2016 ANNUAL MISSIONARY REPORT
NAME:
BROLM - Brazil River
of Life Ministries (Jeff and Monica Fife)
MAILING ADDRESS/EMAIL/WEBSITE/TELEPHONE:
P.O. Box 8262 – Gray – TN – 37615
E-mail: fife@brolm.org / rlm_fifes@hotmail.com
Skype: Jeff.fife
Facebook: Jeff E
Monica Fife
In Brazil: 55-11-9-9511-2436
FORWARDING AGENT/SENDING AGENCY/CONTACT INFORMATION:
MISSION FIELD AND PEOPLE GROUP:
Portuguese-Speaking
World (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, São
Tome and Principe, Portugal, and USA)
HOW LONG SERVING ON THIS FIELD:
Monica and I have
serving in the Portuguese-Speaking World together for 28 years. BROLM been
serving this same people group since 2001.
ORIGINAL TIME COMMITMENT TO THIS MINISTRY AND CURRENT
TIME COMMITMENT TO THIS MINISTRY:
Our original
commitment to this ministry is for life and it continues to be for life.
TYPE (S) OF MINISTRY:
Evangelism, Church
Planting, Equipping/Discipling, Missionary Assistance, Benevolence, Missionary
Preparation, Translation Services, Counseling and Short Term Missions.
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.
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
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. During this year
BROLM promoted an average of 3 evangelistic outreaches per month throughout the
churches that BROLM has planted in the Southeast, Midwest and Northeast of Brazil.
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 at 4 BROLM congregations in the Southeast, 1 in the
Midwest and 1 in the Northeast. BROLM coordinates the “Hands On”
Bible College at Mozambique and Portugal, where Jeff and Monica had the
opportunity this year to visit and teach.
4. BROLM is helping
plant the church in Areias, Recife. At the same time, BROLM is preparing two
teams to plant two new churches—one in Moraguape and another in Fortaleza.
5. Since Jeff and
Monica moved full-time back to Brazil in May 2015, they 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. This year alone, just in the
churches in Brazil, there were over 100 baptisms.
6. During the visit
to Portugal, Jeff assisted in planting two new churches.
7. BROLM has been
giving assistance to the work in Mozambique since 2003 where they celebrated 20
years of ministry in Oct 2016. When BROLM started to give them guidance, they
had less them 30 churches and today they have planted 72 churches. They had a
grade school with less them 200 students, today the school has 1070 students.
They started a children’s home that has over 70 children. And, they
had about 200 members in 2003 in the church—and now have over 2000. This year
they have baptized over 200 new converts to Christ.
8. This year Jeff
and Monica also had the opportunity to speak at the International Convention of
the Christian Churches/Churches of Christ in Korea.
9. Jeff is also
pastoring two local churches, Pirituba and Bom Retiro. New pastors are
currently being trained to pastor these and other churches through the “Hands On”
Bible College.
10. BROLM also
promoted the third National Leadership Summit where pastor Ron Key from
Cornerstone Christian Church was the speaker.
11. Itty Bitty Seed
Ministries, a team from Seymour Heights Christian Church, led by pastor Bob
Berry, also visited BROLM southeast churches this year.
11. God provided
BROLM with the great blessing of purchasing almost 6 acres of land to build a
retreat/camp.
PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PAST YEAR:
Monica and I are
very happy to see our sons growing and maturing, however more important, it has
been to see their commitment with the Lord!
We were looking
forward to coming back full-time to Brazil and God allowed that to happen in
May 2015. It is great to be back in the
field doing what God has called us to do!
Overall, the biggest
highlight in our personal lives is to be found by God to be worthy, and it is
He that makes us worthy, to work for Him in His Kingdom! In spite of us, He is
merciful and He uses us for his honor and glory!
God has blessed us
tremendously to see so many souls reached for Christ and His kingdom growing.
It is an honor to be used by God in His Kingdom!
CURRENT FURLOUGH PLANS:
Monica and I will be
in the USA from Nov 14 to Dec 07, 2017 and you would like for us to visit,
please, give us a date during the days we will be in the USA and we will be
happy to report to you at this opportunity. Thanks!
CURRENT FINANCIAL SITUATION AND RETIREMENT PLAN:
See below BROLM 2015
Audit Financial Report and 2017 Budget.
We have an IRA
retirement plan and we pay social security.
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 at the local congregations in
Brazil, Mozambique, and Portugal. The goal is to offer the “Hands On”
Bible College at all BROLM Churches; for this to become a reality we are
training new teachers. Jeff is scheduled to travel to Angola in May and to
Guinea Bissau in September to launch the “Hands On”
Bible College in those countries.
4. We are praying
the two BROLM church planting teams in Maraguape and Fortaleza will be ready to
go this year. Maraguape will be planted the first semester of 2017, and
Fortaleza in the second semester.
5. Promote
leadership training by visiting the local churches and encouraging them.
6. Promote the
fourth national Leadership Summit where the speakers will be Dr. Wilber Reid
from Johnson University and Journey Christian Church, Mark Haga from Colonial
Heights Christian Church, LeAnne Blackmore and Amy Crawford from First
Christian Church Johnson City. Dr. John Green from FCC-JC is not confirmed, but
he may be one of the speakers too.
7. Jeff was invited
to speak at one of the main sessions and to conduct a workshop at the World
Convention in India in January. He and Monica will leave Brazil Jan 10th and
will return on the 17th.
8. Jeff and Monica
intend to attend ICOM 2017, thus they plan to be in the USA from Nov 14 to Dec
07.
9. Raise funds and
start building the retreat/camp.
CURRENT PRAYER NEEDS, FAMILY NEEDS, AND FINANCIAL NEEDS:
Please, pray for
Monica’s health she has had many health problems through the years and in
the last 3 months she has had many of the same symptoms that she used to have
before she had the brain tumor removed in 2008.
Pray for our sons
Roger and Isaac who are studying in the USA. Roger feels that his calling is
teaching and he is being prepared for that and Isaac has a calling for missions
and he is being prepared for that.
Pray that will give
me (Jeff) wisdom to do God’s 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 launch the “Hands On”
Bible College in Angola, Guinea Bissau and other local churches in Brazil and
to keep the “Hands On” Bible College in all the locations in Brazil,
Portugal, and Mozambique we need $10,000.
To plant the two new
churches (Maraguape and Fortaleza) we need a one-time gift of $6,000 for each
and we already have received $4,255.00 for this purpose, thus we still need
$7,745 for this purpose.
To build the first
phase of the retreat/camp we need to raise $120,000. This first phase will make
it possible to accommodate 100 campers.
We believe, all of
our current supporters will continue supporting BROLM in 2017. If that is the
case, we will be able to maintain the ongoing ministries without any extra
funding; however, the “Hands On” Bible College and
the new church plants 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.
Brazil River of Life Ministries
Income and Expenses
January through December 2015
Income
Designated & Undesignated $110,515.00
Total
Income $110,515.00
Expense
Benevolence/Missions $1,200.00
Total
Benevolence/Missions $1,200.00
Living
Expenses Salaries $37,100.00
Total
Living Expenses $37,100.00
Ministry
Expenses – Brazil
Evangelism & Discipleship $6,600.00
Retreat Center $2,500.00
Van for Brazil $4,091.00
Airconditioning for Pirituba Church $2,089.00
Travel Expenses $4,446.91
Ministry/Missions/Benevolence $2,500.00
Government Taxes and Fees $660.00
Church Plants $18,000.00
Hands on Bible College $7,464.75
Total
Ministry Expenses - Brazil $48,351.66
Ministry
Expenses - Mozambique
Mozambique Ministry $4,860.00
Well in Mozambique $10,000.00
Total
Ministry Expenses - Mozambique $14,860.00
Operations
Expenses - US Office
Phone/Mobile/Internet $908.76
ICOM Booth Fees $350.00
Legal & Accounting $980.00
Office Expense $1,966.90
Taxes & Licenses $160.00
Total
Operations Expenses - US Office $4,365.66
Total
Expenses $105,877.32
Net
Income in 2015 $4,637.68
Donor
Demographic for 2015:
8 Churches 43,545.00 39.40%
35 Individuals 66,970.00 60.60%
BRAZIL
RIVER OF LIFE MINISTRIES
2017 YEARLY BUDGET:
BRAZIL
MINISTRY
Evangelism $
3,600.00
Discipleship $
3,000.00
New Church Planting $12,000.00
Church Plant – Fortaleza $ 6,000.00
Church Plant – Maraguape $ 6,000.00
Ministry/Missions/Benevolence $ 3,600.00
Government Taxes and Bank Fees $
600.00
Total
Brazil Ministry $34,800.00 (A)
“HANDS-ON”
BIBLE COLLEGE $ 15,000.00 (B) (Angola, Brazil, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique
and Portugal)
MOZAMBIQUE
MINISTRY $ 4,800.00
(C)
OPERATIONS
EXPENSES OFFICE USA
Operations $ 1,000.00
CPA $ 1,000.00
Newsletters and others $ 1,800.00
Traveling Expenses $ 2,000.00
Total
Operations Expenses $ 5,800.00 (D)
LIVING
EXPENSES
Salary $18,600.00
Home Allowance $ 11,400.00
Medical & Life Insurance $ 3,300.00
Retirement and Social Security $
2,700.00
Total Living Expenses $36,000.00 (E)
TOTAL
YEARLY EXPENSES (A+B+C+D+E) $96,400.00
(F)
BRAZIL
RIVER OF LIFE MINISTRIES
2016 YEARLY SUPPORT:
CHURCHES
– REGULAR SUPPORT:
Bethany Christian Church $ 3,800.00
Braceville Christian Church $ 1,500.00
Coffee Creek Christian Church $ 480.00
Colonial Heights Christian Church $
6,000.00
Cornerstone Christian Church $ 6,000.00
Howard Christian Church $ 1,836.00
Journey Christian Church $ 7,300.00
Seymour Heights Christian Church $
9,480.00
TOTAL $36,396.00
(G)
INDIVIDUALS
– SUPPORT (Friends and Family):
$
120.00
$ 360.00
$
600.00
$
600.00
$
600.00
$
1,200.00
$
1,200.00
$
1,200.00
$
1,200.00
$
3,600.00
$
5,600.00
$12,000.00
TOTAL $28,280.00
(H)
DESIGNATED
SUPPORT:
NEW
CHURCH PLANT:
First Christian Church $ 7,980.00
One-time gift for Church Plant $ 4,435.00
Seymour Heights Christian Church $
3,840.00
TOTAL $16,255.00
(I)
MOZAMBIQUE
SUPPORT:
Seymour Heights Christian Church $
3,240.00
TOTAL $ 3,240.00 (J)
TOTAL
SUPPORT: $84,171.00
BROLM 2017 Yearly Budget for the
ministry in Brazil, “Hands On” Bible College, Mozambique, Operations, Living
and Mission Trips is $96,400.00. If the supporters that have supported BROLM in
2016 continue with their regular support in 2017, between churches and
individuals that support the ministry in Brazil and Mozambique, we have committed
$84,171.00.
FURTHERMORE,
FOR BROLM TO REACH ITS GOAL FOR 2017, IT NEEDS AN EXTRA 14.53% increase of
$12,229.00
We believe with all of our heart that
God will move peoples' hearts as He has moved yours, and we will reach this
goal for His honor and glory. We have many goals for Brazil River of Life
Ministries for 2017 – We want to continue reaching many souls for the Lord in
2017, please continue supporting BROLM!
Thank
you very much for supporting us!
Your
prayers and financial support are vital for our lives and ministry.
May the Lord richly bless you!
God is good,
He is among us, and He is acting! In His Love and Service,
Jeff and
Monica Fife
