PAZ currently has 15 bases in Brazil with one more to open this year. Mapping director John Eisenmann’s goal is for each base to have a GPS unit to save us from the trouble of having to ship units around the country and incur the associated costs. Since the number of church plants from those bases is smaller in number, one unit should meet their needs and be able to keep up as they grow. In Santarem, they already have hundreds of church plants in place, scattered in a 24 hr travel radius of the city (or more). To capture all of these churches with the two units we have will take upwards of two years because of the transportation issues associate with traveling by boat. Plus we are planning to plant another 75 churches this year alone!Seacoast committed to helping with this project and helped provide the funds for 21 gps units!!
These will help put these Amazon Basin communities "on the map". As PAZ integrates physical data, water data and church statistics with the mapping and GIS (geographical information system) capabilities of the ArcGIS software, supporters of PAZ will be astounded to see the impact and reality of God's work through PAZ to save the forgotten communities of the Amazon!
Pastor Jason Surratt presented Jeff & Becky Hrubik with the check on their visit in June!
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