Marli Camargo attended Haggai Institute’s Singapore session earlier this year and it was there she discerned God’s calling on her life.
Marli Camargo, living now for more than 10 years outside her home country of Brazil, decided to focus on evangelizing and discipling women from other countries. Here is the reason why:
She had gone to live outside Brazil in 1998. In 2005, when Marli returned to visit family in Brazil, she experienced a cultural shock because everything had changed. She discovered she had to readjust herself to a new church, new friends, new schools, new work and a new home to cap it all. But it was during this phase that she also grew closer to God. Gradually, she began to discern that God wanted her to use her cross-cultural experience to evangelize women visitors from other countries who probably experienced the same kind of uncomfortable change when in a foreign land.
It goes to prove that there is nothing in our lives ever classified “unusable” by God.
Marli’s cross-cultural ministry has begun to impact women and families from other countries who are in Mexico where she is currently stationed. She works as an educational consultant for primary schools in the whole region. This gives her great opportunities to reach local people as well as foreigners. In the place she lives – Cuernavaca – there are several families from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Canada, and Peru. She is prayerfully doing all she can to ensure that when it is time for them to return to their home countries, they will carry the Gospel with them to evangelize their own nations.
In Cuernavaca, Marli and her family attend a large local church where she functions as one of the Sunday School teachers. Her church receives around 600 children every Sunday. She is also a leader of a home Bible study group and goes to several homes to initiate and encourage Bible study, especially in the homes of foreign visitors who have chosen to follow Christ.
She openly admits that it was the Haggai Institute training that widened her vision and led her to think big. “During the time in Singapore, I began to see what God was doing in the whole world and how I am part of this whole process of taking the Gospel to all nations. I was deeply stirred by the sad reality that there are millions of people in the world who still do not know anything about Jesus Christ. I committed my life afresh for world evangelism.”
Marli is married to Luiz Carlos Camargo, CEO in a multi-national organization, a God-sent position, which has taken them all over the place: first Luxembourg, then London and now Cuernavaca, a region of Southeast Mexico. They have two beautiful daughters, Bárbara (15) and Stephanie (12) who are daily witnesses to their mother’s Kingdom lifestyle.
