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KEN AND SUZANNE FREDERICK Ken and Suzanne live in Manaus, Amazonas, with their four children, David, Lydia, Joshua and Samuel. Ken is SC for the Urban People of Manaus, a city of over 1,500,000, and Boa Vista, capital of the state of Roraima. They are currently on stateside. Their website is http://webmissions.net/frederick/ Steve and Rayna live in Manaus, Amazonas, and are teaching English as a ministry to professional and business class people. They ask continued prayer as they continue to acquire the Portuguese language and build relationships with those around them. Pray specifically for: Nirla, Sidney, Glaucio, Veronica, and Jarley. Their website is www.brazil.faith2live.com This couple lives in Manaus, Amazonas, with their three young children, Emma Grace, Ethan and Evan. They have recently returned to Brazil from their first stateside assignment. During their first term in Brazil they served the rural communities of Acre, with the goal to see a church planting movement among the rural people of the Western Amazon Valley. They are working on the RACE team with Bill and Sylvia Lee, Aaron being SC for Ribeirinhos (River People) in Amazonas. The team's focus is on reaching Ribeirinhos in Brazil by sending out teams of 2 (Journeymen, ISC and Brazilians)to remote Ribeirinho communities. The team will be concerned with developing the program and following through with training, logistics and supervision of teams. For more information about the RACE program go to our projects page.
Bill and Sylvia, and their two daughters, Rachelle and Rebecca, recently completed a term of service in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and are currently on Stateside Assignment. They will be returning to Brazil the first of this year, leaving Rachelle in the states to start college, and moving to Manaus, Amazonas, to work on a team with Aaron and Tiffany Epps, to reach the Ribeirinhos (River People) in Brazil. The team is working on a project that will focus on reaching Ribeirinhos in Brazil by sending out teams of 2 to remote Ribeirinho communities. The team will be concerned with developing the program and following through with training, logistics and supervision of teams. VICTOR AND JANICE NICKERSON The Nickersons have been serving in Brazil for 20 years. They live in Boa Vista, Roraima. They were appointed to Brazil as church planters and continue to serve in that capacity, but with added responsibilities. Victor is the Strategy Facilitator for the Western Amazon Valley. He works with each Brazilian Baptist State Convention and 25 IMB missionaries in six states of the Amazon Valley. The Strategy Facilitator (SF) responsibilities keeps them traveling throughout our six states as well as to other areas of Brazil. As part of the SF responsibility they serve on the Brazil Strategy Team (BST). They also keep busy with the Florida Baptist Convention and World Wide Church Planter (WWCP) partnerships. Visit our partnerships page for more information about these partnerships. Our local church planting ministry is with church starts with Guyanese people (English speakers) and in the new neighborhood called Brigadeiro. You can read more about this on the Ministries Page and there are prayer needs on the Prayer Requests page.
On a personal note: Our two children, Karrie and Tory are both married. Karrie and Michael are living and working in Gainesville, Florida, and study online with New Orleans Baptist Seminary after being flooded out of New Orleans by Katrina. Michael is minister of praise and worship and Karrie is preschool director at North Central Baptist Church. Karrie also works at Shands Hospital. Tory and Gilianny are living in Boa Vista, Roraima. They work with the Florida Baptist Convention Partnership. Gilianny recently graduated from the Federal University with a degree in Biology.
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