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)

February 2026

Thanking God for:

Allowing our entire family to be together for a couple of weeks here in Brazil.
The progress on the property, especially the improvements around the café.
A strong beginning to the year with many churches using the property for retreats and events.
A successful soccer camp, during which we were able to evangelize and share the gospel with youth throughout the week.
The opportunity for some of our sons to study and play soccer for a few months at a Christian high school in Washington State.

Please Pray for:

Titus as he continues to recover from knee surgery and prepares to return to the United States soon with Zayin.
The Soli Deo Gloris Young Adult Theological Conference, planned for 2026 in Northeast Brazil. We would love to have international friends join us. You are warmly welcome!
The upcoming Carnaval Camp in a few weeks, that the Lord would work powerfully in the hearts of the participants.
The new students arriving to begin their year of studies here at Soli Deo Gloria Institute of Technology and Theology.

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