The Filho family
Aroldo Filho
How have you seen God working in your life?
I’ve been raised by a Christian family that have taken me to every Sunday sermon and church activities, therefore I was surrounded by Christian people. But only by the age of 13 years I’d came to understand that believing in God was a personal decision that I was meant to make. Ever since I can see God changing and transforming me from an adolescent full of insecurities, needing attention and using of deceives and lies to please others to a man full of awareness of God’s love and so secure in him that can admit my flows and work on it with his help and grace. Today I live the challenge of moving away from friends and family pursuing the dream God has showed us. A dream that has been coming reality day by day, through God’s power and directions, and not through my power or knowledge. Although He has been testing and challenging all my skills and abilities, as I’m a young pastor, pastoring older and more experienced people, but people who have been sharing this challenge with me. It has been a privilege to see God’s care for me and my family providing the daily food and all our needs and the people he calls to pray for us which has been teaching me how close and attend he is, and it has fueling my faith and my awareness that he is the lord of my life and history.
How have you seen God working in your family?
We are a Young couple, married for 3 years and in a relationship since 2011. Mother and father of a 11 months old boy named Caleb. We have always understand the challenge of creating a new family culture together, as each one of us brings our family’s culture as background, but we have trusted God as the focus and mean to create our own ways of relating and sharing our lives. The first year was full of conversations and adjustments learning how to live together, sharing duties and responsibilities and learning a particular challenging to me: how to talk about feelings, as I’ve always kept mine to myself. The arrival of my son and this new phase of my ministry has taught me that time is a precious gift that we must be diligent in it’s administration. My wife and I have been working in our family time with God and with our date time which have changed since the baby and we have been working on focus more on each other, but gracefully, through all these process and adaptation we have seen the presence and mercy of God in our lives.
How have you seen God working in your church?
Been head of a church plantation has been a challenge and privilege. We have moved 300km away from our friends and family changing home but also culture and climate, from a hot and seaside reality to a countryside, mountains cold one. It has been fantastic to work with the core team and to see their growth and dedication to the goals we have establish together. Since we have arrived we have received many offers of help, which we have accepted and they helped us installing, unboxing, cleaning up and so on. They have showed their dedication to the project and God not only serving with their skills and time, but also with their finances as they used their economies to advance the future income of the church partners to meet our moving costs (which will be returned as soon as the financial support of our partners arrives). The core team has already showed a new perspective of the importance of reaching to non-believers with a loving and kind approach. God have gathered people with different skills and gifts and have challenged each one of them to step out of their comfort zone heading to a church plantation full of unknown and mystery, but fueling all of us with excitement and courage from His spirit.
Church Mission & Vision
We understand we must be a relevant church that communicate clearly the Gospel of Jesus, using a understandable communication and being welcoming, biblical while preaching the redeemer sacrifice of Jesus in his birth, life, death and resurrection. Being a benchmark church when it comes to the bible centricity theology, yet communicated with the local culture, welcoming those attracted by the preaching of the gospel. We commit to God and are at His command to reach his still lost sons and daughters. We strive to be multipliers of churches, planting and supporting other churches in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro and the entire world wherever Gods lead us to invest our resources.
If you would like to know more about Igreja Presbiteriana Caminho Real send an email to:
aroldomalta@gmail.com