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Daniel Berg was visiting Pastor Gunnar Vingren in South Bend, Indiana, USA. During that visit, when participating in a meeting of prayer, the Lord spoke to them, by means of a prophetic message, that they should go out to preach the Gospel and the blessings of the Pentecostal Brightening. The place had been mentioned in the prophecy: Pará. None of those present knew that place. After the prayer, the two young people were in a library looking for a map that would show them where Pará was located. When It was found, they realized it was a state in the north of Brazil.

Superintendent Pastor

Since January 6th, 1980, he presides over the Ministry of Bethlehem, responding spiritually by more than 2.000 churches and congregations in Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and abroad (USA, some countries in South America, Europe and Africa). He is a member of the World Committee of the Assemblies of God with headquarters in Springfield, USA. He is in charge of the General Convention of the Assemblies of God in Brazil - CGADB, where its management has been marked by important facts such as the construction of its new headquarters and the restructuring of the House Publisher of the Assemblies of God - CPAD.

Pastor Joel Freire Costa
President Pastor

Assembly of God - Ministry of Bethlehem - USA is a missionary Church with headquarters in the city of Lighthouse Point, FL, USA, whose mother church, organized in Brazil since 1927, is headquartered in the city of Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ is a living organism, an ecclesiastical organization where men and women redeemed by the precious blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, meet weekly in temples and homes to worship our good God. In each one of our worship services, we see the power and the hand of God moving in such a special way through the preaching and teaching of the Bible, as well as through the praise and adoration, gifts, signs, miracles, wonders and miracles of the Holy Spirit of God, which often are notorious in the lives of those who are there.