Gerald and Iris Gessner are the Directors of Agape Amazonas Foundation, known as Fundacao Agape Amazonas in Portuguese. They moved to Brazil in 1997, with the intent of starting a program for helping children. In 1997, Hans and I flew to Manaus, Brazil on a pre-mission trip with the intent of building a church in 1998. We met Iris and Gerald our first day there in Manaus and found out that Hans and Gerald went to the same church in Germany 20 years prior to this time. Gerald was telling us that he and his wife just moved there and were going to be starting this project when he noticed her walking down the driveway. I looked up and it was Iris. I had met her on my first two week mission trip to Brazil back in 1993. God worked out all the details (and it is quite a story :) so that we ended up building their first Kindergarten for their project instead of a church. We have had the privilege of working with Gerald and Iris ever since. Check out our pictures under the tab Previous Mission Trips.
Fundacao Agape Amazonas is all about helping children to learn a better way of life through Education, Agriculture and Health and of course learning about Jesus and His great love for them. To learn more about Agape Amazonas Foundation, (Fundacao Agape - AM) go to agapeamazonas.org.* This website is in Portuguese. If you use Google Chrome as your web browser, hit the translate box to change to English. Make sure it says "This page is in 'Portuguese’" before you translate.
*PLEASE NOTE: We have experienced in the past outages lasting several days at a time on the Brazilian side with the Agape Amazonas Web Site. If following this link you get the message that their website is "not found", please try again another day. Thank you!
Fundacao Agape Amazonas is all about helping children to learn a better way of life through Education, Agriculture and Health and of course learning about Jesus and His great love for them. To learn more about Agape Amazonas Foundation, (Fundacao Agape - AM) go to agapeamazonas.org.* This website is in Portuguese. If you use Google Chrome as your web browser, hit the translate box to change to English. Make sure it says "This page is in 'Portuguese’" before you translate.
*PLEASE NOTE: We have experienced in the past outages lasting several days at a time on the Brazilian side with the Agape Amazonas Web Site. If following this link you get the message that their website is "not found", please try again another day. Thank you!
