Categoria: Projects

Our Soups Runs go into shanty towns and slums to take a nutritive meal for the desperately poor. The food is first prepared at the Care Centre.

Whilst EAB’s projects focus on helping the poor help themselves, our food bank steps in to help people in desperate urgent need. Food donations come from our churches and from EAB supporters and the food bank runs all the year round with a special extra effort at Christmas.

Provides very poor families, who have no toilets, with an outside toilet/shower we build for them, which includes a hand basin and external sink to wash clothes. It has a water tank on top and a cess pit beneath. This is a practical expression of God’s love.

EAB has maintained radio ministry for the past 35 years and it remains a great means of reaching the masses with the Gospel as well as maintaining contact with Christians in places with difficult road access. Today we are on air from 8 radio stations spread all over Paraíba and Pernambuco States.

EAB churches are mobilized churches with a wide variety of ministries so that the body of Christ can be entirely involved in spreading the Gospel. Thus there are ministries for all age groups, men’s, women’s and youth fellowship groups, married couples ministry plus music & drama and ministry to children. EAB churches are not one-man bands – they are orchestras!

EAB has increasingly focused on church and project leadership training over the past 30 plus years. This is our Campina Grande Bible College, but we also have distance learning courses as well as our regular leadership and youth conferences. All is aimed at equipping leaders for sound Biblical preaching, teaching and balanced leadership across north-east Brazil. Strong capable leaders are a key factor in EAB church sustainability strategy.

Green Pastures is a Christian Conference Centre & Nature Reserve developing leadership training in an environment which cares for God’s creation as an example to our region. It is home for youth & children’s camps, church fellowship days, regular church, school for local farm workers’ children, church leaders seminars, scientific research, plus environmental and organic education.

EAB’s work is situated in a tropical semi-arid region facing annual severe droughts, so we run various projects to help people in the interior cope and to help churches survive: Wells (see photo), 4 Legs (goats), Market Gardens, Trees, 2 Wings (laying hens), Biogas (produced from cattle dung), Bees, Environmental care, Rain harvesters, Underground dams etc. We thus aim to help rural people stay on the land with decent life quality.

The deaf understand the Gospel and come to Christ as a result of this growing project over more than 20 years. Our services are interpreted by our own qualified sign-language experts and many deaf people are now church members. The project leader is our own deaf pastor Luiz Carlos. The project has the added spin-off of giving jobs in schools to our sign-language experts who have gone on to do degrees in the field after learning the basics with EAB.

EAB has recently had some fruitful years of evangelism and church planting, especially in needy rural areas such as here at Barra de Oitis. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is being faithfully preached by mobilized churches, which are ablaze for God’s Kingdom, pressing into off track places in deep dry valleys and on rocky mountains. Evangelistic teams share the Gospel all around our region. God’s truth is marching on!

EAB’s Christian Care Centre continues to work hard and flourish. The Centre runs dental care, senior citizens care and a food bank. The Centre’s work with the deaf is well known in the region and also trains people in Brazilian sign language.

This EAB project helps poor children become literate and successful in their primary education, giving them teaching with love, plus nourishing food, whilst seeking to bring them to a knowledge of Jesus Christ as Saviour. The programme runs from nursery to year 5. It is funded by school/child sponsors who fund the children’s education. It is being a blessing in incredibly desperate situations.