Gunnar Vingren

They studied the Portuguese language and preached the Pentecostal doctrine, initially proselytizing among Baptists in Belém and then to people living along the Amazon in northeastern Brazil.On June 18, 1911, in the home of Celina de Albuquerque, Vingren and Berg founded the first Brazilian Assemblies of God church.In the 1920s, Vingren moved to the south to extend the missionary activity, convening the General Convention of the Assemblies of God in Brazil, creating publications, and compiling a hymnal.Due to health problems, Vingren and his family said their goodbyes to the church in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil on August 15, 1932.When the family moved to Rio, she became the first woman of the religion to run a Sunday Bible school, and also started the newspaper Som Alegre, through which she began to defend the idea of women in the ministry.
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