn’t require government money or some small % of public funds that arrives after political grift, no just a handful of families called by God to rebuild a campus and at the same time rebuild families and hearts!
Unfortunately there are no organizations supporting these people yet so they depend individually on support but hopefully in the future I can share some links to anyone that feels led to help in the mission. It’s also on my heart to lead a work trip to help with some of the tasks which would help immensely and also change lives here in the USA.
Will