Rev. Doug Leaman
Project Soli Deo Gloria
Aldeia, Brazil

"Brazil needs preachers, leaders, and churches that understand and live out the truth that Christianity is to be controlled by Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, and that it is all for the glory of God alone."
- Rev. Doug Leaman

Aldeia, Brazil

The Leamans are serving in
Aldeia, Brazil.

About Brazil

Official Name: Brazil

Capital City: Brasilia
(2,606,885 pop.) (3,451,549 metro)

Population of Brazil:
201,009,622 (2013 est.)

Population of Recife:
1,478,098 (Around 4 Mill. metro)*

Language:
Portuguese (official), and most widely spoken language. Less common languages include Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages.

Religion:
Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4%

Currency:
Brazil Real (BRL)

National Day:
September 7

Ethnicity:
White 53.7%, Mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, Black 6.2%, other 0.9%, unspecified 0.7%

Except where noted, information taken from www.worldatlas.com.

Rev. Doug Leaman

Biblical Counseling & Project SOli Deo Gloria

Born to missionary parents in the country of Brazil, Rev. Doug Leaman grew up in the Bible Presbyterian Church where his dad served as missionary and pastor for many years. After graduating from The Master's College in 1995, Doug worked in Brazil for almost a decade, during which time he married Leah. They learned about the language, culture, customs, and people of Brazil while developing a heart for ministering to Brazilian people. After 500 years of Roman Catholicism, spiritism, a growing secularism, rampant political corruption, and an evangelical world that is inundated with the latest fads from around the world, Brazil is in need of the winds of the Reformation.

Doug is an ordained minister of the gospel in the Bible Presbyterian Church. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Western Reformed Seminary and a Master of Arts degree in Biblical Counseling from The Master's College as well as biblical counseling certification through NANC. His mission is to teach biblical counseling/discipleship and to preach the gospel as far and wide as the Lord will allow in cooperation with churches faithful to the gospel. The Lord has now blessed Doug and Leah with a family of seven boys.

Please pray for the Leamans.

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Prayer Requests

Project Soli Deo Gloria, Brazil (Leaman)

March 2026

Thanking God for:

Thiago. After many years of therapy for anxiety, the Lord used just a few hours of conversation centered on the truths of the gospel and the Word of God to bring clarity and freedom. The Spirit opened his heart to see the true problem and he was quickly strengthened.
The continued progress on the property, especially improvements around the new café, and for a new cook who is helping Leah with the workload.

Please Pray for:

The ongoing impact of the Biblical Counseling Course being taught in different institutions, including our local church here in Aldeia.
Our sports evangelism day on the 28th, and for our theological conference in April, where pastors from various denominations will be speaking on the essential truths of the Reformation.

English Camp Soli Deo Gloria 2026 Application

News From Brazil

Dec 22

2025 Christmas Greetings from the Leaman Family

Doug teaching Biblical Counseling Class 2025

Oct 20

Biblical Counseling -Applying Theology to Daily Living

Jun 16

Rev. Doug LeamanProject Soli Deo Gloria Aldeia, Brazil