Happy New Year to everyone. I have many pictures to post from my daughter’s visit with her husband and son. My new boat has been approved for operation and I hope to begin making trips to the interior churches this month.

Thanks so much for all your prayers and support.

James Williams

I’m not much of a writer but I must communicate as best I can. Please be patient. My wife can not help me much in this so I must do it alone. Progress is being made in all of the churches under our care. We just brought the church leaders into town for the weekend. We call these weekends “impactos” because we impact them with the word of God. They go back to their villages full and compressed with the Word of God. One of them, a lady, was baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Two of the villages that did not have buildings to gather in now have a roof and a concrete floor. Lumber is being cut by chainsaw for the walls. The new boat will soon be on the rivers, digging wells and looking for new places to plant churches for Jesus.

The boat project has been very slow. But once in use, it will be a powerful tool for the Kingdom of God.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. We are praying for you. May the Lord encourage you in your daily walk with Him. We all need encouragement. We love you and need you. God Bless you,

James and Celia Williams

Written by James Williams:

Aim – reaching beyond

We all need encouragement. I just got back from visiting the churches we are responsible to take of. 2 of these had been struggling to maintain their heads above the flood problems. One was suffering with low attendance and fornication. And the other one was suffering from discouragement because of other churches causing confusion for new converts. I thank and praise the Lord for His goodness. After the missions conference last month and investing in the lives of leaders there has been a radical turnaround for those 2 churches.

In the first case, attendance is very good now and the men have organized a workforce to help each other clearing land and planting crops. The second church multiplied and the churches that we causing the problems left the area completely. We are encouraged and you may be encouraged to continue to plant into this ministry.

Prayer requests – for the authorities in Brazil to give us the registration papers for the boat. Sometimes they take long because they want money. We will not bend to their corruption.

We need a small outboard motor for the canoe that was given to us to go along with the big boat.

God Bless you. Your missionaries James and Celia Williams.

Welcome to the Amazon Inland Mission Blog. We are James and Celia Williams and are missionaries to the people on the interior of the Amazon Jungle. We travel from Manaus, Brazil up and down the Amazon River reaching, building, giving and serving God’s people. Thanks so much for visiting our new site and please bookmark us for frequent updates and pictures.

These first pictures are from a visit from Pastor Mark Stermer (Healing Place Church – Baton Rouge, Louisiana), his daughter Sarah, and Pastor Mike Davis (Healing Place Church). We visited 2 of the 5 churches that we have planted along the interior of the Amazon.

God Bless