SHORES OF GRACE MINISTRIES

Shores of Grace puts on a monthly banquet for prostitutes. Prostitution is legal in Brazil for women 18 and older. Many start younger and lie about their age - most of the time the police just let them go because there are so many. We sponsor a monthly banquet and go to the streets to invite women (and transvestites) to the banquet. We rent a nice room in a hotel, have the meal catered and provide music, a presentation of some kind that speaks to their value and identity. The evening ends with our staff going to the women and praying with them. Our hope is these banquets encourage women to leave the streets

Because so many on the streets of Recife are drug addicts, trafficked or prostitute, homeless, etc. we take the church to them. We do arts, paint the girls nails, play music, have a short lesson and food. Many consider this their church even though it meets on the sidewalk in a dangerous part of the city.

Outreach to the poor living in the local favelas (slums) of Brazil, helping them with medical needs, fuel, employment, education - any needs they have. Also includes outreach to those living in North Philadelphia PA USA: the poor, homeless and children needing a safe place to play and learn.

Betania Outreach is the area of our ministry where we facilitate housing for women leaving prostitution. This housing is for women willing to follow a set of standards we have incorporated to help them leave behind negative contacts. We help them find work or training / education to become successful and thrive.

Our base provides classes, training, spiritual support and love for those unable to pursue these due to economic conditions.

Our base in Philadelphia, PA opened in June 2017 and addresses many of the same areas noted above for a section of North​ Philadelphia. Our goal is to redeem streets that have been abandoned and make them full of life and hope again. We will use the methods as those in Brazil but adjusted for the US society and city of Philadelphia.

Betania 2 is for those girls who have aged out and are still in need of assistance to enter society: either through education, job training, life skills training, etc.

We provide several schools to train others in mission work. The length of the schools ranges from two days to three months. Our "School of the Streets" is our two-day school and focuses on training groups to go out and share prophetic, positive words with those in their own communities or in targeted mission areas of their church. This is held multiple times during the year in Philadelphia PA

"The Furnace" is our intensive three-week mission school held every January in Brazil.

"The Experience" is our three-month missionary training school where participants are taught and immersed in missions with one of our missionaries assigned as their mentor. At the end of the school, they are offered the opportunity to intern with our mission.

"The School of David" is a three-week program geared towards releasing​ and unlocking creative arts and worship and is held in Brazil.