‘Offering Everything They Have’: How Small Churches Are Saving Lives in Brazil’s Floods

In the country's most secular state, tiny congregations have made a big impact by their disaster response.

For weeks, Tárik Rodriguez had been working on bringing a guest preacher and worship leader from across the country to help his church celebrate its third anniversary. In 2021, Rodriguez and a small team launched Viela da Graça Igreja in Novo Hamburgo, a small city in Brazil’s most southern province, Rio Grande do Sul.

Then, it started raining.

The floods have done more...