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

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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

Leaman Family 2025

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.

Prayer Requests

Project Soli Deo Gloria, Brazil (Leaman)

October 2025

Thanking God for:

  • His clear direction and providential blessings upon Darius’s life in Greenville and at BJU!
  • Titus being in Brazil with the family and Zayin planning to arrive soon.
  • The good progress on Café SDG as we prepare for a partial opening in just a couple of weeks.

Please Pray for:

  • Wisdom and God’s blessing on a couple of new ministry initiatives at Project Soli Deo Gloria: 1) An evangelistic International Soccer Camp planned for January 2026. We are praying for local Brazilian churches to sponsor teams of underprivileged children who love soccer but cannot afford to attend camp. 2) A Soli Deo Gloria Young Adult Theological Conference planned for 2026 in Northeast Brazil. We would love to have international friends join us—you are warmly welcome!
  • Titus as he recovers here in Brazil from ACL knee surgery.
  • Project SDG, as we seek creative and sustainable ways to become more financially self-sufficient and to be able to finish off the year financially positive!

News From Brazil

Doug teaching Biblical Counseling Class 2025
Biblical Counseling -Applying Theology to Daily Living
Titus Graduation
2025 Summer Greetings-The Leaman Family
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Ministry in Brazil – The Leaman Family

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