BRAZIL - CURITIBA - Pre-Planned Trips Available Year Around - individuals, couples, families
Jan - Dec 2024 | Merge
BRAZIL - CURITIBA - Pre-Planned Trips Available Year Around - individuals, couples, families
Trip #26866
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Trip #26866
BRAZIL - CURITIBA - Pre-Planned Trips Available Year Around - individuals, couples, families
Trip #26866
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What the Mission Trip Will Be Like
The Global Church is inviting you to participate in what God is doing in Curitiba in the state of Parana in Brazil. Our partner is ABASC, a Baptist Social Services organization lead by Brazilians. ABASC reaches out to a low-income area in the city of Curitiba and works with projects that create income, professional training and encouragement for people to desire to work. The goal is to equip and direct people toward employment, while sharing Christ with them. Projects include sewing classes, pet care workshops, and hair dressing. They also participate in sports and culture, working with people suffering from drug addiction, child daycare and tutoring. This trip is available for individuals, couples and families. The trip will be led, staffed and implemented by Brazilian Nationals.
Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian State of Parana, and has a population of about 2 million. It is located in the south of Brazil, a short-flight away from Sao Paulo.
The following are ministry opportunities in Curitiba:
– Sewing and tailoring workshops
– Pet Care/Veterinary Medicine
– Hair Dressing and cosmotology workshops
– Sports ministry
– Ministry to people with addictions
– Children's Ministry
– Educational Classes
Besides these options, there are more. The goal would be to find out your skills and interests and match them with the ongoing ministries of church partners in the area.
Trips are Mutually Designed with local partners utilizing your skills for ministry, learning from the Global Church, and building relationships with believers in the region. Individuals, couples and families are all invited to participate.
All trips are led, staffed and implemented by Brazilians and Latin American church leaders. Merge is an organization directed by a leadership team made up of non-American Global Church leaders from around the world. Once you fill out your registration form, and send in your deposit, the Merge Coach of Brazil, Jamerson Silveira, will contact you to develop an itinerary, ministry focus, and develop learning activities for you. Local nationals will be hired as interpreters, guides, ministry coaches, cooks, and construction supervisors (if needed).
Housing – Hotel
Food – Usually teams are fed two-American/Canadian-style uncooked meals each day, and one cooked Brazilian meal made by local cooks, although more Brazilian meals are possible. Purified water is also supplied for teams.
Flights – teams would fly to Curitiba, Brazil.
Ground Transportation – Merge will hire local bus companies to drive your team around Curitiba, and from the airport.
Learning – Learning activites with local church leaders and Merge staff will be designed into the itinerary.
Cultural Activities – Curitiba is filled with parks, a historical center and a vibrant downtown area.
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Relation of Opportunity to National Church and/or Long-term Goals
Merge is an organization directed and led by Global Church leaders, not North Americans. This gives Merge a Global lens in preparing and implementing short-term trips.
All Merge trips are directed, organized, staffed and led by the national church. All Merge custom trips are mutually designed by the national partner in communication with the short-term trip leader. Teams learn FROM the local church leaders and pastors. The local church/ministries are inviting teams from the United States and Canada to participate in what God is already doing in their communities. Teams PARTICIPATE in ongoing ministries within the community of the local church and organization. The goal is to do ministry WITH local partners, not FOR them.
Merge trips to Nicaragua are created by Brazilian nationals in partnership with the local churches in order to create an opportunity for the team and local congregation/community members to do ministry together, learn from each other, build relationships with each other, and further the ministry of the local churches.
Additional Trip Information
Mission Trip Offered By Merge
The GLOBAL CHURCH INVITING North Americans TO PARTICIPATE IN WHAT GOD IS DOING AROUND THE WORLD. Merge is directed by a team of Global Church leaders from five continents. All Merge trips are organized, led, and staffed by the Global Church. This gives Merge a UNIQUE non-North American perspective on short-term trips.
THE GLOBAL CHURCH INVITING – the initiative and leadership are from the Global Church, not the North American church to GO and lead
TO PARTICIPATE IN – the participation is active involvement and learning through what the Global Church is already doing. The focus is on involvement WITH, not doing FOR – active learning involves participation as well as reflection
WHAT GOD IS DOING AROUND THE WORLD – Missio Dei – God is actively involved around the world – North Americans can discover what God is already doing through followers of Christ around the world
OUTCOME – for participants from North America and the Global Church to be strengthened in their relationship with Jesus Christ, increase in passion for inter-cultural relationships, to implement God-inspired behaviors, and initiate new ministries and social change in their church and communities
Primary Values include:
LEARNING – God is doing amazing things through the global church. There is so much to learn about ministry and how God is working around the world. Come and learn!
RELATIONSHIPS – The kingdom of God is built on relationships, which are the key to a successful mission and ministry. Come and connect with followers of Jesus from around the world.
BRING IT HOME WITH YOU – When you return home, we want your vision and passion for your church, your community, and your own life in Christ to expand