UMUARAMA
MARCH 16-31, 2006

Journal of the Trip to the Southwest of Parana
Umuarama, Cruzeiro do Oeste, Nova Santa Rosa, Pato Branco, Marechal Rondon, Marechal Vivida and Cascavel
-By David Gomes (Interpreter)

 

Pr. Jeff Martin - Lecturer
Pr. David Gomes (Interpreter)
Pr. Gilson Silva (Trainee)

Visited 7 Cities: Umuarama, Cruzeiro do Oeste, Nova Santa Rosa, Cascavel, Marechal Rondon, Coronel Vivida e Pato Branco.

We held: 13 Services – Worship, Word and prayer for the annointing
3 Leadership meetings -
Umuarama - for the staff of the Local Church, plus the Mayor and his wife.
Cruzeiro do Oeste – Pastors City Concily and Students of the local semminar.
Pato Branco – Pastors City Council.
2 oppening classes for the Theological Semminar in Pato Branco
1 Adhonep (Full Gospel Businessmen) Inaugural Dinner as visitors
17 indivivual counselling sessions with the pastors and wives
Attendance – from the numbers we got from the churches, in the Services and meetings we had a total of around 5000. But, some 3000 were coming for a series of 3-4 meetings
7 couples of Pastors received some individual ministration, counsel, prayer and annointing.
7 congregations embraced Revival, and their Pastor want to get to know better, or already want to develop a relationship under an Apostolic network. Some will be coming to the next Fire and Glory in Belo Horizonte in July.
We ate some good picanha and pizza. Gained some weight and got introuble when we got home! Ha!

March 16th
Umuarama
Betel – Pr.Valtenir
Broascsasted service – intro on spiritual hunger & thirsty – 750 people – Jeff went on the pews to pray for the people in the back. Completely crowded. People wouldn’t fall for lack of space.I met David Quinlan and his band, Jeff and Gilson in the flight to Maringá.
Met Pr. Giovani (Jr.) and Rodrigo at airport.
Lunch at Pavan Churrascaria. They explaned to us about Pr. Valtenir, his posture, teacings, background, personal historu (judge) and of his church – Igreja Batista Betel de Umuarama.
We stayed at the Saving Hotel.
Visited with Pr. Valtenir and his wife Mrs. Elizabeth before the night service , and talked a little about his church and view points e his expectations for our ministration.
Fisrst night service – brosdcasted.
Weak worship. (Thursdays night service – Signs and Wonders). A few people on wheelchair.
Message – introductory to our ministry and aboryt
For the ones up front & went walking, laying hands & praying for the ones in the back, walking over the pews when necessary & having a better response in the back of the room where it was less crowded. The anointing filled the room where some space was less crowded. The anointing the place, people were crying & drinking it, but the space situation quenched it a little.
Jeff blessed everyone & dismissed them letting them know we’d visit the Chácara to see how we could arrange it there.
We had some refreshments at Rodrigo’s home with him & his precious wife Samantha, with her deep questions about the anointing & her pursue of scriptures, claiming that the Lord would reveal his face & presence to her as he did to Moses. She wanted to meet with his glory & was earnestly asking for it.

March 17th
Umuarama
Better worship with João Wesley – the night we didn’t fit everybody up front.
Pr. Valtenir took us to his house for Jeff to pray for his wife; she wasn’t feeling well, was depressed & feeling weak.
They told us about the pastor’s health problems due to complications after a surgery in his palato (his mouth), his time in IC & at Home (Care). How much she suffered through it all & never had the time to recover.
Jeff prayed for both of them; spoke life & health into their lives & a new time of anointing. When he Ws praying over Mrs. Elizabeth for a “new blow” of the Spirit in her life, a swift, but soft breeze blew through the window from behind Jeff & came from around both sides of him as the Spirit coming on her with a fresh blow.
Next, we went to the Chacara. A very nice place with 48km2, a big meeting room with a stage & pulpit, bathroom, kitchen, etc., where his sister-in-law lives with her husband (he is the keeper) in a house on the property. There is also a soccer court, a multi-function sport court, a playground, parking lot & a great deal of land left over.
We had lunch with Giovanni & Rodrigo at a restaurant.
After rest at the hotel we had the 2nd meeting. That night João Wesley (big, tall, funny guy) led the worship in a freer, more revived way & with revival, worship music. He told us on our last encounter at a pizzeria that he had worked for awhile with Gregory McNutt as a member of his band. He was also involved with his worship group in another church before he came to Umuarama & Rodrigo introduced him to Pr. Valtenir, who hired him for the job with a warning about not bringing this type of music & worship to his church.
Jeff preached on the anointing & how the Lord...

March 18th
Umuarama
Morning leadership meeting after praying for Elisabeth. Samantha couldn’t walk after the meeting. Her husband had to carry her home.
First service at the Chacara. Packed. About 600 people. Powerful.
Met pastor from Dourados that invited us to go there.

March 19th
Umuarama
Morning Service – at the Chacara. Beautiful, powerful, prophetic. Many given prophecies. 95% of the room was on the floor (the others were catchers, ha!). The church is experiencing revival and they’re very hungry now.
Night service – at the Church. Jeff aske d for testimonies. Samantha, the Pastor’s daughter, shared her life changing experience with the annointing. She revealed to the congregation how her heart was earger for more and that she had being asking the Lord to reveal His Glory as He did to Moses, for months then. Then, when she saw the annointing , she liked it, but resisted being “touched” herself in the way she was “seeing it happen”. Until she was touched in a prayer line in a leadership meeting and was laying there long after everybody was and couldn’t come for lunch at her fathers, because she wouldn’t be able to talk nor walk, until later that night. Pr. Mathias (secnd to Pr. Valtenir) shared how he had this couple for a counselling session and the guy was knowingly full of the devil nad, instead doing the usual thing of “counselling the devil” he did what Jeff had said about sharing the annointing and he laid hands on the couple and the guy fell with the annointing and stayed there for a while, unconscient. When he came back, he was totally transformed, completely changed and testifying his mind and heart were free. He also shared how he had had a strong experience with the Holly Spirit many years ago when the Lord told him to pray for his barren wife (He has two boys, 21 and 13) and had felt and fell in the annointing and never had it something alike again, even thinking that that was a once upon eternity type of miracle, until he was again touched and totally renewed in a momment. An english teacher came up to share that she was touched at the first night and that every night it got stronger, and that she has been in the annointing 24 hours since the first moment with gifts coming up strongly. Jeff kept on asking for more testimonies and a lady raised her hand in answer to it and he called her. The hole congregation looked at her, as they were sitting and she got up. Jeff kept on saying: here she comes, as it was taking a long time for her to come out from her place in the pew. When she finally got to the isle, as if she was coming forward, she fixed her bag, and suddenly turned the opposite direction and headed for the door. A moment of silence, every body wondering what was going on, jeff looked at me and asked: where is she going? And burst with laughter. The whole church bursted together. After a time everybody tried to pull themselves back together. The lady had left and the preacher would move on. But, then, David, the interpreter, cracked again in histerical, uncontrolled laughter, totally annointed, filed with joy. And so did the whole church for quite a while, until Pr. Valtenir, not acquainted with these “freedoms” and used to having control of everything, sweetly and aprehensively came to “help” David to calm down, as if he was having an attack of some sort. It was a strong breakthrough for that congregation, as that worked a little as the “fireman” to put the fire out. Jeff picked it right back in the Word on spiritual hunger as the element that would bring about revival to their lives, and closed (since the space, fully packed, wouldn’t allow for the prayer lines as in the chacara) with a vigorous word of prayer, and when he commanded them to “receive” with a strong clap of his hands, some people fell with the annointing in their very places, a lady was so strongly touched she was thrown back and over the pew and her husband helped her to fall on the seat where she laid until we left. The place got filled with the annointing and we let the Lord do His work, while the band played beautifully.

March 20th
Cruzeiro do Oeste - Comun. Evangélica
Pr. Júnior Visited, ministered and prayed for a woman that has cancer. Her friend asked if we could pray for her as she doesn’t know she has terminal cancer and the doctors have given up on her. The most powerful ministration on healing ever, on the right for both life and health in the Blood.
Lunch with pastor’s Junior team and family at his mother’s farm. Good fellowship.
Leadership meeting at night. Pr. Junior invited his semminar students and all the pastors from all evangelical churches along with his leadership for this meeting. Picanha at someone’s home after service.

March 21st
N. Sta. Rosa - Comvida
Pr. Geovani
Lunch at Burrows Home. Great German food.
Preaching at Comvida (Pr.’s Geovani). Some german hard heads in the congregation, but very hungry majority. Very beautiful with everybody drinking, crying, laughing and Jeff went to the ones that didn’t get up front to offer to pray for them. Even though too proud to get up, the power of the spirit worked to melt their ice front and touch their hearts.

March 22th
Marechal Rondon - Comviver
Pr. Gilson e Pra. Ba Ordination of a young pastor and his wife – Prs. Nilson and Debora (Pr. Geovani’s daughter). Small (young) and on fire church. The congregation was moved to see their Pastors beeing ordained (it was a surprise even for the Pastors). They went out to celebrate afterwards. Very precious couple with precious fruit.
We went straight back home to get a few hours sleep before travelling very early in the morning.

March 23rd
Pto. Branco - Chácara
Jeff’s Birthday!
Visiting Pr. Eliseo at his Farm. He was finishing a 3 days fasting for his church situation. Good talk about it. Lunch with his family and leadership. We were invited on the spot to preach at the openning classes for their semminar – one in the afternoon (mostly stableshid leadership) and on at night (some 35 young men and women preaparing for their calling as pastors, missionaries, etc.). Another class came by and saw Jeff preaching and sat at the door to listen for he second half of the class. After it we went out of the classroom to an inner meeting room for prayer and they all fell with the annointing and were there for a long time, crying, laughing, worshiping. When we left most of them were stil on the floor. Good conversation with Pastors Eliseo’s family at the table, before bed.

March 24th
Cascavel
Com. Ágape Pr. Aristides First night – intro to spiritual hunger & thirst. Some people came to tell Jeff of how things went after his last visit.
Even though it’s a good, joyous church, somehow there’s a chowking situation that causes everybody to be a little stuck.

March 25th
Cascavel
2nd night - Jeff had talked with the band about how to minister and we had a better worship. Jeff preached on the wells of Issac, spiritual inheritance, and spiritual hunger and thirst, endurance in God’s Will and porpuse and how to drive the devil nuts wth a bg smile, bringing them deeper in the spirit. The place was different from the begning: The worship, the prophetic dance, the receptivity to the Word and the laying of hands and prayer.

March 26th
Cascavel
3rd night – Deep, closing night. It was deep from the begning. Jeff went from Spiritual hunger to the realms of Discipleship – the multitudes, the Disciples, the 12 Apostles, the three closest ones, John the Beloved. Called the congregation to seek for the heart of the Lord in deep intimacy and closed under strong annointing praying over each one and prophesying over quite a few, including the Pastors.
- that afernoon we had lunch together and went to his home for a visit. He got real close to Jeff, shared deeply his hearts, manifested the desire to keep in close relation, bringing revival in and having his church used as an outpost to the area. He wants to have us go to Foz do Iguaçú to minister to some other pastors (some Jeff had met before, but not all) and their congregations.

March 27th
Pto. Branco
Rest. We had a little misunderstanding about our transportation and ended up leaving to Pato Branco later in the afternoon.
Dinner with Pr. Eliseo and his wife Pra. Clotilde at their place. Good time of restauration for them, as they’ve been through quite a battle moving out of the G12 setup and back to their original local mode. They’re paying a heavy cost with the loss of so many people due to this and another pastor that came to their church asking for help and after beeing integrated into the ministry, he left and openned another church a block down the road for Pr. Eliseo church.

March 28th
Colonel Vivida
Comunidade Evangélica– Pr. Carlos Batiston (cousin to Pr. Eliseo) & (forgot her name) Last year, when Jeff came to Pato Branco, he prophesied over these couples lives and ministry, not knowing anythng about them. They witnessed that everything had come to pass and that they could see it, but not quite understand the part where he mentioned about Ziclage. As we gather at their house before the service, he ministered to them on the spiritual principle of Ziclage and we were all amazed with the flowing of the Living Word and the Spirit the came upon us all. We were fed before the multitudes, and then, again with them.
At the church, the worship was great, deep and spiritual. The Pastor went up on the altar and ministered to the church and when they asked the band to finish so we could come up and preach, the spirit just took everyone the worship kept on with everybody claping their hands, singing, shoutting, praying in tongues and dancing around the building. It was thrilling.
Pr. Eliseo came up and preached out of the conversations they’ve had and Dan Duke’s CD on the four principles to open the Heavens: Worship, Word, Prayer, and Giving, and out of that he called the congregation to give their best for the missionary offering. Very good!
Pr. Carlos came up the altar to hug and kiss Pr. Eliseo and to make a public statement of their good relationship, against the gossip that they were not together anymore.
Jeff preached straight and forward on the subject, coming from the Wells of Isaac - our God given inheritance of Spiritual flow, to be redug and kept - through to the giants that have to be killed in the Promise Land of our lives (he named them. I don’t remember). He was clear and cutting. He came up with tremendous, on he spot, ilustrations, picking some people up to show how a line of gossip and doubting will start and how it will harm and destroy, while we let these giants to take over what the Lord has giving us and blessed us with and let the enemy fill our wells again.
He also used Pr. Dilson (Second Pastor at Eliseo’s) by covering his head with a veil, as under the law, and then stuck the cloth into his shirt, as receiving Jesus and the fullness of the Holly Spirit in our beeings, to be “pregnant” with his life, to bear fruit. With the moto of “what He can do IN you, He will then be able to do THROUGH you, he challenged them to get healed, get free, get filled and equiped to do the job and bear good fruit.
Throughout the whole preaching he weaved the understanding of the priority to have intimacy with Jesus in Worship, in knwoledge of the Word, in fellowshiping with Him daily, and then, reaching out and pouring it out to others, evangelizing and laying hands to share that same annointing they where, then, receiving.

We had lunch with Pr. Eliseo at “Sabor e Arte”, met the owner of the local newspaper & TV station. Eliseo introduced us & later explained that this man had asked him if he was back in Brazil for his vacations, or if he was living part-time here & there; there was gossip in town that he had moved to his “mansion” in Miami. We also met, while Eliseo was showing us the city from a hill, a man who had been his teacher when he was young. Whom, later on, when Eliseo stopped being a doctor (anesthetist), said he was crazy, that he had started a cult, gotten rich with his church, etc.
We later went with Pr. Eliseo & Pr. Valdir to Marechal Vivida, a city 20km away from here. We met Pr. Carlão (Carlos Batiston- Eliseo’s cousin on 2nd degree) his wife, Pra. Débora, & their 2 sweet daughters. While at their house, they told us that last September when Jeff first came here, he shared a word with them at the prayer line about Ziclag. They shared how all of that had been fulfilled & how things were going right now. Jeff shared a little more thoroughly the principle of Ziclag: a city of the philistines. King David’s men were broken-hearted, the city was burned, their wives & children were taken, his men were thinking of killing him. & then he called for the priest & for the ephod. He needed to know where to go from there & had to make a decision, all alone with the Lord, when even his own men were dissatisfied with him.
Jeff brought out that “Ziclag” is a principle. Whenever we go to Ziclag the Lord will let the philistines burn it all down. Things will happen & we’ll be pushed to a situation where we’ll have to make a decision to either flee from those that are dissatisfied & run for our lives, forsaking our call & leaving the place & time for God’s promise to be fulfilled; or seek His will, admitting we’ve done wrong, & earnestly wanting to go the right way having humbled ourselves before him.
At his church we had a wonderful time in worship, & though the pastor tried to cut it short so Jeff could have more time to preach, when the band stopped, the church kept on going. The place was filled with the Spirit. They started playing again; we sang some more & ended the worship.
Pr. Carlão made a little introduction, & made a statement while side-by-side with Eliseo, that even though some people had spread the idea that he & pr. Eliseo are divided, that isn’t true & that he loves him, Eliseo is his father, & they’re together. They hugged & kissed in front of the whole church.
Pastor Eliseo preached out of Dan Duke’s message on the 4 things which open the heavens: Worship, The Word, Prayer & Offerings- very on fire- & called the church to bless, sow their seed & open the heavens as they offered unto our ministry. Jeff loved it Jeff preached straight & forward to the congregation on Isaac’s wells, the philistines, their identity & inheritance, gossip & it’s effects. He called someone to help him illustrate, in a very dynamic way, how gossip will go around; out of one person who’s hurt, to make many others feel the same way. Although the person who started it probably won’t even remember, the unity of the church is lost & it gets divided.
He used Pr. Valdir to show how Jesus put himself in us, by putting a cloth in his shirt, making him “pregnant” with the Life & Spirit of the Kingdom.
He shared with a very clear presentation, that we need to have an attitude, that we have a choice & we need help, & if we’re hungry enough & thirsty enough, the Lord will work in us & anything He can do in you, He’ll do through you in the lives of others.
At the Altar Call, almost everyone raised their hands & stood up when called, & everybody came to receive prayer. The Lord poured wonderfully. People were on the floor around the whole church, crying, laughing...

March 29th
Pto. Branco
Comunidade Vida para os Povos – Pr. Eliseo Batiston Great Worship with a small band. The meeting was out of a normal night and wasn’t very announced. Nevertheless we had around 450 people attended.
Pr. Eliseo did the offering preaching for us the same manner he did the night before.
Following the same line of the previous night, since they are two congregations of the same church in different towns, Jeff expanded on the Spiritual inheritance, redigging the wells, taking over the promisse land, killing the giants, having a strong intimacy with Jesus in the Word and in the Spirit, daily placing ourselves before Him in worship to give ourselves to Him and to receive from Him, to be able to share it with the world. “He’ll do it to us, and then, through us, to others!” Big prayer lines, everybody annointed, cry, laughter, prophecies. A Spider Adventure.

Dani told me Pedro & Joanna were sick. I told her about some of the conversation I had with Jeff- Jeff asked me to write a journal of the days, meetings & happenings of this trip. Next time we’ll bring a digital recorder to keep track of things, preachings & conversations.
Worship time with Pr. Eliseo before we left for the church.
At church tonight we had inspired worship. Pr. Eliseo introduced us, preached about offerings & collected them.
His introductory Word was full of portions of the messages & conversations we’ve had these past days. He mentioned about the blessing it has been to have Jeff around, & how he was blessed by Dan’s recorded message; which he had shared previously with his church, & based on which they’re making a main foundation for their lives: opening the heavens with worship, the word, prayers & offerings. He asked them to bless as they have been blessed, asking the Holy Spirit to lay on their hearts how much they should give in their offerings to us.
He was very encouraged & used some of the things that encouraged him like “ We win The Devil loses ”, “I’m going to Heaven You’re going to Hell ”, etc. from Jeff’s preachings & personal conversations with him.
Jeff preached about our inheritance, our identity in Christ, the wells of Isaac, the philistines, the giants, the anointing, & was very direct about our countenance & attitude, our tongue, gossip & how we have a decision to make of living as Kingdom-people, or as World-like Christians. He stated he isn’t a “Christian”, in the meaning it has gained with so much slander & failure, but that he’s a “Disciple”.
We had about 300-400 people at the meeting. Some had stiff faces throughout the preaching, but at the end, most of them raised their hands when challenged to evaluate their own lives & see if there was something in them that wasn’t right. Everybody came up for prayer & the Lord manifested his power mightily & wonderfully. Almost everyone went to the floor & there was laughter, crying, screaming, shaking, rolling, & different types of manifestations, which worked in everyone according to their need & hunger. Lot’s of fire & anointing.
When Jeff prayed for Pr.Eliseo, he fell to one side & Jeff & I fell the opposite way, all the way over to the wall, about 3 meters away from where we were standing. The Spirit was so strong & we were getting drunk in it. When he prayed for Pr. Clotilde, I had to kneel, as I wasn’t able to stand while translating. Jeff “took off” her old garments & prophesied over her life, that it was time to turn the page & start a new one; that the Lord had sent new gifts to her life & something that will surprise her.
He prophesied over some other people. Over Pr. Valdir; that a faithful man will abound in blessings. Not knowing she was Valdir’s daughter (Valdir told us while Jeff was talking to her), he prophesied that the Lord will give her a prince (for a husband) that will treat her as a queen, both publicly & in private. That she will have kids, live to an old age & hold her grandchildren (in His time) in her arms. He warned her not to let herself be pulled out of the Kingdom by any guy in her youth & not be led by the world’s ways. Jeff prophesied over Gilmara, the band singer, that the Lord was gonna take her to many places along with her husband (who stood behind her as she was bending slowly before falling). That he was going with her, but that in time he would have to let her go from under his wing & let her stand next to him, side by side, because of her calling & ministry.
A lady was sitting on a chair laughing until everything was over & was carried to the car to go home. She said she saw Jesus with a little bucket & little rags wiping her up to clean her, & as she wondered why he needed rags to clean her, she laughed even more.
When we left the church, Pr. Eliseo showed us the church that the other pastor who left his church had opened right at the corner of the block down the hill. He told us this guy visited some of his sheep & told them that people would get tired of going up the hill to Eliseo’s church & would eventually prefer to stay at his.
Jeff asked him to stop, so he entered the driveway & parked. Jeff prayed & asked the Lord to forgive this brother & solve this situation His way, if he’s a man of God, that he be moved in his heart & church, if he isn’t, that he be stopped. But that no curse comes upon him.
After the meeting we had dinner at home with the pastors & talked about spiders, Jeff’s jungle stories burning the trash & himself, & the little dog & the jar of mayonnaise. They saw a spider in the office where Jeff is sleeping before we went to the church.
Pr. Eliseo told us the funny story of how he once found a spider in the bathroom, when he was naked to take a shower. The funniest thing, but which made him a little traumatized. He had goose bumps all over when he started telling us the terror he went through when it jumped on him.
After that we went upstairs with brooms & sticks & canes (four men), found it & killed it in a hilarious & courageous teamwork effort. After flushing it down the toilet, we spent another hour telling all kinds of jokes, closed with a prayer & went to bed.

March 30th
Pto. Branco
Líderes e Adhonep Meeting with the Pastors Council in the Afternoon.
One of them brought up that a certain so-called “prophet” had said that there would be a great drought in the south of Brazil, which is happening now and he summoned the council to join him in prayer for the Lord to send, as promissed, His rain in due season, not to harm the economy and against that “prophecy”.
Jeff went from there to bring up that droughts in the Bible were a result of idolatry in the land. He preached on the Arc being carried by the oxen, the death of Uza, King David’s deeper search in the scriptures on how to proceed to carry and his final success. He had six pastors taking position as the priests carrying the Arc and developed his message from there, showing how we can even be in total agreement, and do it the wrong way. He pointed that the Lord is moving, as He did when David was bringing in the Arc. Even though there was the Tabernacle of Moses in Gilgal, King David brought the Arc to Jerusalem danced before it in the Joy of the Presence of God. And how he was criticized by his wife Milcal, representing the old ordinance criticizing the new Move of God. He brought them to the understanding tha to be able to really accomplish something in the Land, they will have to bear the responsibility of carrying the very Presence of God on their own shoulder, in their own lives. And as the Arc swings back and forth as they move forward, they will have to move in sincronism and unty. The new move of God for he time stir things in a different way and it brings the Joy of the Lord and His Presence into the Land and they should dance with it and let it move, and not be part of the old movement, as Mical, that in her critizism was cursed and became barren and unfruitfull.
Adhonep Dinner – we went as visitors and had good fellowship, made a few good friends, ministered individually and were able to get to know some more people in the City of Pato Branco, as Pr. Eliseo was excited about telling everybody who we were and what we were there for and the good things he had seen and heard.
Back to his place, last night of good, deep conversation and counselling, with good prayer and lots of laughter. They – Pr. Eliseo and Pra. Clotilde were very distressed, frustrated, tired and sad when we first got there. They were very encouraged and renewed by the time we left and were set to go to Jeff’s place in Nova Lima – Belo Hrizonte, while he would be gone to spend a week having a private vacation, meeting with Dan Duke. Gilson told me they were there this week.

March 30th
Pto. Branco
Foz do Iguaçu Home Good time with Evandro and another brother driving us all the way from Pato Branco to the Internatioal Airport in Foz do Iguaçú.
Evandro is a Spiritual son to Pastor Eliseo that had enhardened his heart influenced by the ones that were causing turmoil in their church before they left. He could see he went wrong, had humbled himself, was fully forgiving and got to know the heart of the Father in a deeper way. During this days he witnessed he was so touched!