{"id":1592,"date":"2013-10-11T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T15:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2016-02-23T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:23:36","slug":"postcards-from-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/postcards-from-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mailbox.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: slgckgc on flickr\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mailbox.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/mailbox-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We recently received a long email from Brazil. A ministry there wanted to encourage us by letting us know they had received quite a number of testimonies regarding our tools. Here are a series of translated notes from them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My mother now believes!<\/strong><br \/>\nA missionary wrote to say that for years she had been trying to share the gospel with her own mother. When she got a copy of Portuguese edition of\u00a0<em>The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus<\/em>, she used it to teach her mother and by God&#8217;s grace, her mother understood and now believes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Brazil to Germany and back again<\/strong><br \/>\nIleana* travelled from her home city of Curitiba in Brazil to Germany and stayed with a friend. There she found a copy of <em>The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus<\/em> in the home and read it. She said she was amazed. When she returned to Brazil, she searched to see if there was a Portuguese version of the book. She found it at the ministry&#8217;s online store. She ordered 10 copies to give as presents and before too long, she ordered another 10 more. She wrote to say that some of the book&#8217;s recipients had come to put their trust in Jesus Christ as their Saviour!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ll take 200<\/strong><br \/>\nA pastor from Bel\u00e9m (in Brazil&#8217;s north) bought 200 Bibles, 200 copies of <em>The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus (Portuguese edition)<\/em>\u00a0and 200 Stranger Workbooks. His plan was to give each member of his church a set and to get each one of them to begin guiding a friend through the gospel message. Now that&#8217;s quite a vision to reach the community with the gospel message.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m not giving you back the book<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother missionary in Brazil gave her brother-in-law the Spanish edition of <em>The Stranger<\/em>, who lives in Paraguay. He read the book and came to believe in Jesus as his Saviour. He told his sister-in-law that he wasn&#8217;t going to return the book to her. When she asked why, he told her, &#8220;This book has answered my doubts that no one had been able to answer.&#8221; He was planning to keep it to re-read and refer to.<\/p>\n<p>These stories were such an encouragement to us! We hope they will give you some ideas on how to share the gospel with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Resources:\u00a0The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus in Portuguese on the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.goodseed.com\/the-stranger-on-the-road-to-emmaus-portuguese\/\">US Store<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.goodseed.com\/the-stranger-on-the-road-to-emmaus-portuguese\/\">Canada Store<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a title=\"photo credit: slgckgc on flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/slgc\/7691285678\/\" target=\"_blank\">slgckgc on flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[*Name changed as per GoodSeed policy.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently received a long email from Brazil. A ministry there wanted to encourage us by letting us know they had received quite a number of testimonies regarding our tools. Here are a series of translated notes from them. My mother now believes! A missionary wrote to say that for years she had been trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/postcards-from-brazil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcards from Brazil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-give-away-the-gospel","category-international","category-testimonies","category-the-stranger-on-the-road-to-emmaus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodseed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}