by Aleah Marsden | Oct 1, 2019 | General
Representing MPV (LBM) at The Magiolis have faithfully led Ministerio Pão Vivo (Living Bread Brazil) for many years. Pastor Magioli, our Executive Director, continues to mentor and disciple each of the church planters in Brazil. He also travels frequently to churches...
by Aleah Marsden | Sep 17, 2019 | General
Short term team from First Baptist Porto Alegre Over the past 15 years we have planted numerous churches among the poor in Brazil. More than this, we have established a Brazilian led and supported church planting movement. One of our partner churches in Brazil is...
by Aleah Marsden | Sep 3, 2019 | General
Torres is a coastal city in the far north of the southern most state in Brazil. We have been working in this city for several years. In the early stages of this church planting effort, we had to move locations multiple times which made growing the church difficult....
by Aleah Marsden | Aug 21, 2019 | General
Lack of adequate food, education, and medicine combined with exploitation and a fallen worldview together trap families in a downward spiral of hopelessness. While these may seem to be overwhelming obstacles, we at Living Bread Ministries have a proven track record of...
by Aleah Marsden | Jul 23, 2019 | Testimonial, Thailand
Phanatnikhom, Thailand Somchai was born in a broken family. He first met his mom when he was 15 years old. In his early years of life, he lived with his grandmother, then grew up in a Buddhist temple. He was involved in a gang and had to run away from home. He met...
by Aleah Marsden | Jul 9, 2019 | Testimonial, Thailand
Huatanon Ministry, Thailand Karom is 43 years old. He came from a family that did not have faith in Jesus. When he was 15 years old, his mom and dad separated, and he moved to Bangkok. Five years later, he was hired by a construction company in Singapore and worked...
by Aleah Marsden | Jun 25, 2019 | General
We believe in continued education as a vital piece of equipping our indigenous church planters. As many pastors know, one of the best resources for preaching and teaching the good news is a solid theological library. Unfortunately, for many of our church planters...
by Aleah Marsden | Jun 11, 2019 | Thailand
One of the great joys of our ministry is getting to support our church planters’ specific gifts and dreams for outreach ministry. In Thailand, and a couple of our church plants in Brazil as well, this has included free music lessons as a form of outreach. Not...
by Kristi Reaves | May 30, 2019 | Church Plant Updates, Church Planting, General, Thailand
There is nothing we love more than seeing church plants thrive and plant churches of their own. A recent example of this is taking place in Thailand at The Promise Church, led by LBM Thailand board member SomChai. SomChai has been discipling a man named Karom, who...
by Kristi Reaves | May 23, 2019 | Brazil, Church Plant Updates, Church Planting, General
Our comprehensive approach to church planting among the global poor works best when our church plants have a building to gather in rather than homes. Most of the people we minister with live in housing that is constructed from scrap materials and is very small. Often...
