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Tia Beliza

Beliza Patricia is an amazing young lady. When she decided to follow Christ as a teenager, it was for good - no matter what! She entered our AME program and worked as a missionary in Bahia for a year. She spent months in the hospital caring for her mother with terminal cancer. She took on the responsibility of providing for her and her sister with tutoring when her mother was gone. They adopted their ten-year old brother, the son of her mother's previous husband, Kauã (no blood relation). She has visited several countries in South America and Europe, and speaks four languages. All this before the age of twenty-three. Recently she just graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering.

She loves teaching children about Jesus, having organized our VBS's the years after Lori Hagewood and Monica Newlin left João Pessoa. She also is the organizer and teacher of our FBS (Fun Bible School) on Sundays.

When the pandemic hit, the children's classes stopped, but Fun Bible School continued on Youtube. With her sister Bianca filming, she and Kauã have poured their creativity into video classes that have attracted children from Portuguese-speaking countries around the world. "Auntie" Beliza uses science and nature to share lessons about God and His will. They upload a new lesson each week.

Yesterday, Beliza took FBS to the next level: a version in English to reach even more children for Jesus.

Check it out:  

https://youtu.be/WSUq7xlXaqE


 

And please say a prayer for Beliza, Bianca, and Kauã, that God will continue to do incredible things through them and their faith!

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