{"id":48012,"date":"2024-09-30T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/?p=48012"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:22:06","slug":"new-hope-brazilian-baptist-church-god-is-doing-great-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/new-hope-brazilian-baptist-church-god-is-doing-great-things\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hope Brazilian Baptist Church: God is \u201cdoing great things\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: Emanuel Carvalho is one of the featured church planters for the 2024\u00a0<\/em>Maguire State Mission Offering<\/em><\/a>. The statewide 2024 offering goal of $900,000 is earmarked to help reach the 16.7 million Florida residents who do not have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, with 100% of all receipts designated to help launch church plants in the state.<\/em><\/p>\n

POMPANO BEACH\u2013One church. Multiple languages. One gospel.<\/p>\n

Planted as a church to reach Brazilians, New Hope Brazilian Baptist Church<\/a> in Pompano Beach today has attendees who speak Portuguese, Spanish and English. Pastor Emanuel Carvalho, a native Brazilian who has been in America for five years, preaches his sermon each Sunday in his native Portuguese and attendees can listen to the sermon in English on headsets.<\/p>\n

Carvalho and his wife, Jessica, originally arrived in Florida for what they thought would be six months. Their mission: to help New Hope Brazilian Baptist Church get back on its feet after experiencing some challenging circumstances and setbacks. Carvalho was the last of three Brazilian pastors who had been asked to serve the struggling church for six months each. Carvalho\u2019s six months turned into five years, and New Hope Brazilian Baptist Church, through its partnership with Send Network Florida<\/a> and the Florida Baptist Convention<\/a>, has done more than just get back on its feet. It is moving forward with strategic intentionality.<\/p>\n

Still primarily a church made up of individuals with Brazilian ancestry, Carvalho said that the congregation includes second- and third-generation Brazilian families in America and others who have arrived within the past week or month.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Carvalho and his wife understand what it\u2019s like to arrive in a new country with a new language and no family. \u201cSometimes I felt like I was alone,\u201d he said. That experience drives him to lead his church to embrace newcomers as family. Recently a Brazilian woman, who is new to America, was involved in a car accident; her first instinct was to call church members to help her at the scene of the accident with translation and paperwork.<\/p>\n

The church is involved actively in its community with a chaplains\u2019 ministry that ministers to people in jail and in the hospital, a runners\u2019 ministry and 90 small groups. One small group in Lexington, South Carolina, is taking steps to become a church plant.<\/p>\n

Because of such community outreach, many local residents, with no ties to Brazil, have found their way to New Hope. Translation technology, through translator headsets, helps all who enter the doors of the church to hear the same gospel message.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While services and classes are in Portuguese, numerous people on staff and volunteers are fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Carvalho said the children\u2019s ministry is abuzz with energy each Sunday as all three languages are spoken simultaneously. Languages, he said, help people not only adjust to a new country but also maintain their ties with their old country. On weeknights, New Hope teaches English classes for adults, and on Saturday mornings, New Hope offers Portuguese classes for children.<\/p>\n

Looking back, Carvalho admits the first three years at New Hope were a \u201cbig challenge.\u201d Still, he said, \u201cGod brings New Hope. God guided us though. With the Holy Spirit and the Bible, we navigated those waters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through it all, he said, \u201cGod has been doing great things in our church.\u201d He credits his partnership with Send Network Florida and the Florida Baptist Convention as well as financial gifts from the Maguire State Mission Offering<\/a> with helping his church \u201cturn dreams into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the church\u2019s mission is not only to receive blessings but to \u201cbe a blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carvalho asks Florida Baptists to pray \u201cthat God helps us to do our mission here in this country and to guide us to understand our opportunities to share the gospel, to help people, to do our best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: Emanuel Carvalho is one of the featured church planters for the 2024\u00a0Maguire State Mission Offering. The statewide 2024 offering goal of $900,000 is earmarked to help reach the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":48015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23,24,353,25],"tags":[857,858,859,367,833,860,861],"class_list":["post-48012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expanding","category-sharing","category-region-southeast","category-state-mission-offering","category-stories","tag-brazil","tag-brazilian","tag-emanuel-carvalho","tag-maguire-state-misison-offering","tag-msmo24","tag-new-hope-brazilian-baptist-church","tag-pompano-beach"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67773,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48012\/revisions\/67773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flbaptist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}