A Conversionin Brazil
A Conversion by Sadi G. Profes
(Sadi is a Jewish believer in Brazil who is a product of earnest missionary endeavor. His conversion shows that Jews can be reached for Christ. He is a fluent speaker and witness, and an effective national worker who recently visited the States.)
Please forgive my mistakes in English. I speak Spanish, Portuguese, and bad English. But I am very thankful to the American people, for I am a direct result of missionary work. American Christians sent a missionary to my home town of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and that missionary started a Baptist church a few blocks from my house.
I met two young men from that church who were interested in me and they gave me some tracts and preached the gospel to ne. They invited me to come and attend the services of the church, so I went. This was the first time in my life to attend services in a Baptist church. I knew nothing about this kind of church, for most people in my country are Catholics, and I didn’t know the difference. I felt that if a person was not a Jew, he was a Catholic.
For the first time in my life I went to a Baptist church, and when I looked around, I saw no statues! The “priest” of that church was married, and so that really was different to me. But I discovered that the people like me, for they said, “Oh, so you are a Jew! We like Jews.” This was different to me also, because I had found that a lot of people just didn’t like Jews.
When I went to that church, I could feel the love; and that love of Christ held me, and made me stay in that church for six months. I started to learn the Bible, and I learned about the Messiah, that Jesus is the true Jewish Messiah…and I accepted Christ as my own personal Messiah when I was fifteen years old.
I am now thirty-two years old, and for eight years I have been a missionary with the International Board of Jewish Missions. Let me ask you to pray for Brazil. We are having many problems now, and inflation keeps going up all the time. Four years ago I bought a house and financed the loan through a bank. At that time the cost of my house was forty million cruzeiros, in Brazilian money. Now, just four years later, I can buy a pizza for that amount! Does that make sense to you? I know that such a thing sounds strange to you here, but that has actually happened in my country and we have many other problems, as well. So I ask you to pray about this.
And as we serve the Saviour, we need help. Please pray for Brazil, because there are many thousands to reach. We have forty million people, and we have 150,000 Jews in Sao Paulo, unsaved Jews who need Christ. Pray for God to send more missionaries who can reach the unsaved. Thank you.
The Everlasting Nation
International Board of
Jewish Missions
Box 3307
Chattanooga, TN 37404