Brazil's Missionary Training Centre (Centro de Treinamento e Estudos Transculturais) is asking for help to identify business opportunities to further develop more effective use of their Campus facilities in Belo Horizonte.

Join the MTC staff to bless this cross-cultural mission training community preparing missionaries to serve in Brazil and worldwide.

You could also teach from your business experience to inspire and encourage new entrepreneurs to find business as mission openings around the world.

Qualities & Gifts Sought

You will need some fluency in Portuguese and Intermediate level English. You have good experience in professional business advice on strategic planning and project development.

You will enjoy identifying profitable business opportunities and strategic use of college campus buildings.

Experience in self-sustainable projects and willingness to mentor business entrepreneurs will be beneficial.

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About Missionary Training Colleges

WEC understands the importance of proper training and preparation for cross-cultural mission. Hence, we have several colleges around the world, which specialise in training Christians for mission.

Teaching includes input on theology and biblical interpretation, along with mentoring, and practical guidance on evangelism, outreach and ministry skills. Hands-on experience of outreach is also a core component of this training, enabling students to put the theory into practice.

With English-, Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking colleges in Australia, Brazil (Portuguese), Kenya, Mexico (Spanish), the Netherlands, and New Zealand, residential and online training is within reach for any aspiring missionary.

Equipping the mission-minded: read more about our Cross-cultural Training Centres here.

About Brazil

Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil) is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.  

At 8.5 million square kilometers (3.2 million square miles)  and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous. The capital is Brasília, and the most populated city is São Paulo.

Urban areas  concentrate 84.35% of the population, and the Southeast region is the most populated one, with over 80 million inhabitants.  

Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 kilometers (4,655 mi). It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47.3% of the continent's land area.  

Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection.  

Brazil's economy is the world's eighth-largest. Until 2010 Brazil had one of the world's fastest growing major economies. It has been characterised as a potential superpower. One of the world's major breadbaskets, Brazil has also been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years.  

Brazilian cuisine varies greatly by region, reflecting the country's varying mix of indigenous and immigrant populations. A typical meal consists mostly of rice and beans with beef, salad, french fries and a fried egg. Often, it's mixed with cassava flour (farofa). The national beverage is coffee!  

[Read more about Brazil on Wikipedia]

Brazil has 309 people groups and 30 of these are considered unreached - these 30 people groups have yet to hear the good news about of Jesus.  

89.5% are professing Christians, and of those, 24.7% call themselves Evangelical.  

[Source: Joshua Project]
 
Pray with us for this land, for:
The challenges of economic corruption and crime
Poverty which still effects tens of millions
The Catholic Church
Brazil’s unreached people groups
The indigenous peoples of Brazil
[Operation World print edition, 2010]  

You can also pray online for Brazil with Operation World

WEC in Brazil

WEC has been in Brazil since 1922, and WEC’s first branch outside Africa was established in 1923 called ‘The Heart of Amazonia Mission’.

Today, WEC Brazil's vision is the evangelization of all unreached people groups in partnership with Brazilian churches.

'We work in partnership with Brazilian churches in order to send out missionaries who are well prepared, as well as care for them and their families, so that they might have an effective and long-lasting ministry among unreached peoples. We also have teams reaching out to indigenous peoples in Brazil.'

WEC established a Missionary Training College in Minas Gerais to train Portuguese-speaking missionaries to be sent out. Centro de Treinamento e Estudos Transculturais is now based at the WEC Centre in Belo Horizonte.

Read in Portuguese about WEC Brasil.
More about what WEC is doing in the Americas here.