Wes & Cynthia Palla2023-05-19T13:34:50-05:00

WES PALLA FAMILY

SERVING IN BRAZIL SINCE 2014

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Wes Birthday 11/24
Cynthia Birthday 05/16
Wes & Cynthia Wedding Anniversary 09/01
Mia Birthday 11/22
Mahaela Birthday 05/15
Mariella Birthday 06/23
Michael Birthday 10/17

Wes and Cynthia Palla are missionaries serving in São Paulo, Brazil. They have been married for nine years and have three daughters:  Mia, Mahaela, and Mariella.

Upon graduating from Bible college, they spent two years working with Missionary Kevin Wynne in Mexico City. They worked in various ministries there and also helped to plant churches in South America. After their time in Mexico, they returned to the States to raise support for Brazil. Upon completion of deputation, they moved to São Paulo, Brazil, in the spring of 2014.

During the last two years, they have helped to plant churches in several South
American countries, learned Portuguese, and made yearly trips into the Amazon Basin to evangelize unreached people groups. In the summer of 2016, they founded the Maranatha Baptist Church of Guarulhos, Brazil. Their prayer is to see God build His church there in Guarulhos and to see it become a pattern church involved in starting scores of other churches across the city of São Paulo and the nation of Brazil.

Their long-term goal is to see the people and churches of Brazil grow beyond being missionary “receivers” and become missionary “senders.”

Ministry Goals Moving Forward

Locally:

  • Soul winning and discipleship
  • The growth and grounding of Maranatha Baptist Church, Guarulhos, Brazil
  • Eventual Bible institute to provide doctrinal and practical training

Nationally:

  • Send out pastors, preachers, and teachers
  • Continue Amazon outreach, using medical/dental clinics to get the Gospel into tribal areas
  • Strengthen the churches in the Amazon Basin

Internationally:

  • Send out missionaries to other Portuguese-speaking countries (19)
  • Continue to assist in planting churches across our continent (12 churches to date)

First Baptist Church of Hammond
fbchammond.com
507 State St.
Hammond, IN  46320
(219) 932-0711

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55(11)3428-2597
(219)334-5148
75 Foxfire Lane
Charleston, WV 25312
Rua Praia de Itamaracá Qd. B8, Lt. 18
Vilas do Atlântico, Lauro de Freitas BA
42708-360
 wesleypalla@fbmi.org

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Wes and Cynthia Palla Prayer Letter: A Great Closeout to Summer

Wes and Cynthia Palla Prayer Letter: A Great Closeout to SummerThank you so much for your faithful prayers and financial support of this ministry. It is a wonderful thing to see God working here in Salvador, Brazil. Let me get right into updating you on the work here.

Transition Time

As some of you already know, the missionary family that we have been partnered with here since the start of the work, the Leland Johnson family, has been led of the Lord to transition back to the U.S., due in large part to ongoing health difficulties with Mrs. Johnson. These are some of the Lord’s choicest servants, and we will miss them dearly. The Lord knit our hearts from the very beginning of this endeavor, and it has been a great privilege and a tremendous blessing to work together with them. They were not just our ministry partners, but our dear friends, and I thank the Lord for the opportunity He gave us to work together.

Evangelistic Conference

The Lord blessed in a tremendous way during our Evangelistic Conference. Missionary Ed Johnson preached the Gospel every night to a packed house, and each night we had hands raised for salvation. The first night of the conference, we had over 140 people in attendance! Over the entire 3 nights, we welcomed over 50 adults as first-time visitors. From that conference, we have had a handful of families begin attending regularly, so we praise the Lord for good growth. Our church people did an excellent job of inviting people, bringing visitors, welcoming newcomers, working in the children’s church and nursery, and keeping everything running smoothly.

Saturday Boys’ Club

About six months ago, one of the newer men in our church approached me about his desire to start a Saturday afternoon boys’ ministry for boys ages 9-16. He had been a participant in his youth in a similar ministry, and he had a burden to see boys taken off the street and given a solid spiritual foundation. So began the planning and preparation to launch this new outreach near the end of January of this year. This ministry has been immensely successful already. We have anywhere from 15-25 boys here every Saturday memorizing Scripture, doing Sword drills, hearing a Bible lesson, as well as other activities. Not only their ability but also their desire to learn the Word of God has been beyond my expectations.

However, it isn’t just that they are showing up and participating; what they are learning is producing a change in them. One of the teens approached me about needing to be baptized. He has already signed up for our discipleship course. Just this past week, two more of the boys in the program expressed their desire to follow the Lord in believer’s baptism. Several of these young men have given a testimony during testimony time in church. It’s just amazing to see what the Word of God and solid Biblical training are doing in the lives of these young men. I am already praying for the Lord to call several of them into full-time ministry, and I truly believe He will.

Closing

Please pray for us as the work continues to move forward. We have new families that need discipled, new workers that need trained, and, of course, there is the ever-present temptation some will have to deal with of whether or not they will stay faithful and be grounded in the Word or if they will drift back into what their life was before. We love you, and we appreciate your support of this ministry. We are blessed to represent you here. May God continue to use you to reach others where you are.

Declaring His glory,

Wesley Palla
Psalm 96:3

April 3rd, 2023|Tags: , |

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