Building a training centre in Recife, Brazil
Goal: $61,600
The Anglican Relief and Development Fund Canada is partnering with the Diocese of Recife, specifically Christ the Liberator Anglican Church, to complete construction of an Anglican Center of Holistic Mission. This classroom complex will be adjacent to the Church building, and will house an educational and vocational training centre, as well as a mission centre. The Centre will:
- Train unemployed people in learn new vocational skills.
- Provide children and youth with literacy and educational classes.
- Train lay missionaries to take the Good News to the poor and unreached.
Our funding of this project will enable Christ the Liberator, and its well-qualified project leaders, to address community issues of low education, unemployment and violence while meeting the spiritual needs of the neighborhood.We will help the Church also realize its vision of opening a missions centre that will train parishioners to reach the interior – northeast region – of Brazil with the Good News.
The project
The Need
Our project partners
Goal: $61,600
The Parish – This small congregation has been ministering to the spiritual needs of its community for 13 years through services, prayer meetings, discipleship groups, Bible classes, children’s programs, Alpha, and dramatic presentations.Parish members are committed to the Centre, donating money (despite the low income of many), and volunteering their time to help with construction.Qualified parishioners and others have committed themselves to working as volunteers teaching classes in the Centre.
The Diocese – Recife was one of the first dioceses in the Americas to stand up to the theological revisionism of its province.When the orthodox bishop, Robinson Cavalcanti, and 32 clergy members were deposed by the Primate of Brazil in 2005, 95 per cent of the parishioners in the diocese remained with their bishop.Like the Anglican Network in Canada and other Anglican Church in North America dioceses, the bishop and clergy of Recife were given episcopal refuge by Archbishop Greg Venables in the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
Over the years, the clergy and people of the diocese have suffered much as a result of standing for Biblical faithfulness.However, since realigning out of the Brazilian church, the Diocese of Recife has experienced tremendous growth, more than doubling in size.The Diocese of Recife is highly regarded within the community and has a solid track record of service to the community.
It is a privilege for us to support our brothers and sisters in Recife in their ministry.