Evangelistic army brings Jesus to World Cup

Written by Super User 10 Jul 2014

BRAZIL - It's another match day in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and thousands of fans have arrived to support their teams in the World Cup.  The government reports 600,000 foreign tourists visited Brazil this month. Many come from Muslim countries like Algeria and Iran, where they may have never heard about Jesus.  It's a unique opportunity to help them to hear the Gospel message. That's why churches and ministries including Brazil's Bible Society and Youth With A Mission (YWAM) have deployed a small army of evangelists to the streets and parks of the city. They're enthusiastically greeting soccer fans and sharing the good news of salvation.  100,000 copies of the Bible with individual covers for each host city of the World Cup have been printed and distributed.   One fan, who had just experienced a personal tragedy, found a sympathetic listener in Vaneide, a personal evangelist.  ‘This man had lost his wife in a fire and became blind,’ she recalled. ‘He stopped and talked with me for half an hour. I told him about Jesus and suddenly he said, 'Now I understand the way to the truth!' And at that moment he gave his life to Jesus.'