Ken and Isaura
Ken is the son, grandson and great-grandson of missionaries and is also the third generation of his family to serve God in Brazil. He was born in the small interior city of Registro, in the state of São Paulo, in 1972. In 1978 his parents went to the state of Rondônia to plant churches, where he spent a good part of his childhood. When he was 16 and in high school, he moved to Canada. Later, he studied at Prairie Bible College. He also studied computer technology at the South Alberta Institute of Technology.
From 2000 to 2008, Ken was a missionary under the covering of South America Mission, serving in the Ammi Training Center, in Chapada do Guimarães in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. At first, he helped maintaining the computers, and, later on, doing the books.
In January of 2008, after getting to know Isaura and Project Amazon through mutual friends, Ken visited Santarém, where he went on a missions trip on the Amazon and Arapiuns Rivers. In April of 2009 he visited a second time, this time to get engaged with Isaura, believing that this was the perfect will of God.
Installing a water filter
With the support of his church in Canada, Ken joined Project AmaZon and soon after moved to Santarém. In December of 2009 he married Isaura to, together, serve God in the Amazon.
Isaura is a native of the Brazilian state of Pará. She was born in Santarém in 1967, the daughter of Manoel and Ilza Pereira. Her parents passed away when she was still a child, making her childhood and adolescence very difficult. She gave her life to Jesus in the beginning of 1990, in Rio de Janeiro, where she was living with relatives. She returned to Santarém in ’91 and soon after began attending the local PAZ church.
Portador da Luz, our home away from home.
In 1992 she participated in PAZ’s Bible Seminary, also doing an internship for 4 months on PAZ’s health boat Portador da Luz (“Bringer of Light”). In 1993 she felt a call to full-time missionary work and began to help PAZ in the office. Soon after she began to work in health ministries as well as teach local workers. In ’96 She was sent to the PAZ base in Belém where she served in several capacities, even pastoring a church!
At the end of 2002 she returned to Santarém to work in the office as the secretary while taking a basic nursing class. Her internship, once again, was onboard the Portador da Luz. During this time, Isaura felt a strong confirmation to her call in medical missions. So in 2005, she enrolled in a local university to gain her nursing degree, and in 2009 graduated!
Our Ministry
Isaura helps coordinate the Health Ministries at PAZ’s Santarém base, often personally leading the ministry trips while serving as a nurse. Together they work on the Water Filter Ministry, educating on the need for and proper use/maintainance of the water filters. The Health and Water Filter ministries are integral part of PAZ strategy for church planting .
Ken translates written material from English to Portuguese from time to time. He is looking into be more involved with the website maintenance and possibly helping in the mission office.
They are also involved with the church ministry at PAZ church here in Santarém. PAZ is a church in cells after the Apostolic Discipleship Model. Isaura is an Area Supervisor with 36 cells under her care. Ken helps Isaura with her supervising duties and leads two cell groups, which he hopes to multiply soon and became a sector supervisor. Our Tuesday and Wednesday evening and saturday afternoons are mostly taken with cell related activities.
At the moment Ken disciples a couple single guys, Isaura disciples a few single gals, and together they disciple a few married couples. Our Thursday and Friday afternoons are mostly spent on discipleship.
The PAZ church has joined the Gedeões de Oração (Gideons of Prayer) and has designated several 24 hour prayer towers. Ken and Isaura turn on the prayer tower is on Friday mornings from 8:30am till 9:30am.
They also help in encounters, retreats, camps, fund-raisers, and other church activity in various capacities.
You can contact us . . .
by email at:
orr.ken@gmail.com
by regular mail at:
Ken & Isaura Orr
Caixa Postal 232
Santarém, Pará
68005-080 Brazil
