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Our History in Bahia


Other missionaries arrived in Brazil. Among them was Otto Nelson, founder of the Assembly of God in the state of Bahia. The missionary Nelson arrived in Bethlehem on October 25, 1914, newly married to Adina Nelson Patterson, willing to learn the English language - which has in a short time - by going to Alagoas, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro with the aim of preach the Gospel. Submitted by Gunnar Vingren missionary, the couple arrived in Nelson Maceió (AL) on 25 August 1915, founding the Church Assembly of God with only seven people. In 1918 went to Recife (PE) and performed the baptism in the waters of three new brothers, identifying himself more with the people of northeastern and filling up of compassion for lost souls.
Of Para to Bahia
Well before 1924, his sister Joaquina Carvalho and her husband José Clodoaldo, Baptists believers were persecuted by men without the fear of God, in the river Salsa in the city known as "The Web", where all living relatives of Sister Joaquina. The men tied the brother Clodoaldo on a pole next to it and made a big bonfire. Amid the flames, he said: "O Jesus! O Jesus! "And the Lord heard, sending people in their distress. Disgusted with what happened, José decided to switch to Clodoaldo Pará, with his wife. She left in "The Web" Manoel his brothers, John, Rita (Ritinha), Agnes and Maria Paulina Mendes - married to the Portuguese Christopher Gomes (grandparents of his brother Eliezer Gomes, presbyter of the Church of Canavieiras for many years and one of the first Bahia to receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit).
Later, already in Pará, the couple accepted the Pentecost who was being preached by missionaries Vingren and Berg. Baptized with the Holy Spirit, his sister Joaquina began to repeatedly ask God to give him able to return to Bahia to preach the Pentecostal message to relatives. Once the Lord showed him in a vision, a path full of stones and all she heard a voice saying: "What are you doing in Egypt?" So she felt that it was not yet the time of your journey. Some time later the Lord showed him the same way, but this time it was so clear it seemed to have been swept in particular that she move. The sister felt then that it was the time. She took a stay of the missionary Otto Nelson in Bethlehem, and with it brought the Pentecostal message to relatives in Bahia.
Arriving in Canavieiras, Joaquina and Otto went to "The Web", where relatives lived the sister. The message was well received and believed her victory, Edvirgens, Isidoro (plus wife and a daughter), and Rita and Inês Mendes, married to Antonio Correia. This was the greatest persecutor of the early work, including closing the congregation of "The Web" which met the brothers who had believed in the Pentecostal message, and shoo the small group outside the farm. It is said that a brother had a vision in which someone puxava an endless rope behind the smoke of Satan, and never finished pulling. It is said that Antonio Correia died very thin, eating mud and smoke of rope. The mother claimed, but no way: he continued to eat mud and smoke, in fulfilling the vision of smoke taken from Satan.



The message is well received
From "The Web" Joaquina and Otto Nelson declined to Boca's Creek, a village on the left bank Jequitinhonha, municipality of Belmonte. There, other people also believed in the message and received the baptism with the Holy Spirit, including the Santana and José Feliciano Maria Feliciano de Jesus (parents of Teodoro Santana), Rosa Damasceno (future wife of Theodore), and brother Jerome Adonília Ramos, son of Rita Mendes.
From the mouth of the stream rose farm Geneva where, at the time, lived his brother Purcino Gomes and his wife Maria Paulina (Baptists believe parents and brother of Eliezer Gomes). The farm Geneva was a small piece of land purchased by a brother Purcino Sesmarias of the same name, owned by an immigrant alien, George Müller, and administered by Louis Felix Larchert. This was the son of Felix Larchert French, who had a sawmill and wood sold in the region. One day, when descending with a load of wood for Canavieiras, suddenly fell ill, died in that city and is buried there. His wife, Felismina Loureiro, grief, moved to the Rio de Janeiro taking his son, Louis Félix Larchert, and never be heard news of them. One of the descendants of Aryan Felismina was Loureiro (now deceased), farmer in the region of Poxim in Canavieiras. Another son of Felismina, John Felix Larchert, was in Geneva farm. He and the children Diocleta, Maria, Gervalina and Zózimo Larchert were Presbyterians. Mary and Gervalina married with children of his brother Purcino Gomes: Domingos Mendes with the first and the second with Eliezer Gomes. Diocleta centenary died and without accepting the Pentecost. Zózimo accepted, but later joined the movement called "The Restoration", which remained until death.
When Otto Nelson began preaching faced much resistance. Sister Adonília Ramos says the missionary Nelson began the message generally speaking in tongues and, in the room of the house, the children of the Purcino brother - who were Baptists - were sound and make fun of preaching. Once, when required to go to Boca Córrego buy food, instead of putting a saddle on the animal have a shoulder yoke (one seat more rustic and hard) in order to humiliate the missionary. But after hearing the message, believed and received the baptism with the Holy Spirit: Paulina Maria de Carvalho, Maria Ramos, Jose Ramos, Eliezer Gomes de Carvalho, Maria da Pena and Baldoína Carvalho. Later, Joaquina Carvalho and Otto Nelson went to Salvador, then Bethlehem, where his sister lived, and she never appeared in Bahia. But the seed germinated launched by Joaquina, making a broad emerging field that lasts until the present day, producing more and more fruit, for which she will receive awards in eternity.
At the end of 1926 had 20 brothers baptized with the Holy Spirit and Otto Nelson lost no time, immediately sent the pastor Joao Pedro da Silva, faithful companion, who served as an itinerant worker in the states of Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia. In the same year came Canavieiras to take account of the work in the new Pentecostal community and make the first baptisms in 1927. This good news was taken to Otto that, moving the heart to Bahia, remained the pastor John Peter in the interior several trips, getting to perform various cults in Salvador, but not on any record in the conversion of someone. Pastor John Pedro was still some time here, sometimes going to the farm and Geneva, from 1928 to 1929, remained in Ribeira (BA), distant town a day trip to Salto Grande, Salto today's currency, in Minas Gerais. Once the pastor John Peter told the brothers that the Ribeira it was strange because when I was in their land, often by those contemplating houses covered with bark of trees and even an orchard that there existed, in visions. Later, when there was, immediately recognized the place. In 1930 the pastor John Peter finally went to Vitória (ES), the first pastor to see the work that had little time, had been opened there. In Bahia, a sister had a vision in which an angel carrying a huge fish. John felt that his brother Pedro would go to the Lord, what happened in Victoria

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