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Dear friends and family,

We are writing this letter out of the routine schedule of emails to let you know the AMAZING PROVISIONS of our God. We serve a wonderful God who has given us promises in His word and wants us to faithfully move forward claiming His promises. Please read the following and may all Praise and Glory go to our God who is faithful.

Since our arrival in Brazil we have been on the outlook for land on the river to serve as a base for our medical launch program. We have spent some time looking, driving all over the land that was on the river to find a suitable piece of property. Having launches and futures seaplanes, we needed a piece of land that could be easily accessed by road and was water front property to allow the boats and planes to be docked there. Our search never came up to anything worth while. We finally gave up the active search and decided we didn’t have time currently to continue looking. But we continued praying daily for God to open the door and make the right piece of land available.
Continue reading ‘God Provides Land’

“Ring-Ring”. I answered the phone about a month ago to hear a sweet voice speaking English with a heavy Portuguese accent saying, “Mr. Mills, this is the Brazilian Consulate in Miami. We are calling to inform you that the volunteer visas for you and your family to work in Brazil have been denied!”
I stuttered and stammered in disbelief. “DENIED! You mean… well what do you mean? What can we do now?” Here we were, already in Brazil, moving forward to help start the medical launch to reach the unreached of the Amazon region with the message of Christ’s imminent return. Here we were, Lina less than 4 weeks from delivery, our whole lives dedicated to helping this cause…. and our visas DENIED.
We prayed and prayed and asked the Lord what could be going on. We had seen His hand so clearly guiding and opening so many doors, how could this be happening? We decided to continue moving forward by faith, certainly this was just another tactic of the devil to discourage us from doing this great work for God. With faith and a whole lot of prayers I headed off to the US consulate to see what could be done.
It was a difficult situation we were in. Our baby would be born in Brazil to parents who had only a tourist visa. Our visas were to expire on the 10th of October, the last day that we could legally be in the country. With the baby being born in Brazil we would have to apply for US citizenship as a birth abroad and apply for a US passport for the baby, which would take at least four weeks. So we would be required to leave the country and return to the USA, but our baby would not yet be an American citizen with the ability to return. This was a problem! The kind US consulate representative heard us out and wasn’t sure what to do either. She said we should talk to the Brazilian Federal Police, who deal with all immigration issues. Continue reading ‘The Walls of Jericho | Brazil Medical Launch Update’

Dear Friends and Family,

Just a quick note to say we have a new edition to the Mills Family. Lucas David Mills was born on Tuesday, September 9 at 1:10 am at the Adventist Hospital of Manaus, weighing in at 7 ½ pounds and about 20 inches long. Thanks be to God, all went very well, with Lina only being in labor for a little less than 3 hours. Monday night a little after 10 pm she started to have some back pains. She tried to rest a while. Sometime around 11:20 she got in the shower. By the time she got out of the shower her contractions were coming at every 2-3 minutes. We rushed to the hospital and were not even there for more than 1 hour and 15 minutes before he was born! We came home on Tuesday and all has been going very well since. Continue reading ‘Unto us a child is born | Brazil Medical Launch’

I pray that this email finds you all wonderfully blessed and moving forward in God’s work. Truly the signs of the time tell us that we are in the last minutes of Earth’s history. What an exciting time to work for the Lord!

I am writing this email to inform you of an event that we will be holding here in Manaus, Brasil in November of this year. Lina and I are currently involved with helping restart the Luzeiro program to bring God’s love to those living on the Amazon river. Accordingly, this November 14 and 15 we are having our second annual Encontro de Voluntarios (Encounter of Volunteers). Continue reading ‘Brazil Medical Launch | GMI get together in Brasil’