For more than 20 years, I have served as a full-time missionary. I began this journey when I was 18 years old, and now, at the age of 40, I can look back with gratitude at God’s faithfulness throughout every season of ministry.

In 2010, after joining Youth With A Mission (YWAM), I met my wife, Nathalia, during missionary training. Since then, we have dedicated our lives to serving the Lord together.

Today, with our two children, Pedro and Mariana, we continue to serve as a missionary family, believing that lasting transformation happens when the Gospel of kingdom reaches people, families, and communities. Our calling is centered on raising leaders and strengthening missionary movements that will impact Brazil and the nations.

I serve as the leader of the YWAM Almirante Tamandaré campus near Curitiba, where more than 1,500 students are trained every year through missionary schools, leadership development, and the University of the Nations. Every week, our teams also serve more than 150 children from vulnerable communities surrounding our campus through education programs, ballet, sports, soccer, circus arts, mentoring, and home discipleship. Beyond our local ministry, I help mentor and provide oversight for new YWAM pioneering initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon, Japan, northeastern Brazil, southern Brazil, and Philadelphia in the United States. I also teach with the University of the Nations and have spent more than a decade serving alongside missionaries working among river people communities in the Amazon.

At the heart of everything we do is a profound vision: to see Brazil transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We long to see a nation marked by justice, integrity, and hope. A nation where violence, corruption, poverty, and brokenness give way to the values of God’s Kingdom. We believe this transformation begins by raising a new generation of Christ-centered leaders with commitment and responsibility who will faithfully serve in every sphere of society, including education, government, business, the arts, the family, and the Church. Whether we are discipling young missionaries, serving children in vulnerable neighborhoods, or planting new ministries, our passion is to see lives changed and communities restored through the love of Christ.

As full-time missionaries, our family depends on the partnership of friends, churches, and individuals who share this vision. We are currently building a team of ministry partners to provide $1,500 per month, allowing us to continue leading these ministries while covering our family’s living expenses, ministry operating costs, our children’s education, and health insurance for Nathalia and our children.

Your partnership is far more than financial support. It is an investment in raising leaders, strengthening missionaries, serving vulnerable communities, and seeing the Gospel bring lasting transformation throughout Brazil.

We would be honored to have you stand with us through prayer and faithful giving as we continue this mission together.

Hiago & Nathalia