Ministry Finance Administrator in Brazil
Do you have professional accountancy experience, and a heart for mission?
Come to administer the finances of one of our Brazilian teams serving in the northwest, enabling them to focus on their outreach and church planting work.
Be an administrative support with any logistical challenges they face. Pray with the teams on the ground to see spiritual change happen within communities.
Qualities & Gifts Sought
You have a qualification in finance, and are confident to balance the accounts and produce reports.
You have a love for the Lord Jesus and enjoy sharing your faith.
You can speak Portuguese and are willing to learn local languages too.
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About Brazil
Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil) is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
At 8.5 million square kilometers (3.2 million square miles) and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous. The capital is Brasília, and the most populated city is São Paulo.
Urban areas concentrate 84.35% of the population, and the Southeast region is the most populated one, with over 80 million inhabitants.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 kilometers (4,655 mi). It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47.3% of the continent's land area.
Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection.
Brazil's economy is the world's eighth-largest. Until 2010 Brazil had one of the world's fastest growing major economies. It has been characterised as a potential superpower. One of the world's major breadbaskets, Brazil has also been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years.
Brazilian cuisine varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's varying mix of indigenous and immigrant populations. A typical meal consists mostly of rice and beans with beef, salad, french fries and a fried egg. Often, it's mixed with cassava flour (farofa). The national beverage is coffee!
[Read more about Brazil on Wikipedia]
Brazil has 309 people groups and 30 of these are considered unreached - these 30 people groups have yet to hear the good news about of Jesus.
89.5% are professing Christians, and of those, 24.7% call themselves Evangelical.
[Source: Joshua Project]
Pray with us for this land, for:
The challenges of economic corruption and crimePoverty which still effects tens of millions
The Catholic Church
Brazil’s unreached people groups
The indigenous peoples of Brazil
[Operation World print edition, 2010]
You can also pray online for Brazil with Operation World
WEC in Brazil
WEC has been in Brazil since 1922, and WEC’s first branch outside Africa was established in 1923 called ‘The Heart of Amazonia Mission’.
Today, WEC Brazil's vision is the evangelization of all unreached people groups in partnership with Brazilian churches.
'We work in partnership with Brazilian churches in order to send out missionaries who are well prepared, as well as care for them and their families, so that they might have an effective and long-lasting ministry among unreached peoples. We also have teams reaching out to indigenous peoples in Brazil.'
WEC established a Missionary Training College in Minas Gerais to train Portuguese-speaking missionaries to be sent out. Centro de Treinamento e Estudos Transculturais is now based at the WEC Centre in Belo Horizonte.
Read in Portuguese about WEC Brasil.
More about what WEC is doing in the Americas here.