Sergio Danon - Testimony & Mission Field Stories - video Dailymotion

Chartridge Mission Church

#SergioDanon #IMJP #InternationalMissionToJewishPeople #Brazil #Evangelism #Christian #Outreach #Testimony #Mission #TrueLife #Stories #God #ChartridgeMissionChurch #chesham #thefriendliestfellowship #LearningTheBibleTogether  Sergio Danon is a Jewish Missionary working for the International Mission to Jewish People charity. Sergio flew in from Brazil to give his tear-jerking testimony and moving stories from the mission field. It was a night to remember, and Sergio hopes you'll share this recording far and wide to stimulate prayer and financial support for this most important work before us: reconciling precious souls to God.   Testimonies YouTube Playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLtfVhcCUFs55y-dPs5EwVi47TDI6611  Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.  We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.   Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.     Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH  The village Church with an international audience.  Support our work at Chartridge Mission Church:  Donations via Stewardship.org.uk:    https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20005300    Cheques can be made payable to Chartridge Mission Church and sent to the above address for the attention of Pastor Barry Kempson.   Recorded on Sunday, 1st February 2026.     Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.  www.Chartridge.UK   The Friendliest Fellowship.

Transcript

00:00High King of heaven, after victory won, May I reach heaven's joys, O bright and sun,

00:15Heart of my own heart, whatever before, Shall be my vision, O ruler of all.

00:32Well, thank you so much. It's a privilege for me to be here tonight.

00:37My name is Sergio Dannon, or Sergio Dannon, as you pronounce here in England.

00:43I'm from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. I'm with the international mission to Jewish people.

00:49And it's a blessing for me to share with you.

00:53Today, what's going to happen, I'm going to share my testimony, and then I'll also tell some stories from the field.

01:00So, I was born and raised Jewish, and came to faith, confessed Jesus as when I was 20, and I'll give you details about that.

01:09Okay, and since then, that's what I have been doing, witnessing to my Jewish people.

01:15Well, as you can see, my name is Sergio Dannon, and that was how I was when I was just a new baby.

01:27I was born in 1968. My father, who was a professional photographer, he was the one who took this picture and developed that.

01:41And basically, I was raised in a Jewish home.

01:44You know, I went to Jewish school. You can see my picture there.

01:47Maybe I was like four or five years old there. It was a celebration of the Feast of Hanukkah, which is one of the traditional festivals close to Christmas, usually.

02:02When I was 13, I had my Bar Mitzvah.

02:07One thing that is important for you to tell, you know, my father was born Jewish.

02:13My mother, she was not. She converted to Judaism before getting married to my father.

02:22And it is interesting because when my parents, they decided to get married, her father was Catholic.

02:31And they said, no, no, we're just getting married, not religious wedding.

02:37And he said, no, no, they're gods, our gods.

02:41So you need to convert to Judaism.

02:44So that's what she did.

02:45She went through a whole process for years of studying in Judaism throughout the whole time that they were dating.

02:52And her conversion was so much recognized that her conversion was signed by the great rabbi in Israel.

03:03So it was really legitimate, her conversion to Judaism back then.

03:10And that's funny because when she got married, my grandmother, my Jewish grandmother,

03:16she would say that my mother was the most Jewish daughter-in-law that she had.

03:22Because she was exactly the one who would light the candles and follow all the traditions,

03:28which the ones who were born didn't care much.

03:32So that's exactly how I grew up, you know, even having grandparents who were Catholic,

03:37I was really raised in Judaism.

03:40And the things that when I had my Bar Mitzvah, all of you know what Bar Mitzvah is?

03:43Yeah, it's a Jewish moment when the boy goes before the whole community and before God

03:51and has a commitment to obey the Jewish law and is responsible of his sins before God.

03:59Okay, so religion speaking is considered an adult, even when he's only 13 years old.

04:07Okay, but two months before I had my Bar Mitzvah, my father, he left our home.

04:13Okay, he decided to separate from my mother. It was a really difficult time for us.

04:21And because of that, you know, my Bar Mitzvah was going to happen in March.

04:27It had to be postponed because the rabbi felt that was not a good moment for us to celebrate.

04:34Okay, so my Bar Mitzvah was going to happen in March. It was postponed to July.

04:41So it was a mess in our family by that moment, especially because when we prepare for the Bar Mitzvah,

04:48you know, we memorize the Parashah, you know, the portion of the Torah that we're going to sing

04:56and has to be sang exactly precisely like that. And in another month, I had to memorize everything

05:03again because it would be a different portion. Okay, so it was harder also because of that.

05:09But it was a moment that my father, when he, I'm the oldest from three sons, you know,

05:16one brother and one sister, I'm the oldest one. And when my father, he decided to go away from home,

05:25you know, he came just to me, you know, as a firstborn. And he said,

05:31son, you know, I'm going to go out of home and I want you to be helping your mother and help her,

05:38you know, take care of your brother and sister. I'm not going to tell them about that, you know,

05:46your mother and you will be the ones. So it was, he was putting a lot of responsibility over me,

05:52even before I had my Bar Mitzvah, when I was only 12. And my mother, she didn't get much help

05:59of the Jewish community. You know, she just felt that she was not being supported, you know, by the

06:09community. So she started to look for help in every kind of religion that you can imagine.

06:18Then her father, her Catholic father came to her and said, you know, daughter,

06:25I know that you're really seeking God. And, but if I were to seek God, I would go to this church.

06:34And he pointed to her, the evangelical church, you know, he said, no, I was born Catholic,

06:38I would die Catholic. But if I have to choose a church, go to this church. And that's where

06:43she started to feel really welcome.

06:49And then I had my Bar Mitzvah, you know, and usually when you have a Bar Mitzvah,

06:54you have a really big celebration, you know, at least there, back there in Brazil,

06:58like 40 years, 45 years ago, we would have a whole day of celebration. You know,

07:06we start in the morning, have a, after the service, have a breakfast, then had lunch,

07:14tea time and dancing the whole day would be really a whole day festival. But I didn't have reason to

07:22celebrate. So I asked my parents for a trip to Florida, Disney World, the dream of a teenage by

07:30that time. And that's what happened. I stayed two weeks in, in Florida. And when, when I returned,

07:40my father, he had come back home. So it was a delight for us, you know, and, and what happened,

07:47my mother, she felt like she was blessed, that God had already blessed her. So she said, okay,

07:56let's go back to our normal lives. And that's what happened. You know,

08:01we just returned our lives in the synagogue and everything back to normal. Until I was 16,

08:09my mother, she went, she had to go through a surgery. And she had a blood,

08:18how do you say, hemorrhagy, a blood loss. So, but the problem is that only found out three days later.

08:26And, and she had to take some transfusion.

08:30But the problems that they gave her wrong and contaminated blood.

08:38It was exactly during the time that, uh, HIV was showing up and she was really concerned about that.

08:49And then she says that when she received the blood, not the transfusions, she felt like her,

08:54like her, uh, like her, uh, bones were like breaking, you know, cracking.

09:02And she was on a semi-coma for a whole month.

09:07She could not react, but she could hear everything that the doctors were saying.

09:16And one day the doctors came to my father and they said, you know, uh, she's not going to survive.

09:22Only a miracle for her to survive.

09:27And the things that when she heard that, as I mentioned, she could not react.

09:32But when the doctors said that, she saw Jesus.

09:40It was by, by her bed. She saw him. He just smiled at her.

09:46And she said that because of that, she was not going to die.

09:49And usually I tell her, you know, a kid, you know, mom, you know, if, if, if Jesus shows up to me like that,

09:56and said, just take me, you know, I'm ready.

09:59But the things that she was not ready, she hadn't confessed Jesus yet.

10:04And what happened is that when she left the hospital, you know, when she woke up,

10:13the doctor said, okay, the miracle happened, but she is going to have several troubles in

10:18throughout her life, you know, sequels.

10:20Now she's going to have anemia, uh, hepatitis, several other problems, you know,

10:27they named like five or six diseases. And, and they said, she's never going to be healed

10:33from those diseases throughout her life.

10:36Well, they didn't know God because she was healed to each one of those diseases.

10:40Okay. She doesn't have anything. She's still alive today.

10:45And when she left the hospital, she came to my father and said, you know, we made a mistake.

10:49I had a, I started to have a relationship with God and I gave my back to him.

10:59And I want to go back to church.

11:02So there she went back to that same church that her father pointed to her some years ago.

11:09And, but she said to my father, you know, but I want you to go back with me.

11:14He told her, you know, I'm Jewish. I was raised Jewish. This is not for me, but I will,

11:21I'll be with you. I'll just sit by your side. I'll just cross my arms. I will not sing. I'm not

11:27praying. I'm not doing anything. Just be by your side. And she said, okay, at least you'll be with me.

11:34In three months, both of them were being baptized. That's how it all started. I was 16.

11:42Okay. Back then it was a Pentecostal church that they were going and, and they had a, a TV show

11:53and they were interviewed for the whole week. You know, a Jewish couple coming to faith in Jesus.

12:00And one of those days, one of my uncles, his, one of his brothers, one of his, um, one of my Jewish uncles,

12:12he saw the interview. You know, don't ask me what he was doing, watching a, a Christian TV show.

12:19But he said that he was just running through the channels. Well, back then there was not even cable

12:27in Brazil. So just live TV, you know, from, uh, and that weekends, one of my, uh, one of my cousins,

12:37she was getting engaged. And this uncle, he called my, my father and he said, you know, Rachel, she's

12:45getting engaged this weekend. And only Jewish people will be here. Since you're no longer Jewish,

12:53you're no longer invited. You're not welcome in my home. His own brother.

13:02And, and he said to my father, no, but Sergio and Jacques and Denise, you know, myself and my

13:09brother and sister, they are still Jewish. They may come.

13:12And, and, and I told my, my father and said, you know, dad, uh, I don't believe as you believe,

13:21but I respect your decision. I've, I've seen changes in your life. So where my parents are not

13:27welcome. So we are not, so we are, we are not, so not going to, to her engagement. So for five years,

13:35the family stopped talking to us. The only person that would talk to us as my Jewish grandmother.

13:42We would go to her home for the Jewish festivals. And we would be by the corner of the living room.

13:51No one will say anything to us, just my grandmother. Maybe just a good evening. And that was it. And they

13:58would not talk to us the rest of the night. So that's how it happened for, for five years.

14:06Until when I was 18 years old, when I was 18 years old in Brazil, we are obligated to draft

14:16into the army. Okay. And I didn't want to serve at the army, but you see that there I am.

14:27My mother, she told me, you know, son, you don't want to serve the army. Just go to church and pray and

14:34ask God to deliver you from the army. I said, okay. Sounds like a plan, you know. So I went to the

14:44church and I came before God and I said, no, Lord, if you deliver me from the army, I will believe

14:52that Jesus is the Messiah. You know what happened? I learned my first lesson that with God, there is

15:00no bargain, you know. You cannot believe in Jesus in exchange of something. I had to serve the army.

15:12And it was exactly in the army that God worked in my life.

15:18There was a guy in my platoon that he was a Christian. His father was a Baptist pastor.

15:25And he was such a peaceful man that his peace disturbed me. I'm not sure you have ever seen

15:37this kind of thing, you know, someone so peaceful that you cannot have peace because he is so peaceful.

15:44And one day I turned to him and asked him, you know, Zambrati, how is it possible for you to be

15:51so peaceful? And he turned to me and he quoted Proverbs 15, verse 1, that the soft answer turns

16:00away wrath. And I said, okay, he can do it. I can do it. But can we have peace without God? No.

16:11And I tried so hard. I couldn't. And I even thought, well, the Jewish Bible doesn't say anything

16:21about Jesus, you know. But by that time, I was being prepared to be an officer in the Brazilian army.

16:32And we finished the first training in December. The second term had to be in July. And during this time,

16:41we were still in debt with the Brazilian army. So we could not get a job because of that.

16:48And I was studying at university at night. And during the day, I was by myself at home.

16:55When my parents went to work, my brother and sister went to school, I started to read the Bible in secret.

17:03I didn't want anyone to know that. You know, the Jewish people, we are a prideful people, you know.

17:15And I didn't want anyone to know that I was that curious.

17:24And I would not read just the Bible. I would devour the Bible. I would read up to 70, 80 chapters

17:34a day a day. I remember one day that I took the book of Revelation. I read three times in a row,

17:43you know. So much curious I was. And when I read the Bible, because, you know, for you to read the

17:50Bible, the whole Bible in one year, you need to read three chapters a day. I was reading up to 70,

17:5680 a day. So I read throughout the Bible several times. And that was not enough, you know. I was not

18:06only reading, but I started to study the Bible. I started to see those numbers on the right of

18:12reference. And I started to compare the passages, you know. I really started to study the Bible.

18:18And after those six months, you know, I could not deny that Jesus is the Messiah. So I finished my

18:33training at the army. I met my friend again. I never told him or anyone that had read the Bible.

18:38But suddenly, you know, I finished the training at the end of July. And on Friday, two days later,

18:50I asked my parents to go to church with them. In two weeks, I was being baptized. It was back in 1988,

19:01I was 20 years old. So right now I'm almost 58. So it's been almost 38 years now that I'm serving the

19:13Lord. And that's when I started to, one year later, that's when I met this American pastor who was

19:21working in Brazil, who was a missionary to the Jewish people. That's when we left that

19:27Pentecostal church that my parents were. And I met this missionary and he started to train me

19:37on witnessing to the Jewish people. I was 21 years old. So I'm really evangelizing my people for 37 years

19:46now. That's about the time, one year later, that's exactly when our relatives, they start to talk to us

19:54again. Because on the same day that I was baptized, my sister, she was also baptized. When she saw me,

20:01you know, taking the faith step, you know, she decided the same thing. And that's when I think

20:11the mind of my relatives, you know, my uncles and aunts, they say, okay, maybe if we confront

20:20Joseph, my father and my mother, they are by themselves, maybe they will quit. But after they

20:27saw that myself and my sister, they also taking this faith in Jesus, I think they thought, okay,

20:36there's not much that we can do now. So they made an agreement with my family, you know, okay,

20:43we will talk to you again, but don't mention Jesus to you, to us. And I said, okay, we don't need to

20:51mention. Now that they are the ones who ask about Jesus. And throughout these years, you know, these 37

20:58years that have been witnessing them, I saw a couple of aunts that confessed Jesus, a couple of uncles also

21:08who confessed Jesus. My grandmother, my Jewish grandmother, she was 93 years old when she confessed

21:15Jesus as well. My father's mother. It's so much interesting her testimony because she was always

21:28the kind of really active woman. On her 80s, you know, she would take the bus and she would go everywhere.

21:36But she had a problem with diabetes and she had to remove her thumb. So she stopped really

21:46walking as she used to walk. So mostly she remained home. And my father, he started to feel

21:53concerned about her salvation. So maybe she'll die soon and I need to present her the gospel. And then

22:00she turned to her and said, mom, you know, uh, I'm really concerned about you and I want to show you

22:07who Jesus is. And so he started to present the gospel and she started to laugh at him.

22:15And mom, I'm serious. No, don't laugh at me. I'm talking about our, our Messiah. And, and she turned to

22:23him and said, son, I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing because I read, believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

22:31And, and I said, how come? Why, why you didn't never mention that? And she said, well, because

22:37uh, I, I saw how, how much trouble our family was when you came to believe. And I didn't want to cause the

22:46same trouble, you know, but I believe so. And on that day, she prayed with him, uh, to confess Jesus.

22:53Uh, and, and so we saw many in our family also come to the same faith. So, so it's something that

23:01has been a really encouragement to us. Well, and then that's when my, my church, I, I'm at the church

23:09that I, I, I, I pastor also, uh, it uses to be a synagogue. The, the missionary who, who introduced me

23:20to Jewish evangelism, he, he used to visit that synagogue. And that's how, when we, we met him,

23:29you know, he didn't have a place to worship. He, he wanted to have a place to put the Jewish,

23:35he came to faith through his testimony and he found this, the synagogue that had been closed.

23:45Before that I was, we were meeting on Wednesday at my parents' home and Saturday and Sunday at his

23:54associate pastor's home. So on, on Saturday I was the youth leader and, and that's where I also met my

24:04wife. My wife, my wife, she is, she, she, she were the niece to his associate pastor. He was Jewish,

24:12although my wife, she's not Jewish. Her, uh, his wife, you know, it was my mother, my wife's, uh, aunt.

24:23So that's how I met my wife. We got married 34 years ago.

24:28And she's a blessing of my life. You know, that's, she, she confessed to Jesus when she was five years

24:38old. She grew up, you know, in faith, you know, and in the beginning, she not, not really wanted me

24:44to be a missionary. I didn't want to be a missionary, but when God called me, you know,

24:49she, she was really battling with that. But we are so blessed that we have this, this is our

24:58beautiful family. On the left, you see Bruna. Bruna is my daughter-in-law. She's married to Israel,

25:06my oldest son, he's 30. And we, Benjamin is our first, first grandson. Yesterday he just turned one

25:15year and a half. My youngest son, Gabriel, and myself and my wife, Alexia. Okay. So it's, uh,

25:27it's been a blessing. My Israel, he's also a pastor. Um, although it's not his main job, you know,

25:34he, he works for Deloitte, but he's also, uh, a pastor. He is, and Gabriel, he, he plays the drums

25:44and he works with social media, you know, he, he loves being the camera as Andy. So it's, uh,

25:51it's a blessing for, to, to know that my family, my whole family is really involved

25:56in ministry. You know, it's something that, uh, I didn't understand why it's such a blessing,

26:02you know, because sometimes we see so many ministers, missionaries, pastors, you know,

26:07that their family away, but it's a blessing to know that my, my family is really working

26:15in ministry. So you can be praying for us, you know, and be praying for my, my family,

26:23for our ministry. Okay. And since then, I mentioned, I've been working on Jewish evangelism for,

26:31for that many years. Uh, I remember when, when I had just started, you know, when I was 21 years old,

26:41the, this pastor, this missionary, uh, he used to, every weekend, I would go out with him

26:47to witness. The first time that I went with him, he would go to a park, you know,

26:51you use a megaphone, you know, those things that used in the past,

26:56and he would speak with that. And I remember the first time that he came and he took this megaphone

27:02and gave him my hand and he said, Oh, now it's your turn. And I said, my turn of what? What should

27:09I do? And so, did you read the Bible this morning? I said, yes, I did. Well, just say what, what,

27:15about what you read. So that's how I started this. If you need to meet me by that time, I was really shy,

27:25but God started to break all the hindrances, you know, to make me be where I am right now.

27:33Okay. So since I was 21, start to Jewish evangelism, but, but I started as a full-time missionary

27:4225 years ago with, with another organization. And five years ago, I, I started with IMJP international

27:51mission to Jewish people. And I'd like to share some stories with you, what has been going on,

27:57as I said, not only through my family, but what has been happening in Brazil.

28:04This is my father here on the right, Joseph, his name. But you see that man there behind bars. I,

28:14for safety reasons, I just give an alias. Okay. So usually I call him Yakov. Yakov is a Jewish man.

28:25His family came from, uh, Romania, part from Romania, part from Hungary, uh, to Brazil.

28:33And he's a Jewish man that the family, uh, left Europe for safety reasons and have been witnessing

28:40for him. I've been witnessing to him for the last two years. Okay. He has been facing really

28:48financial difficulties. He, he had a home in, in, in Rio. I said the head because he was expelled

28:57from his home for the militia. You know, he lived in a dangerous area and the militia put him out of his

29:04home. And he's living by favor in someone's home, a friend of his. So to help, you know, raise some money,

29:14this, this friend of him made a, a small store by, by the garage of his home. And he sell things, you know,

29:24just inside a really small market, his home. And he sells exactly through this bar. And when I visit him,

29:33I stayed usually one hour, they are standing, just talking to him. Usually I don't open the Bible,

29:39but I quote the Bible to him. I apply to situations that he's living. Okay. Uh, he has been not only

29:49financially, but has this leading office also with health issues. He has, uh, has a cataract that he

29:57needs to have surgery, but he has been postponing to do that. Okay. He doesn't have health insurance,

30:03so he needs to go through public, uh, hospitals in Brazil, which is not easy. And he has also been,

30:11been postponing. Okay. So I'd like you to ask people to be praying for Yakov, you know, uh, he, he,

30:20sometimes I feel like he's, he wants more companionship, you know, someone to talk because

30:25he's lonely, then really interested about Jesus. But sometimes he makes some much good questions

30:34and that show that he's so much open, you know, I think he's really open to know more

30:42about Jesus. And, and as times pass by, I think, and now he is like 76 is about to be 77 years old.

30:52So it's not getting much younger. And I really pray for him that he may confess Jesus.

31:00This one is another example of just happened though. Gabby, uh, throughout 20 to 25, she battle cancer.

31:08I was witnessing for her throughout this year.

31:13And we had just before the holidays, you know, uh, my last day of working on the, on December 19th,

31:24that's when I and JP, we, we closed for the holidays. And when I returned from my vacation, because the,

31:34I also took, uh, another week on the, on the 12th, January 12th, her son called me saying that she had

31:45passed on January, on December 31st. That broke my heart, you know, when, when her son told me that,

31:54I, I, I cried the whole day. And for a few days, I was just really crying for knowing that she had

32:01passed, but she was much more open than, than Yaakov. You know, she was, although she never confessed

32:09to me, Jesus, the last time that we spoke, she was so much open. And I, and I was praying to God,

32:17she's so close now. And, and her son, when he called me, he said, you know, Sergio, my mother,

32:29she had you in such high esteem. She loved you so much. She loved so much talking to you,

32:34the way that she spoke to her. And she didn't live in, in Rio, you know, she was,

32:39she lives in, in, in a, in a city south of, in the south of Brazil called Blumemau. So I would talk to

32:46her over, over the phone, over WhatsApp, sometimes video. And, and he, and he told me, you know,

32:57she really loved talking to you. You have no idea how important the times that you spoke to her,

33:03it was important to her. So you never know if she took the decision or not. She, she, if she prayed

33:10to confess Jesus, I'm not sure. I have an idea. When my last day of work was the 19th, he told me

33:17that she started to feel bad on the 20th of December. On the 26th, that's when she agreed to go to the

33:26hospital. And on the 31st, that's when she passed. So what happened in this time, only the Lord knows.

33:36But the good thing is that her son, Ricardo, you know, that's his real name. He, he's really open

33:46and he is willing to talk. So maybe I can just continue the, the study that I was doing with his

33:54mother. I continue with him. He's a Uber driver. He has a brother. He is autistic, level three,

34:04really hard kind of behavior. And he really is not a lot of help. I think he's in his mid thirties,

34:16Ricardo. So I think would be, he lacks, how can I say, a father figure.

34:29So of course, I cannot be his father, but I can, maybe I can give him some guidance,

34:34you know, the spiritual guidance as well. So would you be praying for Ricardo as well,

34:41and his brother Andrew? Um, so especially after I returned, because after I spoke to him, that's when

34:51I had to come here and then they have to, when I returned to Brazil, I'll be back to be talking to

34:57him. So I'd like to be also be praying for them. Okay. I'll mention later the materials from

35:05my organization. Now, uh, his story have, uh, documented here. Uh, that's the Herald,

35:11the magazine that we send to our supporters and his testimony is here. Okay. And, but I will tell

35:21you briefly about that. Uh, that's when this, this woman, this Christian woman, she contacted me.

35:27We have a, uh, a common friend who was a Jewish believer, who is a Jewish believer. And she asked

35:36me to, uh, sell officiate her wedding. The problem that she said, oh no, uh, my, my husband,

35:43no, my husband, my, my fiancee, he's Jewish. He believes that Jesus is the Messiah, but he doesn't believe

35:51Jesus is God. He believes he's just a man. Would you mind officiating our wedding and said, okay,

36:01well, that's two baby steps. Now let's start talking so that they can know you better.

36:09I started to witness to him. He was such a stubborn man. You know, he was really hard.

36:15My wife says that when she saw the way that he was behaving, because he was also not, not,

36:24not from Rio, he was really on the north of the country in the state called Acre in the, in the Amazon.

36:34And I would also meet him by, by video. And my mother, my wife, when she saw his behavior,

36:43he said, oh, this guy's so much stubborn. If I were you, I'd just already kick him off, you know,

36:49quit from him. And usually I told him, that's why I am the missionary, not you.

36:56And what happened in that is that we started studying the Bible. It was in the beginning of May

37:02last year. It was about the, the end of August. He confessed Jesus and he said, he confessed,

37:10he believed that Jesus is God, not only Messiah.

37:14And it was amazing. And then, then you see here in the, in the front page, exactly the picture,

37:21when I was officiating his wedding.

37:26And, and now I'm starting exactly discipleship with him.

37:30That's something, you know, that, a present, a gift that the Lord sent.

37:34You know, I've been working with international mission to Jewish people. We call it IIMJP for,

37:40for five years now. April 1st will be five years. He is the third Jewish man,

37:47in these five years in Brazil, that confessed Jesus. Okay. So it's a,

37:53some people, sometimes people say, well, only three. But, you know,

37:57it's one by one that we go. Jewish people, not easy to minister to. Okay. But we are seeing the work

38:09happen. We've seen them confess Jesus. Okay. Last year, so to give an example, the kind of work

38:17that we do, IIMJP, we do streets, outreaches. This is the outreach that we did last year. We had,

38:26here we have like 15 people, but sometimes we had from 15, uh, from 20 to 25 people

38:34on the streets, helping us throughout the week. You see here in the front, my, my son Gabriel,

38:40he is always there to take the pictures. Last year, we had like 10 Jewish contacts on the streets

38:46during, throughout the week. And the, from those 10, I've been visiting one more regularly.

38:52It's this man. Uh, I'll call him David is the one in the middle. He's an Israeli

39:01who he has been living in Brazil for the last seven years.

39:04And he's homosexual. You see this guy that is with him, that's his, uh, mate, you know,

39:13they live together. And even being homosexual, you know, he's open to know more about Jesus.

39:21He, the guy that lives with him, he, his mother was a Christian. He was raised going to church.

39:31Okay. So he already knows the gospel. And I've been able to witness to them.

39:39Uh, David, he, he's so much open and, and, and he's asking, Oh, how do you deal with homosexuality?

39:52And, well, it's a sin. The same way that adultery is a sin. We tell people not to commit that anymore.

40:04After you come to believe, you're not supposed to be doing that.

40:08And I even told him about, uh, uh, a friend of mine, he was a Jewish believer. Also, he was a homosexual

40:18and he confessed Jesus. And he, he, he started being homosexual when he was 15 years old.

40:26He came to believe, confess Jesus when he was more than 70 or so, or he was practicing homosexuality for 55 years.

40:38And I told him, of course, you cannot change your mind. You know, that you're thinking about that for 55 years

40:47in a moment, of course, you still have battles, but after he came to faith, he no longer practiced homosexuality.

40:59So it's something that after you confess Jesus, it's something that you have to, to deal with.

41:04It's not okay to be practicing that. And, and, and I've been talking things like this to, to them,

41:13and they're still willing to talk to me. Okay. So pray also for David and Saul.

41:21Uh, they are the ones that are bringing, getting closer to me, you know, uh, in this witnessing process.

41:30And I really believe that God, you know, on his sovereignty, he can really work in their lives

41:38in such a way that they don't want to live together and maybe just be brothers in the Lord. Amen.

41:49This year, we're going to have an outreach. I'll be co-leading an outreach in the Boston area.

41:55We'll be from July 26th to August 1st. I just met the guy that will be co-leading with me. He's a

42:03Korean guy. He started to be a missionary to Jewish people with us about two years ago.

42:10So we've been mentoring him also to teach him how to do evangelism. And, uh,

42:18uh, it's a really good time for us also because in Boston, there are many Brazilian people who live in

42:25Boston. Boston is the second biggest Jewish population in the United States. That's in Boston.

42:32Okay. So I'll be contacting churches as well. I believe there are Jewish people,

42:37Brazilian Jewish people living in Boston as well. So that God may guide me also to those people.

42:44We have missionaries that we becoming from other countries that we have from Ukraine,

42:50from Israel, they're Russian speaking Jewish people. So they be witnessing to those, uh, Russian

42:57speaking Jews also in, in, in Boston. Okay. So our heart is really to reach out to my Jewish people.

43:05And you see that, uh, I just gave you a few examples of how things are happening in Brazil.

43:13If you want to contact me, you know, I'm really willing to be in touch with each one of you.

43:20My email, my phone number, and another thing that I ask you to copy my phone. Now we start in March,

43:30I will start to send by WhatsApp prayer requests on spot. Okay. Once a week, I'll be sending,

43:38for example, now I'm going to visit Yaakov. Would you be praying for me so that he can open his heart?

43:44So I'll be asking you just on the moment that I need your prayers, once a week, I'll be sending

43:51the prayer requests and also responses from the requests that I gave. Okay. So if you want to receive

43:57this broadcasting, I need you to save my phone number at your cell phone, because either way,

44:05if I send and the phone number is not saved in your phone, it'd be considered spam. Okay. So if you

44:13really want to receive that, you can just save my phone number in your cell phone, and then you,

44:19you put your WhatsApp number here, and I will know that you're willing to receive that, and I will

44:25send this information to you. Okay. And I, even if you see here, for example, talking about my, uh,

44:34one offering gift, you know, I really, of course, I need your gifts, but not my point. I really would like

44:43to each one of you to fill this card. Okay. Because you, even if you never send me a gift,

44:53you'll be able to be helping me with the most powerful weapon that you have, your prayers. Okay.

44:58And I really mean it. Okay. So that's my will that you all fill this out to be praying for me.

45:05Well, basically, that's it. I think I spoke, uh, enough already. And it's a, a real privilege,

45:15you know, for me to, to, to be here tonight. Uh, and I really appreciate the presence of each one of

45:24you and, and for your prayers for me as well. Okay. Thank you so much.

45:37Thank you so much.

46:07Thank you so much.

46:37Thank you so much.

47:07Thank you so much.

47:37To treasure the wilds High King of heaven after victory won

47:49May I reach heaven's joys of bright and sun Heart of my own heart whatever before

48:05To be my vision, O ruler of all

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