Hii!!! My name is Maria and I'm currently serving with YWAM Kona, HI, as a full time missionary.

I'm originally from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, but I've been living in Kona, Hawaii for the past 2 years serving with Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

YWAM is a missionary organization that focuses on training and discipling young people to go to the nations and to, through knowing God, make God know in those places. YWAM has different base locations were they work with different ministries.

I serve specifically with Fire and Fragrance, a ministry rooted in worship and intercession to the nations that through a DTS (Discipleship Training School) send a bunch of young people to the nations in short-term trips. The vision of the school that I'm currently serving, are the Extreme Places, places that are hard physically to reach and consequently have so many unreached people groups. God is gripping my heart for the ones that has no access to the Bible, that have never heard the name of Jesus or the Gospel - and that's an injustice.

In the Summer of 2024 I had the opportunity to lead a team to the West Coast of Africa, to Gambia. We spent 3 months there reaching villages and tribes completely unreached, giving out Bibles on SD cards translated in their own dialects, and doing house to house evangelism. In a almost 97% muslim nation, we saw the Lord moving in peoples hearts and people giving their lives to the Lord. Through that time, God opened my heart for the unreached. Seeing how many people never heard the name of Jesus and never had the access to the Bible should be the fuel for us to go, and that's exactly what I want to do. I want to see unreached people groups being encountered by the love of Jesus and transformed to be sent out to spread the Gospel.

I would love for you to pray about partnering with me in what God is doing in the Extreme Places and sow in my life financially. Would you consider joining me in seeing the Kingdom of God reaching the most unreached places?

Thank you so much!!!

Maria