About Our Ministry

Railson is a Brazilian pastor born and raised in the Amazon basin. Heidi is a missionary nutritionist from Oregon, USA . We met in Brazil in 1998 and were married the following year. We have two grade school children. We pastored a Vineyard church in Porto de Moz until moving to Almeirim in 2004, where we worked for two years on another church plant. This second church plant was smoothly melded together with another local plant which became Igreja da Paz in 2006. Since the beginning of 2007 we have lived in Monte Dourado, about 125km north of Almeirim, working with a growing local church, also Igreja da Paz, while developing a tentmaking project. This project was a wireless Internet service provider known as Amaster. We have since sold out of the business and are preparing to invest the proceeds in community developement through health work and, possibly, educational radio and digital inclusion (making computer technology available to the low income sector).

Both of us preach and minister weekly in the Portuguese language. Heidi does nutrition consulting, translates English-based literature and Bible studies, and teaches English as a part-time job. We are currently helping to establish the local leadership team and working on logistics of the church plant (e.g. building space for meetings, supplies, etc.). Our church is firm on the Word, discipleship, and mid-week cell groups. We love worship through music and our services always reflect that fact.