September 1, 2004

Dear Friends,

The summer Baptist Faith Missions conference was a blessing and very motivational. Richland Baptist Church at Livermore, Kentucky and their pastor, Glenn Archer, were most gracious hosts. Every detail was carefully planned to make the missionaries, pastors and all participants welcome and comfortable. Certainly they rolled out the best of Kentucky's hospitality and cooking, and the fellowship was delightful.

The messages were inspirational and encouraged each of us to keep missions in our hearts, on our minds and in our works of love. The mission reports from the churches at home, and abroad in Kenya and Brazil were reason to rejoice and praise the Lord. We were challenged to have the heart of God and share the
Gospel with every person on the earth.

Three New Churches

The first service at Riacho Doce was held on August 28. The mission team has been visiting and sharing the gospel door to door for weeks. Seventeen people had already professed their faith in Jesus and were being taught individually because there was no place for them to meet. The building was completed and all rejoiced to have a permanent meeting place for the new mission. The construction team was able to finish the building in four weeks of hard work.

August 30th, the construction team began the foundations for the building at Cidade de Deus. This is an area of very poor people and the gospel has been received well. God has blessed and there are consistently more than 150 people who attend the services and Bible teaching each week in the outdoors. Dr. Mark Miller met the need to purchase land and build a church building before the rainy season begins. As you read this report, their building should be ready. Praise God for the roof over their heads, out of the rain and sun; now they have a permanent meeting place. After weeks of prayer and of searching, we are closing a contract to rent a small warehouse to start the second mission church in Belém. The population in this city is one million and half.

Mission Team from Mt. Calvary Baptist Church

August 9-18 a team from Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Charleston, West Virginia (Bro. David Mitchell) came to Manaus for a mission impact. While here they saw over 250 people accept Christ. The Lord worked mightily through the lives of Pastor Mark, David, Justin, Lauren, Amber, Kelly, Courtney, Brad, Anne and Raquel. Each morning they drove out to a neighborhood where we've recently started a church and at the local school presented the gospel through drama and music. In the afternoons they walked the streets of the neighborhood inviting people for the service in the evening. In the evenings they led the service, where the gospel was presented clearly. They were at a different congregation every day. All were excited to have them and were impressed by how well they sang in Portuguese. They also participated in starting a new church at Santa Etelvina. It was a true blessing to have them with us. Our prayer is for God to mobilize a new generation of people whose heartbeat is passionate about being personally involved in missions at home and abroad.

As the Lord leads you, support the general fund to keep us missionaries on the field and give special donations marked "Paul-New Churches" to purchase and build meeting places for new churches in new areas.

Praise unto the Lord Jesus Christ,

Paul & Wanda Hatcher
www.churchplantinginbrazil.org

Church in Porto Velho, capital city of Roraima.