Survivors

I dont know if there is any kind of description of faith like we find in the bible.
Hebrews 11 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

My life has been like a miracle this since the beginning.
I was born in a favela, a Brazilian type of slum. The medical colleague that have assisted in my mother’s delivering labor 44 years ago, said I would be abnormal, actually the only thing he said correctly. Actually I spent part of my childhood at the hospitals.
What to expect from a boy like this? Abnormal, poor and sick?

I say I am a miracle not just in the sense of the spectacular or supernatural healing , what could be reasonable, but I mean I am miraculous survivor. I have survived to the pressure of the society. The impoverishment and neighborhood.

Praise God since my earliest memories I could see myself involved in something different. Different in the church, school , university , at home.
Sometimes I see some of my old friends from the slums I used to live, on TV as murders or arrested. Many are already dead. Again I feel like I am a survivor. I have survived and resisted against the system.

I am a positive answer to those who don’t believe in the relationship between changing behavior/life styles and integral Christian education.. My two brothers got deeply involved with drugs for many years. They are not doctors or business people. Thankfully they eventually found Jesus. They are also survivors.

So what to do with this blessing?
Evangemed is one of these miracles. Chosen among thousands of people that met the World Methodist Evangelism director for preaching as a missionary and a Doctor.
The message is clear, word deeds and sings. Through Evangemed we reach were few preachers can go. Favelas, rivers, rural and urban areas. Educational places and political arenas.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.
I hope I can meet some of you soon on the mission field.

Next week I will go with 300 young people to a skumm for preaching the full gostel. Pray that we can impact that place with the power of God and find other Wilsons and other survivors.

Best regards
Your servant survivor
Wilson Bonfim