The Help That Is Willing to Go...

I have heard the plea, and I am committed in my heart to serving the Lord side by side with our brethren in Aracajú, Brazil in order to win as many lost souls to Christ as possible.

Randy Warzecha

Randy (38) currently resides Aracaju, Brazil. Randy has a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Lubbock Christian University with emphasis in Bible and Missions. His foreign experience includes short-term mission work in Haiti, Russia, Costa Rica, Mexico City, Salvador and Aracajú, Brazil. Randy is proficient in Spanish and has some knowledge of American Sign Language, Portuguese and Russian. He graduated from SIBI in May of 1999 and enrolled in the SIBI Advanced Mission's Program successfully completing these studies as of December 1999.

August 2007 Newsletter

"During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." (Acts 16:19)

A Plea for Help...
In 1996, Tim Brumfield was the last part of a mission team to leave Salvador, Brazil having established a growing church. During a business meeting nearing the time of Tim's departure from the field, the men of the church in Salvador wrote a letter making an urgent plea for workers to go to Aracajú in order to help the small struggling church.

The following is this letter translated into English:

To the Students of SIBI, Beloved brethren and comrades in the kingdom and in the spreading of the good news; in first place, we want to congratulate you for having accepted the calling of Jesus to the ministry of preaching of the Gospel.

It is through men like you that God has made His church grow and has brought salvation to the lost souls all over the world. The name of the Lord has been glorified with this work.

Here in Brazil, many great strong churches have been planted, some of them planted by men who have passed through this institute, such as the church in Salvador, Bahia and the church in Recife, Pernambuco. Still there is a vast field for the work in our country especially in the Northeast.

Aracajú is one of the only capital cities of the Northeast without a strong church yet. It is an important and a large city with wonderful receptivity to the Gospel. We only lack qualified men to preach.

For many reasons, we here in Salvador do not have conditions to do this work with the urgency and the efficiency it deserves, because we lack financial resources and qualified men who are ready to go there. We do, though, recognize the responsibility is ours. We have tried to do something, but have not been able to correspond to the need of that population.

The people of Aracajú are dying without salvation. Men and women whom god loves and for whom He sent His Son, are without direction, living in darkness, without salvation, and destitute of the knowledge of the love of God. We must help ("socorre-los") them with the truth that is in our hands. We must hear their cries for help, seen in the hopelessness in the eyes of those people who were created in the image of God. That filed shines white for the harvest, but there is no one to harvest. Those ears eagerly await to hear a message that will give them hope, but there is no one to preach. Brethren, we implore, if there is some possibility, form a missionary team to come preach in Aracajú. Paul and his companions received and answered the cry of the Macedonians given through a dream, having decided it to be a call from God. God no longer calls us through dreams, but has not ceased to call us to preach His Word. Let us continue to answer His calling.

The Men's Meeting of the church of Christ in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Elmo Saad, Antonio Silva, Idalicio Pereira, Jose Antonio, Daniel Carlos, Marcos Gomes, Ailton Ribeiro, Nilton Barretto

Not only has there been this written plea from the brethren in Salvador but also a plea from Senior Luiz, a retired older brother who is working with the small struggling church in Aracajú.