Phil and Jen Snell are a British/Canadian couple who, with their two children, moved to Brazil in 2012 to join Xingu Mission as full-time missionaries.
Their first assignment was in Marabá, Pará in the north of the country where they learned the language, the culture and fell in love with Brazil and Brazilians.
After their second year in Marabá, they began to jointly feel a stirring that perhaps their time in there was limited but they had no idea where or when God would send them on.
‘A New Thing’
In a time of prayer and reflection, Jen felt she heard God saying, ‘If you’ll trust me, I want to use you to do a new thing’. Jen had no idea what this ‘new thing’ was but trusted that God would reveal it.
João Pessoa
In their search for the next step, they were approached by
the national leadership of the Vineyard, Association of churches Brazil, to consider moving to João Pessoa. A group had formed of Vineyard church members from other states who were looking to begin a church plant.
After visiting several other places and João Pessoa, both Jen and Phil felt a clear calling to that city, on the Northeast coast of Brazil.