25 years ago, MASA worker Pastor Baldino Hübner started church-planting work in the desolate mountainous region in the state of Espirito Santo. Some 120,000 Pomeranians (of German descent) live here in great poverty and void of any prospects. Superstition and occult practices dominate their lives.

Today, there are the two churches and four mission stations which already have 450 members!

The two pastoral couples, Valerio and Sandra Kurth and Laércio and Juliana Rogge, are themselves “fruits” this work has borne. They received theological training at the seminary in Ijuí and are passionately committed to their own ethnic group.

Adornette and Anilda Weige, our long-standing missionaries there, go on faithfully ministering to these mission churches. It is an enormous sacrifice and of high relevance when people go to live in this region of their own free will. Yet the Lord pours out his blessings!

Pomeranians for Jesus, that is the name of a new evangelistic movement. In a creative way, further churches are to be founded in so far unreached places, e.g. by radio ministry and by distributing DVDs (evangelistic films). This initiative is having an enormous impact!

MASA would like to go on supporting this fruit-bearing ministry!