VIDEO QUOTE: “Our new ministry property…has already drawn the community closer to us…it gives —Craig DeLille, SAM Brazil Field Director us an opportunity to be a beacon of hope.”
Front page: Content expressions of a Shipibo student family together at CCB’s dorms. Left: A corridor view of CCB’s complex. A large, multi-story facility that occupies a third of a city block, the complex also provides refuge for more than 35,000 indigenous each year as the rains bring flooding conditions in villages. ¶ An indigenous woman at CCB carving an oar for her family’s Ucayali River transportation to and from CCB.
SAM Recife Ministry Center. Northeast Brazil.
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Center to be a beacon of hope in its community as SAM’s missionary team and international partners engage in gospel outreach through this new space in the northeast of Brazil.
SAM Academy. Pucallpa, Peru.
The process is working and tribal churches are being planted.”
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SAM Academy educates and disciples children of missionaries. Founded in Peru’s eastern Amazon jungle in 1966, SAM Academy enables gospel ministry by providing a vital service to families responding to the Great Commission.
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Fundación Comunidad Viva. Bogotá, Colombia. Strengthening the social fabric of Colombia and beyond through the presence and outreach of the local church, in local communities.
Tom expresses excitement when he talks about the impact of CCB’s outreach programs, set up through a partnership with the ShipiboConibo church association. He recalls, “[they] continue to travel through the vast jungle region of Peru into many different tribal groups… During 2016 more than 25 major trips were made… visiting more than 50 villages on 12 different river systems.” Tom speaks confidently, and hopefully, about the CCB’s purposes being accomplished, “lives are being transformed because of the efforts of the graduates through evangelism and discipleship.
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he fog lifts each morning on the Ucayali River, as locals travel into Pucallpa, Peru, for trade, education, and work. Pucallpa, the capital of the Ucayali Region, is Peru’s largest port city, and sits at the Northeast end of the only highway extending from the Pacific coast to its region. It rests on the edge of Peru’s upper Amazon basin rainforest and is home to the CCB Bible Institute.
In 1992, the CCB or Centro de Capacitación Bíblica opened its doors for the first time, and in 25 years it has grown from a class size of six to an average of 50 students, representing over the years a total of 18 different tribal groups, and resulting in 360 graduates 90% of whom are active today in ministry. This past January, the CCB welcomed 70 students from five tribal groups who will participate in its two-year program. Graduates immerse themselves with the local Shipibo-Conibo Tribal Evangelical Church Association, serving by making disciples, training others in evangelism, modeling leadership for the emerging generation, as well as carrying out social and community development projects that improve health and increase access to food, water and education.
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One goal of the CCB is for students to discover and use their spiritual gifts to strengthen communities of faith,
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into new urban communities—as the redemptive engine of the Foundation’s urban renewal efforts.
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MAKE IT HAPPEN Will you donate to sustain the discipleship and pastoral formation work of CCB? $50 per month sustains a pastor at CCB for one year. Help keep the momentum at CCB in 2017 as it celebrates 25 years. To donate, visit: www.southamericamission.org/ccbperu.
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The growth, momentum, and impact of the CCB is invigorating, and its continued success after these first 25 years will be the direct result of the time and resources that so many have given, and continue to give, to see this ministry flourish. Funding received to sustain the ministry of the CCB helps cover students’ transportation needs to and from villages, room and board, tuition, textbooks, and costs associated with medical care the center strives to provide. $600 enables an indigenous pastor to train for an entire year at the CCB, and contributes to the advancement of the gospel of grace in the Amazon basin of Northeast Peru. •
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including their individual families. Students work diligently on thesis papers during their time at the CCB, while the faculty and staff, who are Peruvian pastors and lay leaders, mentor the students. As each program cycle brings new students, it also brings its hurdles. “Each year differences in language, levels of education, and customs of other tribal groups bring new challenges to the program of CCB,” SAM missionary Tom Hough explains. Despite these changes, the training center continues to grow and impact its community. >