My beloved and precious Ministry colleagues,
Grace and Peace.
I have spent the last 30 years of my life involved in missionary work abroad, with one clear goal: to develop and solidify a missionary purpose so strong that in 1995, I gave up the church I pastored in Igarapé-Açu, Pará (Brazil), and left — without any financial or institutional backing — to face the missionary challenges of a foreign land with my wife and our four young children.
But God was faithful from beginning to end. We were able to raise our children here, and today they are all successful in the business world. In accordance with God’s foreknowledge, we managed to survive through much effort, working in secular jobs to support ourselves while doing the Lord’s work — planting churches among the immigrant communities living in the United States. And in our most difficult moments, we witnessed the provision and faithfulness of God, who renewed our strength and provided for us even when illnesses and accidents forced us to pause and recover our health.
Today, I believe it was necessary to experience seasons of abandonment and unanswered cries for help to truly understand the internal and external obstacles that keep the church from fulfilling its mission on earth: to preach the Gospel to every creature and reach every culture and environment where people live.
With this in mind, we developed practical, educational, and legal tools to motivate individuals, ministers, and ministries toward a more effective missionary effort. We know we cannot recover lost time, but we can correct mistakes, improve goals, and take real action to make the most of the time that remains — time that God is giving His church to wake up and overcome.
It was in this spirit that we began the Mission Symposiums in 2007, which were held in various U.S. states.
In 2014, we launched SEMIPAN (Pan-American Missiological Seminary) — a training course that has been taught in churches in the U.S., Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, reaching over 20,000 people. Through charts and maps, SEMIPAN explains what the church has done since its beginning and what it still needs to do to fulfill its mission. It has inspired both leaders and members to greater missionary commitment, and we have kept deeply moving testimonies on record since 2014.
In 2018, we began our boldest project yet: training and supporting native workers to plant churches among their own tribes in Africa. The project CHURCH FOR ALL NATIONS has been established even in refugee camps affected by war and natural disasters. The work continues to grow, with new believers being baptized in the Indian Ocean and in the rivers and lakes of Mozambique, Congo, and Burundi.
Evangelism is accompanied by social assistance. We have rescued families from war zones, paid for surgeries, fed orphaned children, and responded to the urgent needs of each moment.
Our mission in Africa has led many ex-Muslims to baptism. When they convert to the Gospel, they show unwavering faith — willing even to die for love of Jesus. Their testimonies are examples of courage that words cannot describe.
But the reason I am sharing all this is to invite you to support our mission.
The Worldwide Missions Network, originally founded in 1985 under the name SIMMI, is an officially recognized missionary association. In Pará, Brazil, many pastors were part of our beginnings, including dear Pastor Valdemar Nascimento Oliveira, our advisor from the early years, along with Pastors Josias Camelo da Silva, Gutembergue Nova Alves, Jedilson Rodrigues, Gerson Rodrigues, José Maria Araújo, and Carlos Soriano, among others in Belém and throughout Brazil.
SIMMI was founded in Brasília, DF, and its co-founder — Pastor Alberico Mendonça, a personal friend and leader — remains active today in our African mission. He chaired the very first meeting where our bylaws were approved.
Now based in Saltville, Virginia (USA), the Worldwide Missions Network lives up to its name. It unites Christians from diverse social positions and church roles, all committed to the global missionary cause. Whether individually or collectively, they are making a difference — lending their voices and financial support so that logistical, financial, and legal assistance can reach the mission fields.
Thankfully, support is arriving. Not in the amount we need — because the challenges are great — but still, for every soul that is saved, baptized, and transformed, the difference is undeniable.
Missionary omission is being corrected, and the Name of the Lord is being glorified in different languages and dialects spoken by the newly converted.
The most amazing and rewarding part is that many Muslims who once supported the execution of Christians by radical Islam have now come to Christ — and in their new faith, they are willing to suffer and even give their lives for love of Christ and to rescue others in their families, tribes, and communities.
I know that when you, the reader, and I, the writer, are no longer here to do this work, God will raise others to continue it and will not allow the mission to stop until it reaches the ends of the earth.
So, what if today, you joined this army of soul winners, so that tomorrow we will be stronger and united for the next victories?
The choice is yours.
For the Master’s Cause,
Calby Amoras de Paiva
Missionary
