Brief History:
We answered the call of God to return to the mission field in 2008, when we accepted the invitation from Rolland and Heidi Baker (Iris Global) to serve with their team in Pemba, Mozambique. Brian helped direct the Mozambican Bible School, while Lorena developed and grew a large children’s ministry.
After two years in Pemba, we felt God leading us to the heart of Mozambique where we could more directly disciple the many pastors of the Iris churches, known there as Comunhao na Colheita. For 7 years we taught pastoral training seminars and raised up national discipleship teams, which continue to this day.
Current:
Every week one or more teams are sent out, teaching one of our discipleship booklets to a 3-day gathering of pastors from a given district. (These can be found on the home page under “creser” and are free for anyone to download and use.) These leaders are also given materials so they can return to their districts and disciple their people. “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.” (2 Timothy 2:2). We continue to write ongoing discipleship booklets and oversee the teams and pastors through online chats, videos, etc. At the same time, we now have answered God’s call to live and minister in Asia with the same focus on discipleship.
Recently we felt the Lord asking us to get the Word of God into the hands of as many literate believers as possible in our Mozambican Comunhao na Colheita churches. There are thousands that can’t afford or even find a bible in their rural regions. Iris Global has worked hard to get audio solar bibles and printed bibles to many of the top leaders, but we are now working on getting small portions of the Bible printed locally in booklet form out to the regular church members who can read. This is affordable and simple to distribute with with help of the local district pastors and alleviates the corruption and delays we face at the ports when we import Bibles. Presently we are printing and distributing a booklet with the Gospel of John, Galatians, and Ephesians, costing us just $1.25 each.
