Pedro and Priscila (Lima) Albuquerque

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Priscila joined the CO Belo Horizonte team at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in 2008 as a campus staff. Since 2014, Priscila also serves as the Shepherding Coordinator. Pedro came to Christ through Campus Outreach in 2006. He graduated from UFMG in Environmental Engineering and joined the Resource Team in 2015. Pedro and Priscila were married in August 2015. Now as a family, they desire to help college students know Christ and grow through discipleship.

Braden & Aniah Dowdy

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Braden was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, into a Campus Outreach staff family. He grew up surrounded by Christians and believed in God’s existence but did not start spending personal time with Him through Bible reading and prayer until high school. Through CO at Wofford College, Braden learned how to be truly involved in discipleship community, through vulnerability and intentionality. He is excited to be a part of the transformation that God is working in Brazil through CO by building relationships and sharing the Gospel with students on campus.

Aniah was born and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina, and became a Christian in high school but experienced the most spiritual growth through her four years at Wofford College, where she majored in Physics. Aniah found Campus Outreach halfway through her freshman year, and it was through the ministry that she experienced true Christian community, regular discipleship, and teaching and accountability for sharing her faith with her peers. Aniah is very excited to take what she has learned and move to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to be campus staff.

Jeff and Amy Dowdy

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Jeff and Amy Dowdy met (and fell in love) at West Georgia College “many years ago.” Campus Outreach was instrumental in their walks with the Lord and both developed a passion for cross-cultural ministry while on a short term trip to Thailand with CO. After graduation, they got married and moved to Brazil and served with Campus Outreach for 8 years. They have four children: Braden, Simon, Lucy, and Everett and currently live in Milledgeville, Georgia where they’ve been actively serving at New City Church for the past 5 years.

Grace (Hanson) & Pedro Siqueira

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Grace grew up in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. At a young age, she came to discover that Jesus had many answers to our questions about identity, purpose, and satisfaction and that a personal relationship with Him was what she was really longing for. Since graduating from college in 2015, Grace has been seeking to help develop the next generation of world leaders in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, inviting students to investigate and consider the impact that knowing Jesus could have on their lives and the lives of others. In April of 2023, Grace was married to Pedro (a Brazilian), who works in the Wedding Business. Together, they hope their home and marriage will be used to encourage others in their search for fullness of hope, life, satisfaction, and joy in Jesus.

Joel Ladd

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Joel became a Christian at Indiana State University in 2007. Upon graduating in 2010, he began working as an ESL teacher (English as a Second Language) in Indianapolis. He has been on staff in Belo Horizonte since 2017, teaching English and laboring on the campus of UFMG. In 2022, Joel married Adriana, whom he met at his church in Brazil. They are excited to learn how to work in the harvest together in the coming years!

Vitor Letro

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Mary Kelly and Vitor met and became friends when she moved to Brazil in 2017 as a LEAD staff. Vitor joined the staff team in 2021, and they began dating. They married in 2024 and are now eagerly laboring on the campus in Belo Horizonte and mobilizing others to join His work all over the world.

James and Grace Pineda

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James and Grace Pineda live in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with their two little boys, Oscar and Elliot, where James serves as the Campus Director for CO Belo. James came to Christ through the ministry during his time as a college student at Troy University. Grace grew up in Brazil with her family and later attended Troy University, where she and James met. They are passionate about seeing Brazilians come to know and follow Jesus for a lifetime!

Lorrayne Salvio

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I connected with the Campus Outreach ministry in 2013 as a student on campus. I was greatly impacted by the lives of the staff – how they not only were able to share their beliefs about Jesus, but also had their lives transformed by Him. God used them to draw me to Himself and through the study of His Word, I found in Jesus the redemption, love, and grace I had spent my whole life longing for. After my personal encounter with Jesus, I spent 5 years being discipled. Over the years, the Lord used discipleship to grow my desire and vision to invest in others in the same way I had people investing in mine. Since then, by His grace, I have had opportunities to be a part of and see the fruits of His work in others while still in college, in my own family and at work. I’m excited to go back to the campus, to the same place God used to reach my life, and to continue to partner with Him in His work of transforming students’ lives.

Luca & Hannah (Crawford) Souza

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Hannah graduated from Troy University in Human Services in 2015 and has been serving in Brazil since 2016. She is part of the campus staff team. Luca became a Christian through Campus Outreach in 2016 while studying at UFMG. He graduated in Physical Education in May of 2017, spent some time working with sports management, then felt called to begin working in ministry in hopes that other skeptical students like him would come to know the Lord. He began as an intern in October of 2017 and has committed to serving the next 3 years on the COBH resource team. Luca and Hannah are engaged and getting married at the beginning of 2020. They have been impacted by the vision of the ministry in Brazil for reaching the non-religious lost, and are so excited to share the love they have received in Christ with the students on campus.

Fabiana & Diego Vidal

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Fabiana was introduced to Campus Outreach in 2002 and in 2003 she recognized her true need for Jesus Christ through conversations with her friends. She was hired in 2008 to split time working on campus as well as to use her gifts on the administration team. Currently, Fabiana works on the Resource Team as Event Planner and Assistant to the Director. Fabiana was married in November 2015 to Diego Vidal, who works as a lawyer in Belo Horizonte.

Larissa Vieira

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I grew up in a Spiritist family. I didn’t believe the Bible was all true or that Jesus was God. Until college, I had never even read the Bible, and what I knew about Jesus came from the Spiritist teachings my family and community preached – that Jesus was just an evolved being whose example we should all follow. God used my first two years in college to break me and show me that I could not have victory over my sin in my own strength and that only He could satisfy me. After two years of investigating and trying to understand who Jesus was through Campus Outreach, God opened my eyes to His truth, that Jesus is God and that my sins have been paid for on the cross! Today, as I build relationships with lost college students, I hope to reflect the love of Jesus and that they would come to know Him and have their lives transformed by Him just like I experienced!