While a rogue supreme court justice is shutting down free speech and anyone who criticizes the current political regime, the Holy spirit is moving with power in Brazil, CBN reports.

The breakout of the Holy Spirit is taking place in northwest Brazil along the Amazon River basin and it’s transforming a region long dominated by the Roman Catholic Church.

The area, which contains 60% of the country’s rainforest, has a population of 30 million many of whom who live in small villages along the Amazon River and its hundreds of tributaries.

For years, evangelical missionaries have traveled by boat bringing the gospel to these villages with varying degrees of success.

But there have been dramatic spiritual changes in recent months, led largely by the FourSquare church.

Since the beginning of this year, the denomination has seen over 14,500 people water baptized. The young, old, men and women are giving their lives to Christ in unprecedented numbers.

Josué Bengtson pastors one of the 3,200 Foursquare churches in the region. He said in an interview with CBN that their goal “is to baptize over 30,000 people” by the end of the year.

Part of their success is due partly to the Roman Catholic Church’s top down approach where it struggles to send in priests from outside the region to minister in these churches.

Meanwhile, the Foursquare church takes a more Biblical approach and quickly trains up leaders within these small communities to lead their churches.

As we study the growth of the early church in the book of Acts, they recognized local leadership (Titus 1:5-9), who were then trained and supported by senior traveling apostolic and prophetic ministries.

The Foursquare is a pentecostal denomination with a membership of 8.8 million people in nearly 68,000 churches spread through 150 countries. The four fundamental beliefs of the denomination as outlined by its founder Aimee Semple McPherson and on which the denomination’s name is based are “Savior, Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, Healer and Soon and Coming King.”