Good News from Brazil

 This is, without a doubt, the least busy blog in the world. One post per year is the average around here. The good news is that in this year of work a lot of good things happened and I will update the numbers that were mentioned in the last post.


And coincidentally, the last post was exactly one year ago, when I announced the launch of the new Church mobile app, which at that time had jumped from 64 to 128 users. Now, one year later, this number has more than doubled and we now have 293 active users on the app.



Also between January 2023 and January 2024, more than 100 copies of the Systematic Theology book were distributed.

And in December 2023 we held the first general meeting of autonomous Churches in Brazil.


This is excellent news for the Church of God in our country.

Now we launch the next translation project. This time the work translated into Portuguese will be the book "Primitive Christianity in Crisis" by Alan Knight.

This time I would like to post the phases of the project on this blog and then, with the work already published in Portuguese, personally take a copy as a gift from the Brazilian Church of God to the author in the city of Seattle, in the USA.


I need to speed up the translation so this happens soon.

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