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Preparing for a Mission Trip to Brazil
Arrive as a guest of a church that sends more missionaries than most countries receive.
Reviewed monthly · last reviewed October 2026
Este curso se tradujo al español con asistencia automática. La versión en inglés es la original.
Lo que aprenderá
- Explain who you are visiting — Brazil’s five regions, and why a trip to Rio tells you little about Recife
- Greet, thank and apologize in Brazilian Portuguese, and avoid the Spanish habits that give you away
- Describe Brazil as a missionary-sending church, not a mission field, and adjust your posture accordingly
- Speak about Catholic, evangelical and Afro-Brazilian faith without insult or caricature
- Follow local norms for warmth, physical closeness, hospitality and flexible time
- Recognize the practices that do real harm — favela tourism, orphanage visits, uninvited travel to Indigenous land
- Prepare for yellow fever, dengue, heat, water and big-city security before you go
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- 1
Why preparation is the work
What goes wrong when teams arrive unprepared — and the one fact about Brazil that resets your posture.
5 min Cuestionario - 2
Five Brazils: who you are actually visiting
The regions, the scale, and why a report from Rio tells you almost nothing about Recife or the Amazon.
8 min Cuestionario - 3
Portuguese, not Spanish
The most common visitor mistake, the twenty-four phrases worth memorizing, and the nasal sounds behind them.
9 min Cuestionario Escrito + interactivo - 4
The church that sends
Catholic Brazil, evangelical Brazil, Afro-Brazilian religion — and your posture inside a sending church.
8 min Cuestionario Interactivo - 5
Warmth, closeness and jeitinho
Hugs, cheek kisses and standing close; flexible time; and how to tell which deadlines are real.
7 min Cuestionario Interactivo - 6
Do no harm
Favelas as neighbourhoods not destinations, orphanage voluntourism, photography, and the money that displaces local work.
8 min Cuestionario Escrito + interactivo - 7
Health, security and the pre-flight checklist
Yellow fever, dengue, heat and water; phones and jewellery in big cities; and what to do before you fly.
7 min Cuestionario Escrito + interactivo
Fuentes y lecturas adicionales
- U.S. Department of State — Brazil Travel Advisory and International Travel Information
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — CDC Travelers’ Health: Brazil (yellow fever, dengue, malaria, routine vaccines)
- Pan American Health Organization / WHO — Report on the epidemiological situation of dengue in the Americas, EW 52 of 2024
- Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) — 2022 Census: population, religion, Indigenous peoples, favelas and urban communities
- Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (FUNAI), Government of Brazil — Indigenous lands, restricted-use areas and entry authorisation
- Lausanne Movement — Majority World Mission Movements — missionaries sent from Brazil and Latin America
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