About Steve Loopstra

Rev. Steve Loopstra Director, Your Servant in Christ Ministries Your Servant in Christ Ministries was born out of a heart to help God’s people love Him supremely, and to help them prepare their own hearts, families, churches and communities for the transforming presence of God. Rev. Steve Loopstra also serves as an instructor with The Sentinel Group, based in Monroe, Washington. The Sentinel Group is a Christian research and information agency dedicated to helping the Church pray knowledgeably for end-time global evangelization and enabling communities to discover the pathway to genuine revival and societal transformation.. Steve is ordained with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He served as an Alliance pastor for over twenty years. Steve, with his wife, Marilou have pastored in California, Iowa and Minnesota. In addition they have served as missionaries in Europe. Steve has helped give leadership to the prayer movement in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, in the Twin Cities area and in national prayer initiatives. Steve served for 11 years at the Executive Director of Prayer Transformation Ministries in Minneapolis, MN. Steve is an author, speaker, and prayer leader locally and nationally, a member of the National Prayer Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Church Prayer Leaders Network. Steve has also led prayer journeys to Mali, West Africa, Muslim N. Africa and Berlin, Germany. Steve leads Pastors Prayer Summits, Concerts of Prayer, and teaches and preaches on prayer and revival in churches and conferences.

Ministry News and Opportunities

We just returned from a three week trip to the U.S. to take care of various issues and to share the ministry with our friends.

We are so thankful for those we were able to see and those who helped us with housing. We had a great time at a luncheon at The Blessing House in Victoria, MN. Thanks to Angela Campbell for putting that together and cooking a genuine Greek luncheon!

We shared concerning our vision for revival and transformation here in Brazil and the preparation of the Bride for the Coming of her Bridegroom. The weekend before we left, I did an afternoon training with one of the key churches we are connected with. The Pastors asked me to help them “reignite” the fire of devotion and passion for the Lord.

The other part of our ministry that we shared was our distribution of what are known as Cesta Basica, or Basic Food Baskets. The need is great in our area that is fifth in the nation on the poverty scale. We buy these sets of basic foods and then distribute through churches we are affiliated with and going ourselves to needy communities. The last time Lane went to one of these communities, she took twenty of these Basic Food Baskets and there were 30 people there who needed them. That is why we have put together this introductory video to share with you the need and how you can partner with us for just $20 per month to feed a family with good nutrition for one month. About the cost of one cup of coffee once a week for a month. Not hard for us Americans, but in somce cases nearly impossible for someone who lives of of what would be $2.15 per day.

You can watch the video at our Youtube page here:

Thank you for considering partnering with us in this very important ministry.

And please pray for us as we get back into the routine. We arrived home very exhausted from this trip and are anxious to get, as they say, “Back in the Saddle.”

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A New Season of Ministry in Brazil

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History –

For six years, Lane and I had been living in a. beautiful mobile home community in Melbourne Beach, Floria. We loved our house, we loved our location, walking distance to the beach and to the Indian River.

However, there were other factors that the Lord was working on in our lives. One, there were NO ministry doors that opened the entire time we were there. Second, Lane had a lot of “loose ends” she was trying to deal with in Brazil. A stolen bank account that needed to be restored, her retirement that needed to be renewed each year in person (“proof of life”), and apartment that she sold, but the buyer hadn’t made payments in 2 1/2 years, and more.

In 2022, we spent four months in Brazil, in the Recife area, and the doors of ministry were wide open! I was ministering almost every week. Lane was able to get a lot of her issued done. And we returned to the States in February of 2023.

From February until July, the Lord was working in our lives, and revealing to us that His heart was for us to bring the message of revival and transformation to Brazil. So in July of 2023 we put our house up for sale. We prayed that the people who the Lord would choose to buy our house would be blessed, and that they would love it at first sight. Well, three days later, a couple from Virginia drove 12 hours to look at our house and the deal was clinched! They are believers and fell in love with the house at first sight. Imagine!

The end of August, we packed our suitcases, and our dog, Lara, and headed for Brazil. The Lord had provided for us to rent a beautiful apartment in a secure community.

In October, we hosted a “Typical Northeastern Brazil” breakfast for  over sixty pastors and leaders,

and we are now making plans for ministry in the Greater Recife area, a community called “CaroáSao Paulo, and Belo Horizonte.

Please feel free to return here to our site for updates and if you would
like to help our ministry, visit our giving/donations page.

God bless you and thank you for praying for our ministry here in Brazil.

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“Yes! I see Him!” Podcast for June 23, 2022

”YES! I SEE HIM!” PODCAST FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 23 – THE FOREST PRAYER MEETING

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Welcome to this Thursdays edition of “Yes! I see Him!” Today a special story of an encounter with the Manifest Presence of God I call… “The Forest Prayer Meeting.” Join us!

https://yesiseehim.podbean.com/e/yes-i-see-him-podcast-for-thursday-june-23-the-forest-prayer-meeting/

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