Walls Going up for Ministry Center in Brazil

The pilings are in and the walls are starting to take shape at a new, more than $1 million ministry center that will serve the outreach efforts of The Back to God Hour in Brazil. The BTGH is the media ministry of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

Recently, BTGH leaders joined with its Portuguese ministry team and key members of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil to break ground for the state-of-the-art international ministry center in Campinas, Brazil.

"God has blessed The Back to God Hour," says BTGH  Director Bob Heerspink. "He has allowed us to do wonderful things in Christian media.”

The ministry center is being built on what had been an empty lot, tucked away on a quiet street in Campinas. Eleven years ago several church leaders and others envisioned that the international ministry center would be built on that hillside. Today their dream is becoming reality.

In 1969 BTGH began Portuguese broadcasting as a single radio program from the island of Bonaire. In 1999, BTGH began experimenting with production of Spanish television programming in Campinas.

The new facility will move BTGH into possible new cooperative partnerships with other ministries.

BTGH donors in North America have already donated over $900,000 in cash and pledges toward the new ministry center. The final goal is to raise the remaining $200,000 by the end of May in order to complete the ministry center by the fall of 2009.

You can view a video of the groundbreaking and see pictures of the event, as well as the architectural plans for the new ministry center at http://btgh.org/opportunity

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