Mission History
At the end of 2014, the couple Marco and Cláudia Marinho were invited by the couple Karl and Kim Enns to come and live in Caucaia, near Fortaleza, Ceará. The plan would be to live on a farm, owned by Karl and Kim, with the aim of starting to work to reach children in the Northeast. The couple Marcelo and Lana Alencar already commented on this possibility and challenged Marco and Cláudia to a ministry like this, they considered it to be God's will and as an opportunity for this ministry. So, they left Campinas, in São Paulo and migrated to Ceará. At the beginning of the year, the three couples got together; Marcelo and Lana Alencar, Karl and Kim Enns, and finally Marco and Claudia Marinho. They idealized the missionary project and the name of the mission: CAMP Northeast (Center for Missional and Pastoral Support), and we started working with a focus on reaching children from Christian families, to reach them through their parents in their churches. We spent six months preparing, with an interactive curriculum for that purpose. After completing the first part of the material, we started the presentation and challenge to parents.
Even showing playful and interactive material for discipleship of their children and willing to train them in how they should use it, the parents showed no interest. It was then that, at the end of 2015, we received the visit of missionary Steven Zacharias from the CCI mission (Children Camp International), and he challenged us to change the format of our material and change the audience that should be trained, based on the experience with the mission he was having in India - reaching the children through the teens and youth. So, stimulated by this visit and possible support also from the CCI, we changed our curriculum to reach children through the churches, through the preparation of leaders, including teenagers, young people, women and men. They aim to carry out Small Groups with children in their homes, with the support of their churches. This project was better accepted and we started to have better results. We started in the city of Boa Viagem, then different cities like Varjota,Hidrolândia, Maranguape and we increased the reach. Currently we reach 346 cities in all Brazilian states and other countries. We have 120 coordinations, more or less 1437 leaders and a range of approximately 7252 thousand children reached!
Our mission
Our intention is to let ourselves be used by God in order to be a point of: reception, multiplication of blessings and change of vision in relation to God, Christian identity, Christian community and the world. That's what we call discipleship! Our group is open to those who simply want to bless others, being a testimony that there is a God and that life can be much more than what we are living. CAMP considers relationships to be a fundamental part of influencing and discipling children. That is, we seek to influence the church so that they understand that only by relating to children's daily lives through adults, teenagers or young people who adhere to the project, getting involved, playing, and worrying about them, having interaction with the teaching of word for conflict resolution, for prayer is what will get more lasting results, more solid for the future and for their lives than going only to Bible school, learning the Bible only by teaching.
