Grandfather Mincaye

I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers... ~ Romans 9:3

More than 64 years ago a tremendous tragedy happened in Ecuador. Five young missionaries were reaching out to the Waodani (also called the Auca) people of the Amazon River basin. For a great number of reasons - namely the violent nature of the Waodani people, the invasion of their space by the Shell Oil Company, and a terrible lie told by a man named Mincaye - these five missionaries were murdered on a river bank in 1956.

But the story does not end there, the wives and sisters of these five men continued to reach out to the Waodani people and soon saw the conversion of many of them, including Mincaye, who became like a father for Nate Saint's son, Steve Saint, who has spent his life as an incredible missionary aviation pioneer.

I am not an expert on the Waodani people, but I have heard that they did not have a title for grandfather because Auca men just did not live that long. Mincaye was one of the first to change that; because of the violence brought through the cross of Christ, and the violence at Palm Beach in the Amazon, the love of God to make peace, and the perseverance of God's saints Mincaye found life in the midst of so much death.

Grandfather Mincaye died today and I cannot imagine the reunion between him and Nate Saint and Jim Elliot and Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming and Ed McCully and Elizabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint and many others. What rejoicing they must have had!

So beloved, on this somber and yet glorious day, I want to ask you a few things:

1. Would you be willing to die so someone else could go to Heaven? At least one Man has died for you, maybe many more, will you resolve in your heart today to make someone's eternity more important than your life?

My three oldest and I in
2016 with a real Waodani spear

2. Will you take the gospel to a lost and dying world? The deaths of those five missionaries sparked a missionary movement that cannot be quantified on earth. So many missionaries have directly attributed the events of January 8th, 1956 to how they arrived on the missions field. It was certainly at the forefront of my mind when I traveled farther down the Amazon near Manaus to preach Christ to another unreached people group.

3. Will you pray for missions in the Amazon region and elsewhere? The Waodani people had their first martyrs in 2015 as they sought to evangelize their neighbors, "The Downriver People". The work of world evangelization is far from finished!

We speak of the second coming of Christ, half the world has never heard of the first. ~ Oswald J. Smith.

4. Will you forgive your enemies and pour out love on them that they may be saved? I cannot fathom the courage and love required of women like Elizabeth Elliot and Rachel Saint to take the gospel to the very people that deprived them of their loved ones. But the reward has been great, and the testimony continues.

5. In memory of so many witnesses who have gone before, who expected great things from God and attempted great things for God, will you continue to publish the peace of Christ to the world?

May there be many more like Mincaye in the Kingdom of Heaven, who were liars, murderers, sexually immoral, but who are washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God!

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. ~ Romans 10:1

Portuguese Gospel Tract

We have recently moved, the hardest part was leaving our wonderful church and the work they were doing in Brazil. We went through much translation effort and design to make sure the following tract was biblical and accurate. Now that our new church is going to Haiti instead of Brazil, we want to make sure that this Portuguese tract is preserved and made available to others doing work in Portuguese speaking nations.

This tract is based on the American English "Pop Quiz" tract. Either tract is free to use in its entirety without permission. Any edits must be approved prior to printing/distribution.

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Pop Quiz

Verdadeiro ou Falso
1. Eu mantenho Deus em primeiro lugar no meu coração.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
2. Eu não tenho adorado (venerado) Dinheiro, Natureza, ou Imagens.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
3. Eu nunca usei o nome do Senhor em vão.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
4. Eu sempre honrei o domingo - dia para descansar.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
5. Eu sempre escutei meus pais, sem falhar.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
6. Eu nunca senti ódio em meu coração.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
7. Eu tive apenas pensamentos puros sobre pessoas bonitas.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
8. Eu nunca roubei nada.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
9. Eu sou verdadeiro em toda declaração que eu faço.

Verdadeiro ou Falso
10. Eu nunca desejei as coisas dos outros.

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Instruções

(Por favor, leia o outro lado primeiro)

Conte cada afirmação “verdadeira”.
Cada “verdadeira” recebe 1 ponto.

Converta sua pontuação em porcentagem dividindo por dez.
100% = Passou            90% ou Menos = Falhou

Se você não conseguiu, não vai impedi-lo de se formar para a série seguinte, ou de ganhar seu certificcado; este é o exame de admissão para o céu, uma nota negativa é a sua condenação ao inferno.  Estas perguntas são baseadas nos 10 Mandamentos, o fundamento do julgamento da justiça de Deus.

Seu destino está escrito na Bíblia quando diz; “Não sabeis que os injustos não herdarão o reino de Deus?  Não se deixe enganar ; nem os devassos, nem os idólatras, nem os adúlteros, nem homens que praticam a homossexualidade, nem os ladrões, nem os avarentos, nem bêbados, nem maldizentes, nem roubadores herdarão o reino de Deus.”

Pergunta Crédito Extra

Verdadeiro ou Falso
Deus enviou o Seu único Filho para morrer na cruz por meus pecados, para que eu possa ser perdoado. O que é exigido de mim para receber esse perdão é se arrepender de ( por sua vez, a partir de ) meus pecados e confiam em Jesus Cristo para foi os meus pecados e entregar-me ao Céu.

Resposta: Verdadeiro

Se você se Arrepender de seus pecados e Confiar em Jesus Cristo ressuscitado, o verso seguinte será verdade para você : “Mas vocês foram lavados, mas fostes santificados, mas fostes justificados em o nome do Senhor Jesus Cristo e pelo Espírito do nosso Deus .”