Dan & Hope Owsley

Brazil

Dan and Hope have served in three regions of Brazil over the past 31 years starting churches and organizing conferences. Their ministry has included teaching Bible and Christian doctrine to church leaders, mentoring men and women in ministry, sharing the gospel, and discipling new believers. Over the last seven years, Dan and Hope have served in Brasilia, the nation's capital and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil. During this period Hope edited a book of John Wesley writings in Portuguese. Dan engaged in reaching people for Christ through weekly visits to small businesses and through home meetings. They were also a part of a church planting team, mentored pastors in the region and teaching seminary courses to church leaders. The Brazilian church is calling Dan and Hope to a new opportunity. In February of 2020, they will move to Sao Paulo to help revitalize the main campus of the Free Methodist Bible seminary and to encourage a church planting movement throughout the country.
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  • their adjustment to a new location and work assignment
  • wisdom and effectiveness in this next term of service
  • many new churches to be planted throughout Brazil
  • the FM seminary to move forward in training many leaders
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    Blog:  Owsley's in Brazil

    • God Knows Our Every Need


      “Why on earth did he give me a spoon?” thought José Gregorio as he left the fire department building that afternoon five years ago. He had just arrived in NW Brazil after fleeing from his own country of Venezuela where jobs, food, and medical care were becoming scarce. He and his wife, Eira, had been …

    • Record-Breaking Year


      The Theology of John Wesley is one of three required classes for those seeking ordination in the Free Methodist church. Generally, our students are young adults and these courses are done without a lot of fanfare (as they squeeze the classes and assignment into their already busy lives.) Maybe it was because of the pandemic, …

    • God Will Make a Way – Part 2


      In Brazil, a party store is NOT a place where you buy liquor. It’s where you buy baking supplies, especially chocolate. Chocolate is practically synonymous with Easter because of all the large chocolate eggs that are sold everywhere to commemorate the date. Barely a year ago, our friend Tom had just put in a substantial …

    • God Will Make a Way


      The Parque Alvorada (Sunrise Park) FMC has been a work in progress for several years. It is situated in a poor, yet growing, neighborhood and has always struggled financially. Even though several work teams from the U.S. gave it a wonderful head start, construction stopped completely in 2019. At the beginning of 2020, Pastor Wildemberg …

    • Spiritual Breathing Exercises


      Sometimes when I’m all alone on my early morning walk in the park, I’ll pull down my face mask and take in deep gulps of fresh air. Never before has breathing felt so daring. The year 2020 often left us gasping for air. Each new limitation, each cancelled plan, and each fresh disappointment felt like …

    • God Still Speaks


      The first time I taught Theology of John Wesley I had been in Brazil for only a year. My Portuguese was barely intelligible, but Wesley’s sermons made up for whatever I lacked in clarity. Time and again, my students would tell me that their reading assignments had turned their hearts toward God in a new …







    Contact Dan and Hope

    dan.owsley1@gmail.com

    mrs.owsley@hotmail.com