South America

Amazon Outreach

Since 1991, hundreds of Prestonwood members have traveled down one of the most majestic rivers in the world while working with local Brazilian pastors to evangelize unreached people groups in northern Brazil. Opportunities include evangelism, medical and dental care, Vacation Bible School, showing The Jesus Film, encouraging spiritual development of families, and strengthening existing church works.

For more information, please visit www.amazonoutreach.com.

Mendoza, Argentina

International Commission has a “Covenant Agreement” with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board working together to fulfill the Great Commission. Upon the invitation from the Baptist Association of Mendoza, Argentina, southern Baptist churches from the U.S. are sending teams to join them in the work of city-wide evangelism. Our work will be conducted in the Mendoza (western Argentina) area which includes all cities and suburbs surrounding the city. The local churches have been building relationships with people, hoping to open the door for us to share the Gospel. 150 men and women from across the U.S. will partner with the 80 churches in the Mendoza region.

Colombia

God has provided an opportunity for Prestonwood to reach its arms of Christian love, service and ministry to this wonderful country. This opportunity involves ministry to the displacados or displaced peoples of Colombia – working alongside career IMB missionaries to do personal evangelism with the goal of church planting. We will be working in Bogotá, Colombia. You can expect to work with children, teens and adults in the midst of the displacados those forgotten people forced to migrate to the cities in order to survive.

Parintins, Brazil

For the past five years, people have traveled to the city of Parintins (population: 100,000) from all over the world to participate in the “Festival of the Bull”—an extremely pagan and demonic carnival celebration in a city-provided stadium. The stadium, which seats more than 30,000, was built for the sole purpose of housing this annual event. On mission trips, the stadium may be used for massive rallies and crusades as a way to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ministry opportunities include personal evangelism, encouraging fellow believers, and serving the local evangelical churches.