Human Trafficking in the Amazon: Prostitution and Forced Labor
Human trafficking in the Amazon is inextricably linked with the fight to preserve the rainforest. It has become a hotbed of illegal activity as many seek to illegally exploit its valuable resources like lumber, gold, and exotic animals. Illegal mining and logging are rampant in this remote region which provides a perfect breeding ground for […]
War in The City of God
In recent weeks, war has broken out in the City of God favela of Rio between the police and the drug traffickers. As this police action began, the drug traffickers ran to the woods to escape. Police then fired indiscriminately in the direction the drug dealers had fled. Chaos erupted as people flooded the streets, […]
Street Children: Calling Them Precious as Well
There are 150 million street children worldwide. These voiceless, nameless children are despised and hated by those around them but they are precious to Jesus. They are not nameless to Him. So they have to be important to us. We have to look at them, reach out to them and call them precious as well. […]
Brazil: A Burning Dream That Would Not Die
This week we celebrate the miraculous and thrilling news that Life Impact is now an officially registered organization in Brazil! We are on our way to rescuing the precious children that have been calling to Lana for over 19 years!! Nineteen years ago, Lana heard a missionary talking about the desperate plight of the 300,000 […]
Driving Down the Highway to Hell
Lana read this book in August of 2019 and her heart broke again for the children of Brazil. She cried out to God to send her to the children of Brazil and received a release, after 19 years of waiting, to start Life Impact Brazil. This is a summary of the book. We highly [...]
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Our First Christmas in Brazil
This year, we held our very first “Christmas in their Hands, Heaven in their Hearts” outreaches in Brazil. Our team went into two of the darkest and most dangerous favelas in Rio bringing the real meaning of Christmas, Jesus Christ! We saw precious children call on the name of Jesus, many for the very first […]
BRAZIL: Prevention and Our First Rescue
STARTING WITH PREVENTION Despite months of COVID lockdowns, the work in Brazil is going full steam ahead. God has done amazing things to clear the way for us to reach some of the world’s most at-risk and exploited children! And just as we have before, we are starting our work with PREVENTION. As we begin […]
