Crash Church (former Comunidade Zadoque whose leader came from the Christian Metal Force of the church Ranascer) is nowadays one of the most concise and stable underground ministry due to its years of experience in the field of Christianity in a context of headbangers, goths, punks, skinheads and all kinds of underground groups. Crash is now present in different parts of Brazil, but initially it was formed in São Paulo city and it was (and still is) led by Antonio Carlos Batista do Nascimento, known informally as Pastor Batista or even Batista Antidemon, Antidemon being his death/grind band formed in 1994, a band with a self-explanatory name.
And by his blessing Crash Church in Vale do Paraíba Paulista was formed, under the leadership of pastor Miro Cristo.
The region of Vale do Paraíba includes towns as São José dos Campos, Caçapava, Taubaté, Pindamonhangaba, Lorena, Guaratinguetá, Cruzeiro, Aparecida and there were many concerts in the past with Christian bands (specially 90's and 00's), some of them organised by the CMF (Christian Metal Force) and registered in this blog, but lately there has been no presence of any underground ministry or leader in the region, so the coming of the Crash Church has been very well accepted.
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| Pastor Batista prays for pastor Miro Cristo source: https://www.facebook.com/brunoalvessffs/posts/pfbid02WpssJD44p7MPrRY7EL9YaiiY5JLB2zpo1SZuMByMHaBUEda5ejuWL8AKFwW3YVD9l |
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| Official banner for the first meeting made by Bruno Alves dos Santos |
Official post of the first meeting on the instagram of Arquivo 12
The gathering happened on a Sunday, the 31st of August at 10AM.
The moment of worship was conduced by the Serpente de Metal's band called Oxy's (Ricardo Zacarelli, Rick Jesus, Priscila Liliane) with the guest drummer Sidney Ramos (former Faces of Death). Pastor Miro preached, served communion and even distributed some Metal Bibles urging the participants to give those Bibles to people of their circle of friends as a way of sharing the gospel.
It's worth mentioning that pastor Miro Cristo and Robson Ramalho actually led the project to have a version in Portuguese of the Metal Bible, which they achieved in 2020.
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| Pastor Miro distributing the Bibles |
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| Prayer to end the meeting |
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| Bruno Alves dos Santos, Emerson Olaf, Miro Cristo, Robson Ramalho, the people involved with the Metal Bible Brasil |
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| Participants |
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| Participants holding their Metal Bibles |
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| Robson Ramalho, Bruno A. dos Santos, Emerson Olaf, Miro Cristo, Sidney Ramos |
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| At the gates of Serpente de Metal |
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