If you enjoy teaching English, spend a summer holiday blessing young Brazilian Christians eager to learn English, preparing them for cross-cultural mission.

WEC's EFM (English For Mission) programme is an intensive 2-week English language course (14-27 July 2024) focused on Christian and mission vocabulary run at WEC's headquarters in Belo Horizonte.

You'll have a cross-cultural experience in a Christian environment while tasting Brazilian life and get a taste of teaching English abroad.

You will teach three classes of around 8-10 students at three possible levels: basic, intermediate or advanced. Your adult students will be church members, Bible school students, trainee missionaries, and church leaders.

The programme content is flexible with opportunities to share your own Christian testimony and experiences.

Qualities & Gifts Sought

A basic TEFL course and certificate is helpful, but for this short-term experience there’s no requirement to be a trained teacher. You are a native English speaker with some teaching experience.

Resources like English bibles, textbooks and some interactive games will be provided. Feel free to bring your own teaching material and visual aids.

You will come one week before classes begin to prepare, and will be able to stay on an extra week for cultural experiences and sightseeing or opportunity to pick up some Portuguese.

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About Teaching English

Fluency in English provides students with a vital skill. By teaching English as a foreign language you can take opportunities to build relationships with students, which may open doors to share the gospel.

Use your TEFL or TESOL training on a short-term mission experience with WEC. Have an opportunity to travel and experience a new culture. Every year there are opportunities in Brazil and Korea to teach our trainee missionaries. 

Here are some stories from Brazil:

Jacquie taught English in Guinea-Bissau on a short term mission with WEC. Read Jacquie's story.

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 the 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.'

Read in Portuguese about WEC Brasil.

More about what WEC is doing in the Americas here.