NAME:
BROLM - Brazil
River of Life Ministries (Jeff, Monica, Roger and Isaac Fife)
MAILING
ADDRESS/EMAIL/WEBSITE/TELEPHONE:
P.O. Box 8262 – Gray – TN – 37615
E-mail: fife@brolm.org / rlm_fifes@hotmail.com / roger@brolm.org / isaac@brolm.org
http://brazilriveroflifeministries.blogspot.com/
In Brazil: 55-11-9-9511-2436 (WhatsApp)
FORWARDING AGENT/SENDING AGENCY/CONTACT
INFORMATION:
Chair: Mark Haga
E-Mail: markhaga@charter.net
Secretary: LeAnne Blackmore (423) 946-1332 E-mail: bmore@comcast.net
Treasurer: Amy Crawford (423) 426-2471 E-mail: amycrawford70@comcast.net
Trustee: Wilbur Reid E-Mail: wilburreid3@gmail.com
Trustee: Phil Roberts E-Mail: Philsburgh@gmail.com
MISSION FIELD AND PEOPLE GROUP:
Portuguese-Speaking World (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor,
Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, São Tome and Principe, Portugal, and USA)
MINISTRY MISSION STATEMENT:
Mission: Reach the Portuguese-Speaking world for Jesus
Christ so they can reach the rest of the world.
Vision: Reach the lost through Evangelism, Mentor and
Equip through Discipleship, Plant New Churches, Provide Assistance and Justice
where needed.
PLEASE SUBMIT A DOCTRINAL STATEMENT UPON WHICH YOUR MINISTRY IS
BASED. PLEASE BE SPECIFIC REGARDING YOUR
STANCE ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE AND THE ROLE OF HUMAN SEXUALITY IN THE CHURCH:
Our ministry will discuss our doctrinal statement on our annual meeting,
since we do not have one, however, being part of the Restoration Movement and
the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, our doctrinal statement will be
practically the same as Colonial Heights Christian Church has on its website (https://www.chcckpt.org/beliefs).
Regarding our stance on same sex marriage and the role of human
sexuality in the church, we will have a formal position after our annual board
meeting also, however, it will be based on the Nashville Statement, a
biblically-based evangelical statement centered on sex, marriage, and human
sexuality (nashville-statement).
As soon as our board meets and has these statements formally written we
will share them with you all.
IN THE PAST YEAR, NON-CHRISTIAN INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BECOME CHRISTIAN
INDIVIDUALS AS A RESULT OF THE WORK WITH WHICH GOD HAS ENTRUSTED BROLM: Over 300
WHAT WAS YOUR ORIGINAL TIME COMMITMENT TO THIS
MINISTRY? WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT TIME COMMITMENT TO THIS MINISTRY?
Our original commitment to this ministry is for
life and it continues to be for life.
Monica and I have been serving in the
Portuguese-Speaking World together for 34 years. BROLM been serving this same
people group since 2001.
HOW IS GOD CURRENTLY WORKING THROUGH YOUR MINISTRY AND WHAT WERE YOUR
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PAST YEAR?
GOD’S WORK THROUGH THE
MINISTRY OF THE PAST YEAR:
1. BROLM is accomplishing its goals through evangelism, discipleship
(personal discipleship and “Hands On” Bible College) and new
church plants, promoting social work and justice where needed.
2. BROLM promotes an average of 3 evangelistic outreaches per month
throughout the churches that BROLM has planted, however, with Covid19 we were
not able to do the same types of evangelism that we have done in the past.
Thus, we have been evangelizing people in need through aid. We have served food
baskets, several bags of diapers, quarts of milk and cooking oil and much more.
Many have come back to the Lord and many have been baptized during the
pandemic. We have reached people that we would never reach without the
pandemic.
2. BROLM offers monthly discipleship materials to all the BROLM churches
and to many other Christian Churches throughout the Portuguese-Speaking World.
3. The “Hands On” Bible College is being offered Online,
because of Covid 19, and we have students from all BROLM congregations and
several locations. BROLM coordinates the “Hands On” Bible College in
Mozambique and Portugal.
4. All the BROLM Churches are growing and at the same time, BROLM is
preparing new teams to plant future new churches.
5. Jeff and Monica have invested their time in strengthening the
leadership at the local churches. Thus, they have promoted several leadership
training events, they visited all the churches and are encouraged to see each
of them growing.
6. BROLM has been giving assistance to the work in Mozambique since 2003
where they just celebrated 25 years of ministry. The churches in Mozambique
continue growing; new churches are being planted. The grade school is doing
well. The Hope Home continues to server several boys and girls that are
homeless.
7. Jeff leads the local leaders at 5 congregations in São Paulo. They
all work as a big team together. As a whole they are working to reach all areas
of Sao Paulo with the Gospel and planning to plant 15 new churches together. In
the local level helping each other to reach their neighborhoods. More church
leaders are being trained though “Hands On” Bible College.
8. BROLM promotes a National Leadership Summit every year, however, this
year we had to cancel since our speakers from the churches in the USA could not
come because of the pandemic.
9. BROLM Retreat has been used for day camps specially for the youth. We
intend to start building a meeting and eating hall soon as God has provided
BROLM with the funds for this purpose.
10. For BROLM the pandemic has been a great blessing. We have started
several new ministries, we are doing many ministries better, many have come
back to the Lord, and many lives have confessed, repented and been baptized in
Jesus Christ.
11. A great addition to BROLM this past year was for Isaac to come to
Brasil and work full time with us. He is responsible to coordinate the youth
groups at BROLM´s congregations as a disciple pastor, the day camps for the
youth, he is preaching at all BROLM congregations, focusing more at Campo Limpo
Paulista Church, he is responsible for the monthly reports and videos and many
other activities.
12. Another great addition to BROLM this past year was for Roger to
offer to represent the ministry in the USA. Thus, at any time that you need
someone to represent BROLM at CHCC Roger is available.
TYPES OF MINISTRY: (PLEASE CHECK)
EVANGELISM (X)
EQUIPPING/DISCIPLING (X)
MEDICAL MISSIONS ( )
MISSIONARY PREPARATION (X)
COUNSELING (X)
CHURCH PLANTING (X)
MISSIONARY ASSISTANCE (X)
BENEVOLENCE (X)
TRANSLATION SERVICES (X)
SHORT TERM MISSIONS (X)
OTHER (PLEASE EXPLAIN):
DESCRIBE YOUR TYPICAL DAY AND PRIMARY MINISTRY
ACTIVITIES:
In the mission field there are no typical days,
however here are some of the things we are sure to do every day:
Devotional (Prayer and Bible Reading).
Teaching and Sermon preparations.
Contact Church Leaders and Members.
Answer e-mails and other correspondences.
Family Time.
Here are some other activities:
Every Sunday – Preach two to four times at the
BROLM Churches.
Every Monday – Work at the office, sermon
preparation, write devotional for the week and Teach HoBC Online.
Every Tuesday – Discipleship at Jundiaí Church.
Every Wednesday – Discipleship at Campo Limpo
Paulista Church.
Every Thursday – Discipleship at Pirituba
Church.
Every Friday – Day Off.
Every Saturday – There are different types of
outreach.
Every three months – Meet with all church
leaders (pastors, elders and ministries leaders) this is done mostly online.
WHAT MARKERS HAVE YOU USED OVER THE PAST YEAR
TO MEASURE YOUR MINISTRY’S EFFECTIVENESS? HOW WELL HAS YOUR MINISTRY MET THESE
MARKERS? PLEASE EXPLAIN.
1. God’s approval – Everything we do is first presented to God in prayer, as
we pray we ask God to show us where He is working so we can put our hands with
His. When God opens the doors providing the volunteers to do the work and the
resources, we know that He is approving.
2. People to be reached, baptized and discipled
- For each congregation we set tangible goals and as we start to do our part
through evangelism we see the Holy Spirit do His work of saving souls in our
midst and the churches have grown. We try not to focus only on numbers, but on
lives transformed by God’s Grace; thus, we work in discipling.
3. “Hands On” Bible College – We have set a goal to have a HOBC available to all congregations
through classes online, we have students from several locations.
4. Church Plant – We focus on planting new
churches that will grow to become strong congregations that are ready to plant
other new congregations. After moving back full time to Brazil in 2015 we have
concentrated on helping make these congregations stronger and God has given the
blessing to see them grow stronger with vision for the future every day. Our
goal being to plant 15 more churches in the next years in Sao Paulo.
GOALS AND VISION FOR THE NEXT YEAR:
1. Continue to help the local congregations and
future church plants evangelistic outreach.
2. Continue to produce monthly discipleship
material for the local congregations and other churches throughout the
Portuguese-Speaking World.
3. Continue to offer the “Hands
On” Bible
College for all congregations in Brazil, Mozambique, and Portugal.
4. Promote leadership training by visiting the
local churches and encouraging them.
5. Promote the seventh national Leadership
Summit.
6. Start 20 new Small Groups.
7. Start building the meeting/eating hall at
the retreat/camp and raise funds for the dorms and other buildings.
8. Isaac and Jamie are schedule to get married June
25th and she plans to move to Brasil and work full-time with BROLM
evangelizing by teaching English as second language.
9. Raise funds to add Jamie as full-time worker
with us in Brasil.
PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PAST YEAR:
Our personal highlight is the fact to be found
by God worthy to work in His Kingdom.
Even though Monica has so many health
limitations, it is great to see her commitment with the Kingdom and always
looking forward to what God has next.
God has given us health—especially spiritually
and mentally.
To see our sons, Roger and Isaac serving the
Lord and willingness to work with us in God’s Kingdom!
WHAT ARE YOUR CURRENT FURLOUGH PLANS INCLUDING
ANY PLANNED VISITS TO USA CHURCHES?
Jeff, Monica and Isaac are usually in the USA
in Nov/Dec of each year, however, Roger is available to visit and report
throughout the year. Isaac will be I the USA until July 2022, thus, he is also
available.
HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED ANY HEALTH CONCERNS ABOUT WHICH CHCC NEEDS TO BE MADE AWARE?
We are doing well, Mônica has her limitations,
otherwise we are healthy as a horse.
WHAT ARE YOUR CURRENT PRAYER NEEDS, FAMILY
NEEDS, AND FINANCIAL NEEDS WITH WHICH CHCC COULD POTENTIALLY ASSIST? WHAT NEEDS
WOULD YOU LIKE US TO CONSIDER AS WE DEVELOP OUR NEXT ANNUAL MISSIONS BUDGET?
Please, pray for us as a whole, for all areas
of life, we need all the prayers we can get.
Pray for Isaac that will get married and move
to Brasil July 2022 to work with BROLM. Jamie will end her studies at Johnson
University, May 2022.
Pray that God will give me (Jeff) wisdom to do
His will and lead the ministry among the Portuguese-Speaking World with good
health for His honor and glory.
Please, pray for each church and church leaders
for God to give them wisdom to do His will.
We are in many ways attacked by Satan. The
battles are many, but we know that Satan and his kingdom are defeated in Jesus’
name. We all need to keep our focus as we have seen his big trick is to take us
off course attempting to change our focus. Thus we need your prays to “deliver
us from the evil one”.
To maintain the “Hands On” Bible College at other local
churches in Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique and online we need $12,000 per year.
To add Jamie as full-time worker in Brasil we
need to raise $12,000.
We believe, all of our current supporters will
continue supporting BROLM in 2022. If that is the case, we will be able to
maintain the ongoing ministries without any extra funding; however, the funds
to our new workers, and the “Hands On” Bible College are urgent
needs.
We also believe that God will continue to be
gracious and will permit us to build the retreat/camp—all for His honor and
glory.
Thanks for your prayer and support, they are
vital for us to continue to do what God has called us to do!
Jeff and Mônica Fife
