Tag: Amazon

Brazil Outreaches Updates

Oakdale Team

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One visit, seven team members, and 4,000 miles of travel. What does that add up to? One life-changing trip for a group from Oakdale Church in Olney, Maryland, who had numerous opportunities to share the love of Jesus with Brazilians. It was a dream that began in 2020 when Lana Vasquez, founder of Life Impact [...]
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Brazil Outreaches Prevention Rescue

A Jewell in Brazil

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Through tears, training, and short-term mission work, Jewell has become a jewel Life Impact International needs in the Amazon. The native of Canada leads our team in that region of Brazil. Her love story with Brazil—specifically the Amazon area—began ten years ago. Jewell knew she wanted a “God adventure,” and the destination in her heart [...]
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Brazil Prevention

First Soccer Tournament

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Recently, our team in Rio hosted our first-ever Life Impact Brasil Soccer Tournament for kids in one of our prevention project communities! One of our team's goals is to not only impact at-risk children and teens, but to truly reach and bring about lasting change within their communities. With that, we held our first official [...]
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Brazil Outreaches Prevention

Why the Amazon?

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“Children freely sell themselves for rice and beans, or for whatever they are able to. This is so different than anything I’ve ever seen in Thailand or Myanmar, where children are forced to sell their bodies. But in Brazil, I saw girls 9 to 12-years-old freely sell their bodies. It was right there, in front [...]
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