Many Brazilians, at least 30% of them, celebrate the arrival of the new year in an unusual manner: offering fruit sacrifices to Imanjá, the “goddess” of the seas. 
         Imanjá, as one of the key spirits of the dark world hierarchy, controls all the waters of the world… at least that is what they claim to believe. Not so!
         The faithful followers of the goddess will gather on the banks of rivers and sea on New Year’s Eve preparing large paper boats with loads of fresh fruit and candles to set afloat on the waters at midnight.  Hopefully, the goddess will return the gift with favor and blessings during the coming year.  False!
         The midnight ceremony is impressive not only because of the massive numbers of persons that gather about the banks of water, but also because of the brilliantly white costumes and the multiple neckbands of beads the “pai de santo” officiators use. Dazzling illusions!
These “pai de santo” (father/priest of the spirit) perform the main act of the night by launching out in a rowboat filled with sacrificial fruit.  Away from the shore, he will stand and ceremoniously offer the items to the invisible goddess as the crowds watch and chant. Then they set their little boats afloat.  Almost too sad to watch! 
Today, the morning after, many shores and water banks are clogged with rotting fruit, apparently rejected by the goddess.  Why?
The obvious reason why the fruit is putrefied is because goddesses cannot eat!  Why, then, would anyone offer food to a goddess that cannot eat?  Perhaps in hope that “she” will somehow calm the troubled waters of their shipwrecked lives! 
The “why” of those thousands at the water edge on December 31st is the energizer of the Apostolic Churches of Brazil!  We need to reach them before they drown in their dark waters of spiritual ignorance! 
Maybe that is the reason why most of apostolic churches are positioned within 90 miles of the Atlanta Ocean: that is where the greatest concentration of Brazilian (lost!) souls is located! Over 75% of Brazil’s population is located close to the 4,650 miles of coastline!
Yet, there are thousands of groups of people located in small villages and even large cities along the coastline without a single TRUE Gospel witness!  The numbers are frightening, but do not intimidate.