Miraculous Love Missions
What we will be doing
Join us this coming June to , Brazil and help participate in MLM's "Supernatural Ministry Conference". We will be taking a team into 2 separate cities and doing an intensive 3 day conference in each city. On this trip, we will be doing teaching sessions, preaching, and healing services at night. This intensive is designed to release our ministry DNA creating transformation long after we are gone by empowering the Brazilian attendants through: teaching, hands on training with our ministry team, and impartation prayer.
For Brazilians that want info on how to attend this conference, click here!
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American participants on our Ministry Team please check here for downloadable info and updates (available after you've submitted your application). MLM Participants Only page.
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Info about Cities:
Joinville:
From http://www.promotur.com.br/
Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
With 500,000 inhabitants, Joinville is the largest city in the state of Santa Catarina. Joinville is located in one of the most beautiful stretches of the Brazilian coast between the Bay Babitonga with its 14 islands and the verdant mountains of Serra do Mar. Nicknamed "City of Flowers" because of its centuries-old Germanic traditions, and equipped with an infra- modern infrastructure and high quality services, the city stands as the ideal venue for events, as well as a destination for cultural tourism and rural development. Its structure has about 5,500 hotel beds in 30 establishments category, not counting the numerous lodges. International cuisine is always present, through the German cuisine, Italian, Oriental, and colonial cafes and steakhouses.
Joinville is one of the richest cities in the state of Santa Catarina, and its main export hub, with one of the highest human development index (HDI) of Brazil. Despite being a modern metropolis, Joinville never lost his sympathetic nature of the rural population. In the center, you can walk calmly walk by wide boulevards and cobblestone streets, where the side gardens are also a constant. The people are hospitable and the show with the visitors is always marked by the pursuit of honesty and trust, which further increases the pleasurable experience of visiting the city.
Joinville hosts international events, conferences, festivals, conventions, and sporting and cultural events. In July, it held the consecrated Dance Festival of Joinville, an important event that made the city become known as the "City of Dance". Thousands of dancers, students, professional dancers and tourists participate in this grand event. The Flower Festival held in November, is another reference in the event calendar of the municipality. In 2008, this event promoted the International Orchid Exhibition. Featuring golf course, horse riding and karting track, and the Yacht Club of Santa Catarina, very well equipped, Joinville, also offers a healthy contact with the sports and for those who want to enjoy the beautiful landscapes of the countryside, the options are numerous, since the practice of sports by the encounters with the culture of the descendants of European immigrants.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Municipality of Joinville
Nickname(s): City of Princes - City of Flowers
State Santa Catarina
Founded March 9, 1851
Government
- Mayor Carlito Merss (PT)
Area
- Total 1.130878 km2 (0.4 sq mi)
Elevation 4 m (13 ft)
Population (2010)
- Total 515,250
- Density 455/km2 (1,178.4/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-3 (UTC-3)
- Summer (DST) UTC-2 (UTC-2)
Postal Code 89200-000
Area code(s) +55 47
Website Joinville, Santa Catarina
Joinville is a city in Santa Catarina State, in the Southern Region of Brazil. Joinville is Santa Catarina's largest city. In 2010, its population has reached approximately 520,000, many of whom are of German descent.
Owing to urban development and relatively good infrastructure, Joinville has become a major center for events and business conferences. The city has one of the highest standards of living in Brazil.
History
The first inhabitants in the region of Joinville were the Tupi-Guarani people. Joinville was founded on March 9, 1851, by German, Swiss and Norwegian immigrants.
Even though it is considered a German-Brazilian city, its name is French (Joinville was named after François d'Orléans, prince of Joinville, son of King Louis-Philippe of France, who married Princess Francisca of Brazil, in 1843). The city's former name was Dona Francisca, but was changed to Joinville in 1851.
The land where Joinville is located was part of the French and Brazilian Royal Family wedding gift, even though the Prince of Joinville and his Brazilian bride had never been to the land.
A German house in Joinville.
However, a Royal Palace was built in their honor around 1870. In 1851, the French prince, after a financial crisis, sold almost all his lands in Southern Brazil to the German Senator Mathias Schröder.
Senator Schröder was a member of the Colonization Society of Hamburg. This society, made up of bankers, businessmen and merchants, attracted immigrants to be sent to Brazil and thereby establish commercial ties between Germany and the German communities in Brazil. In 1851, the first 118 German and Swiss immigrants arrived, followed by 74 Norwegian immigrants.
From 1850 to 1888, Joinville received 17,000 German immigrants, most of them Lutherans, poor peasants coming to occupy this part of Brazil.[1]
Climate data for Joinville
Average high for July: 21 °C (70°F)
Average low for July 11 °C (52 °F)
Characteristics and tourism
Joinville in the afternoon.
Joinville is famous for its strong German-influenced culture. The city retains many aspects of the German culture, in its architecture, in the local dishes, parties and in the way of life of its inhabitants, known as workaholics.
Joinville is the host city of the Festival de Dança de Joinville (Joinville Dance Festival) which is the world's largest dance event, held every year during the month of July. Joinville is the only city outside of Moscow to have a school of the Bolshoi Ballet, the renowned Russian Ballet Company. The city is home to a Catholic bishop, several Lutheran churches (one of the largest communities in Brazil), a Botanical Garden and a Zoo. Parks, and several beaches are less than an hour's drive away from the city. Joinville is also home to several museums including the "MUBI" bicycle museum.
The Royal Palace, built in the mid-19th century, nowadays is a museum about the German immigration to Brazil. It has furniture and costumes dating back to the mid-19th century.
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Campinas:
Campinas (Plains; Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐ̃ˈpinɐs]) is a city and county (município) located in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
The county area is 795.667 km². Population is 1,080,999 (2010 IBGE Census),[1] with over 98,3% in the urban region. Its metropolitan area, defined in 2000, has some 19 cities and a population of 2.8 million people. Campinas is also the administrative center of the meso-region of the same name, with 3,783,597 inhabitants (2010 Census) and 49 cities. It is the third largest city in the state, after São Paulo (11,244,369 inhab. – 2010 Census) and Guarulhos (1,222,357 inhab. – 2010 Census).
Climate
Campinas has a highland tropical climate, characterized by mostly sunny and hot days (more than 200 days in the year), a mild temperature range (average yearly temperature of 22.4 degrees Celsius, ranging from an average minimum of 7.2 degrees to a maximum of 35.9 degrees) and a constant regime of cool winds. Due to this, Campinas has little air pollution and smog and the local airports almost never close due to bad weather. Thanks to a regular rain, the region's vegetation is evergreen, and some crops, such as sugarcane have three harvests per year.
Average high for July: 25 °C (77°F)
Average low for July 12 °C (54 °F)
History
he city was founded on July 14, 1774, by Barreto Leme.[3] It was initially a simple outpost on the way to Minas Gerais and Goiás serving the "Bandeirantes" who were in search of precious minerals and Indian slaves. In the first half of the 19th century, Campinas became a growing population center, with many coffee, cotton and sugarcane farms.
The construction of a railway linking the city of São Paulo to Santos' seaport, in 1867, was very important for its growth. In the second half of the 19th century, with the abolition of slavery, farming and industrialization attracted many foreign immigrants to replace the lost manpower, mainly from Italy.
Coffee became an important export and the city became wealthy. In consequence, a large service sector was established to serve the growing population, and in the first decades of the 20th century, Campinas could already boast of an opera house, theaters, banks, movie theaters, radio stations, a philharmonic orchestra, two newspapers (Correio Popular and Diário do Povo), a good public education system (with the Escola Normal de Campinas and the Colégio Culto à Ciência), and hospitals, such as the Santa Casa de Misericórdia (a charity for poor people) and the Casa de Saúde de Campinas (for the Italian community, formely known as Circolo Italiani Uniti), and the most important Brazilian research center in agricultural sciences, the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, which was founded by Emperor Pedro II. Finally, the construction of the first Brazilian highway in 1938, between Campinas and São Paulo, the Anhanguera Highway, was a turning point in the integration of Campinas into the rest of the state.
Campinas was the birthplace of opera composer Carlos Gomes (1836 — 1896) and of the President of the Republic Campos Salles (1841 — 1913). It was home for 49 years to Hércules Florence, reputed as one of the early inventors of photography, photocopying and the mimeograph.
Title and symbols
"Coronel Quirino" Street in the middle-class residential area of the Cambuí district
Campinas means grass fields in Portuguese and refers to its characteristic landscape, which originally comprised large stretches of dense subtropical forests (mato grosso or thick woods in Portuguese), mainly along the many rivers, interspersed with gently rolling hills covered by low-lying vegetation.
Campinas was also known as "Cidade das Andorinhas" (City of Swallows), because it was a favorite spot for these migratory birds, which flocked annually in enormous numbers to downtown Campinas. However, they almost disappeared around the 1950s, probably because the church and plaza where they used to roost were torn down. Campinas' official crest and flag has a picture of the mythical bird, the phoenix, because it was practically reborn after a devastating epidemic of yellow fever in the 1800s, which killed more than 25% of the city's inhabitants.
Socio-economic conditions
Despite Campinas' position of wealth and social and economic opportunity vis-a-vis the rest of the country, the average per capita income of little more than US$ 7,700 per year clearly indicates that there are problems. If re-evaluated in terms of PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), Campinas' average income looks better (roughly 12,300 USD per year). In fact, Campinas is emblematic of the wealth distribution inequality that is so common in the country (Brazil is the 9th largest economy in the world, but ranks only 32nd in wealth generation per capita, and 117th in average Gini coefficient). Campinas has a Gini coefficient of 58%, which is almost the same as that of Brazil (59.3), a level similar to countries such as Zimbabwe and Paraguay. Such a level means that the top 10% richest make almost 70 times more than the 10% poorest.
This level of poverty contrasts with the high Human Development Index of Campinas, which is about the same level as Chile, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia. The explanation for this apparent contradiction is that side by side, even in the same city section, one can find walled condominiums with a yearly average per capita income of US$ 60,000 to US$ 100,000 and spreading "favelas" (slum cities) with incomes of less than US$ 800 p.a. The classes A and B help move the local economy, and provide a strong tax base for the municipality.
Until the late 1970s, Campinas was proud to have no favelas, but the increasing industrialization and wealth attracted hordes of destitute agrarian workers and urban dwellers with few job qualifications from all parts of the country. Land invasions were frequent and the municipal powers were unable or unwilling to suppress them, allowing illegal occupation of land in key sectors of the city (in Brazil, state and counties are forbidden by the Federal Constitution to restrict or even measure the free movement of citizens).
Demographics
Total population: 1,080,999 (according to the 2010 IBGE Census of November 29, 2010)
Population density (inhabitants / km ²): 1358.6 (IBGE / 2010)
Fertility rate (children per woman): 1.78
Literacy rate: 95.01%
Human Development Index (HDI-M): 0.852 (high)
HDI-M Income: 0.845 (high)
HDI-M Longevity: 0.787
HDI-M Education: 0.925 (very high)
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- Brazil 2009