Igreja Evangélica Assembleia de Deus
The Igreja Evangélica Assembleia de Deus was started in 1996. The congregation is comprised of mainly upper middle class Nikkei-Brazilians, but it includes a higher percentage of non-Nikkei Brazilians than the other churches. Even its pastor is a non-Nikkei Brazilian. There were no Peruvians in attendance, so that a man from India, Ravi, was the only non-Brazilian in the congregation. Its fifty members gather every Saturday and Sunday night for worship services and every Wednesday night for prayer meetings, much like the Associação Evangélica Pentecostal de Nishi-Koizumi church.
The church serves a spiritual function by providing services in Portuguese and a material function by helping the Nikkei-Brazilians find jobs. Unlike the Associação Evangélica Pentecostal de Nishi-Koizumi church, however, this responsibility is not left to the pastor at all. Instead the church has set up a committee that deals with these concerns.
