Harold and Lílian Gilmer : February-March 2026 Prayer Letter

Harold and Lilian Gilmer – South America Director, Church Planter and Bible Translation in São Paulo, Brazil

Dear Brethren:
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).

70+ MILLION ACF BIBLE READERS!
This number sounds very impressive, but it represents only 30% of the Portuguese speakers, worldwide. This is a clear representation of the current reality in Brazil, where 30% claim to be “Evangelicals” (though we would not say that all of these are born-again believers). While we rejoice that over 70 million people read our Portuguese ACF (Almeida Corrigida Fiel) Bible last year, either in printed form or online, our attention is drawn to the 70% that did not read the Scriptures, which represents those who do not claim to be “Evangelicals.” Of these, 50% claim to be Catholics and the remainder 20% include other religions and non-religious people. We still have much Seed-sowing to do!

We acknowledge that in our own strength “we can do nothing,” and that we depend entirely upon the Lord for wisdom, capacity and ability. The Lord has given us wonderful partnerships who make this report possible. All glory be to God!

Printed Bibles – The total number of complete Portuguese ACF Bibles published last year was 820,320! Praise God, for His Word will not “return . . . void.”

Bible App – One of our key Bible App partners (Biblia JFA Offline) reported that 3,292,183 individual users read 133,797,877 chapters of our Portuguese ACF Bible in 2025! To God be the glory!

Online Bible Search – Our online Bible search partner (bibliaonline.com.br) reported that in 2025, 66.7 million active users, in 202 countries read 375.7 million passages of our Portuguese ACF Bible. Speechless!

Yours fellow servants in Brazil,
Harold, Lílian, Raphael and Danielle