2. The area of Brazil is about the same as the area of the contiguous 48 states of the United States. Notice where the equator passes. There are a number of geographical regions: the Amazon basin, the north eastern dry area, the central plains, the Atlantic highlands and the southern temperate zone.

5. The men who first asked WELS to come to Brazil

6. The registered church they had founded which made it possible, by law, to bring missionaries into the country. This was 1987.

7. Commitee members from the U.S making plans.

8. In 2007, 20 years after the first missionaries landed in Brazil, by the blessing of the Holy Spirit, the national church was formed in a founding convention. It is called the Igreja Luterana Brasileira (Brasilian Lutheran Church).

9. At this time there are two registered congregations, one in the city of Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul, and one in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. A start has been made in Presidente Prudente, São Paulo.

10. JESUS SALVADOR - GRAVATAI Finished in 2007-8

13. In Gravataí Pastor Nate, Pastor Elcy, and Pastor Charles

14. Scenes from Gravataí

17. Dourados

18. Building in Dourados

19. with a parsonage in the back.

20. Estrella de Belem Church -Dourados

21. Main outreach in Dourado is through weekly children classes in people’s homes

22. Singing unto the Lord

23. Our keyboardist at age 10..

24. An active youth group

26. Evangelist Roberto and family. He studied in Gravatai

27. Bell choir of Estrella de Belem. Pastor Flunker and wife directing

29. Faithful Servants founders of Igreja Luterana Brasileira and retired in Dourados serving the Lord

30. What about the future of the Brazilian Lutheran Church?