WAGF Missions Connection Volume 2 Issue 1 - Assemblies of God ...

Brazil | Interview With Julio Machado (connued)
Missions Chair and Missions Director
Our missions agency was born in 1992, and in 2000 it became known as
“Missionary Planters With a Passion for Souls”—SEMIPA. We have
added hundreds of supporng churches for the training, adopon,
sending, and sustaining of missionaries. The board is composed of
people from various denominaons and regions and volunteers who
minister in preaching, lectures, seminars, and workshops. We have a
theological course and other training with various groups in Portuguese
and Spanish. The missionary candidates are trained in loaned facilies,
and we are praying for a missionary training center and refuge, which
by faith has already been named “Barn to the Naons.”
Tell us some secrets of how your missions agency grew.
We recognize our geographical, academic, and financial limitaons, but
we never forget the enabling and supplying power of God. We search
for willing and available team members, and we strive to make the
term “passion for souls” not just an expression, but a real feeling in
each of our hearts. With all that focus, we want to send or adopt only
those who are really idenfied and commied to the profile
established by Jesus to preach the gospel and make disciples. We were
also blessed to find people and churches commied to the expansion
of the Kingdom; in these 20 years God has always provided the
resources to sustain the missionaries without delays.
What is your vision for the future?
Our goal is for the physical, financial, and human structures to reach at
least 20 countries through 100 missionary families.
Brad Walz translated by Marcelo
Marns at the convenon.
The simple offices of Semipa, where
five work full-me. From here more
than 80 missionaries are sent to 20
countries.
I believe Brazil is a “sleeping giant” and could have a big impact on
the world. I look forward to the day when Brazil is known for its great mission, not its great football
players. What is your desire, as a Brazilian, for the Brazilian church?
My desire is that God promotes a great missionary revival among evangelical churches which have grown in
number and financial resources, and that He uses each of the boards and missions agencies to challenge,
train, and send many Brazilians to truly needy areas.
A night view of the acvity of the 3000 who aended the missions convenon at Municipal Government Campground.