Freston UCKG

". From around 400 in 1989, there are now about 2,500 Brazilian Protestant missionaries, nearly 90 per cent of whom are sent by missionary societies resulting from Brazilian initiative. The receiving countries (over 70) cover all the continents."¹ (35)

"The Brazilian missionary effort has not been accompanied by the dose of messianism of many Korean and some Ghanaian missionaries regarding the present or future role of their countries in the world ... Brazilians have wanted to believe that their cultural and racial mix equipped them perfectly for cross-cultural engagement. But ease in breaking barriers and mixing in new environments is not the same as cultural sensitivity; in fact, it may lead merely to quicker mistakes. While Brazil is a country of considerable racial inter-marriage, few people are used to regular contact with other languages and cultures."² (35-36)

"While the historical churches (such as the Brazilian Presbyterians) prefer to work with sister-churches abroad, responding to requests for missionaries with specific qualifications (e.g. in church-planting, youth work, etc.), and many inter-denominational agencies seek to open new autochthonous denominations in the country of destination, allowing the group of new national believers to decide on their course of action, the UCKG and most other Brazilian Pentecostal denominations practise a model of direct ecclesiastical transplant, founding branches of their denomination around the globe and employing everywhere virtually the same techniques that have served them well in Brazil. "³

1P Freston ' The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Southern Africa',Journal of Religion in Africa 35:1 (2005), 33–65, 35.

2P Freston ' The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Southern Africa',Journal of Religion in Africa 35:1 (2005), 33–65, 35–36.

3P Freston ' The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: A Brazilian Church Finds Success in Southern Africa',Journal of Religion in Africa 35:1 (2005), 33–65, 36–37.