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Our church building is very conveniently located—just three
blocks from the main downtown square
of Belo Horizonte, which
has a metropolitan population of about five million. There are hundreds of
thousands of cars and hundreds of bus lines that pass both in front of and
behind us each day, besides a bridge that borders our building and links the
Central area of the city with a populous area just behind us. Besides this, the
central station of the elevated city passenger train is located just one block
from us. You can imagine how many people pass our building each day. Many of
these also read our church billboard and visit our worship services. Besides
these, most of our visitors are family and friends of our members and are
invited personally, as is the case everywhere. It is very seldom that we have
fewer than five first time visitors in a Sunday worship service. When they
come, they appreciate our simple, sincere, Bible based worship service and mark
their attendance cards asking for prayers, Bible Study or a visit from someone
at church. We try to visit all of these and involve them in activities for
spiritual growth.

In order to serve these people and help the church grow as
the Lord wants, one of our greatest needs is well prepared workers. For this
reason the National
Bible School
was started in 1989. The school is national, with several nuclei all over Brazil. Ours
was the first nucleus that was recognized and is the only one that began when
the school opened and has continued uninterrupted until today. Brethren in
other cities around Brazil
are interested in opening nuclei in their cities as well. The central office
was moved to Belo Horizonte
last year. We are now building an office and library space at the Central
church building in order to house all of the documents and books of the school.
All of the board of directors is from the greater Belo Horizonte area. The classes this quarter
in the Belo Horizonte
nucleus are Psalms, Minor Prophets, Revelation and Guided Practice. Please pray for us as we prepare more workers for the
harvest.