Alex grew up in a strong evangelical church in a city near Sao Paulo, Brazil. He left Brazil at the age of 20 to study in the U.S., and it was then that he met and married Katy. Early in their marriage, Alex and Katy served in Portugal with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Returning to the U.S., the Araujos settled into secular jobs and began raising a family. In 1987, they were challenged to return to missions as a career.
Alex and Katy currently work with Partners International, a ministry specializing in developing partnerships among missionaries and mission agencies, which work in the same regions of the world. Alex’s vision is to help bring together Christians from non-Western countries whose role in missions has been growing faster than our own here in the United States. These partnerships are crucial as they allow the missionaries to be more effective in their ministry to unreached peoples.

Agencies and missionaries frequently overlap in their ministry outreach and work. Partnering their efforts allows them to work more efficiently and effectively by utilizing each other’s strengths and covering each other’s weaknesses.

It can be a challenge uniting individuals from differing cultural backgrounds (ie. perspectives on time management, strategy, style of ministry, methodology, etc.). Alex’s first-hand experience and unique cross-cultural perspective makes him particularly gifted and effective in helping the Western and non-Western agencies to work hand in hand.

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