Chico - The Brazilian

The Beach Project has finished. God has taught me so much through this time of preparation, execution and evaluation. The project was without a doubt a moment that God used to challenge me in new ways. It was also to equip me, to help me to understand more about leadership in the Gospel as I had the chance to be the director. But this position of director left me in a very dependent position towards God and I was confident that only God could make this project to happen successfully.

And He made it a great project! Not only in the structure side of it, that was excellent but also the more important, we had a project filled with His presence. Alleluias!!

The project was a project of opportunities of faith! It was a project where I was leading and doing that for the first time. Almost all leaders were leading in a position of challenge and of newness. This gave to all a broken heart that could be felt invading the project.

In this project we felt great intimacy with God as a team, in vulnerability, confidence, service and love. God has built this project with Wide Opened Arms, with great power. I have being praying that the people could be touched, and they could not only hear new things about God but they could experience God in their lives as something very real for them. And it happened!!! The SPIRIT has moved!!! God touched lives; people had been invaded by love and had been marked by the rest n of their lives. They had been marked by the sacrificial love of Christ in each person there, not only in the leaders but in every one that was there.

I am now receiving a lot of emails with lot’s of students telling me how great was there experience with God in this project and how life changing it has being for them. They were touched by God’s word, by His love through all people that were there, the community.

Thank you Lord for all you have done for us!

Francisco & Cristina Rodrigues - 13th February 2007
Campus Outreach Brazil

Lucas(in blue) and his SBP roomates

It was 18 days that has looked like 30. It was a awesome time!!! It was a great time to grow in our relationship with God and other people. Intimacy that reflected God’s glory. My heart was more broken than before. Now with WIDE OPEN ARMS I am. Thank you Lord for this opportunity. We can’t live with indifference, the Gospel is powerful!

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways

And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55: 8-9

The beach project was really good. I think that the power of God and His Spirit were overflowing in people's lives. So many people could learn about Jesus and His love, and really experience that He's a good God.
After two weeks of the end of the Beach Project I can see a lot what God has done during the project and what He's still doing. So many people are getting to understand the Gospel, and the love of Christ. Now they can understand that Jesus died on the cross, to save every each one of us. It's really good to see the greater miracle, people surrendering their lives to God.
It was an awesome experience to lead my roommates. I feel that God has given us an amazing opportunity to relate, even after the project and grow in our faith.
Albert, a good friend of mine who I'm discipling also went to the project. Man, God is revealing His glory a lot to this guy. He's very excited about knowing God more and following Christ.
These are only few examples of what God did, He blessed us with much more.
For me it was amazing to grow in my faith, and to learn more about Jesus and his power. I could talk to peolpe and go deep in my relationship with some friends.
LET'S OPEN OUR ARMS TO CHRIST, SO THAT WE CAN SEE THE GLORY OF HIS OPENED ARMS FOR US.
Hugo Albergaria