“We are in the stadium, packed out in Orlando, close to 60,000 people, and I see Brazil soccer jerseys and Brazilian flags everywhere,” says Teo Hayashi.

Andy Byrd recalls, “I heard worship songs in Portuguese, and I thought, ‘My gosh, the Brazilians have come in force.’”

“The mic comes to me, I go through my script, but then suddenly something starts coming upon me,” Teo shares. “It was the Spirit of the Lord, and it just boils in me to the point where I stepped forward and let out this cry. 'It is time for Brazil!'"

“And I remember crying out, ‘You are a chosen nation. Brazil, let's go. It is your time.’”

“It was so evident that God is raising up Brazil as a catalytic spark in this hour of human history,” shares Andy Byrd.

Daniel Kolenda adds, “When we go to Brazil for The Send, I believe it is to see a move of the Holy Spirit spread from Brazil to the ends of the earth. We are going to see missionaries and evangelists launched out from that place.”

“A generation of hundreds of thousands of young people are being activated into their callings,” says Teo. “It is time to see a continent that has been under such spiritual awakening to rise up to the next strata of spiritual reformation. Our generation was born for such a time as this.”

Teo admits, "I remember being, to be very honest, fearful. Will we be able to actually pack out a stadium? I remember thinking, 'Lord, maybe half. If I could ask you for half a stadium, I would be super grateful for that. And we will work as much and as hard as we need to pack out half of the stadium.'"

“To our surprise, when we opened up registration, in a little under seven hours, the first stadium, Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, with 80,000 seats, automatically sold out,” he says. “I remember getting a phone call from the São Paulo football club, the owner of the stadium, and they said, ‘You guys just beat U2 to sell out Morumbi Stadium the quickest.’"

"We felt the Lord tell us, why not go for a second stadium?" Teo explains. "So we went for a second stadium in the same city, São Paulo, and we gathered in the second largest stadium of that city, maybe 50,000, 55,000, and that sold out in three, four days."

“We understood from the Lord we should go for a third stadium in our nation's capital, where a lot of the strongholds that we see are reflected in the ills and injustices of our nation,” he continues. “We made that our third stadium in Brasilia.”

"And there we were, before us, a gathering of three simultaneous stadiums, close to 160,000 people gathered physically, and also 2.2 million people watching online," Teo shares. "There was so much hunger and surrender in all three stadiums, and the call to action came so clear. We had tens of thousands of young people saying, 'Here am I, Lord. Send me.'"

“I really believe that the surrender and hunger in that room was what sustained most of the Brazilian church and the young people through the pandemic years,” Teo says. "The Lord sent us into our secret places. And out of those secret places, as soon as the pandemic was over, you just saw an increase of hunger and momentum."

"And we have been experiencing this increase of momentum up to now, 2025," he says. "There is still so much fresh passion to see the Lord Jesus glorified in the nations. We are still feeding the fire and seeing a lot of young Brazilians making it to the nations, going into different spheres of society to disciple Brazil and the nations of the world."

“And yes, we celebrate salvations, baptisms, and church growth, but we are also contending to see these souls become ambassadors of the kingdom, to make Brazil a reflection of heaven on earth.”