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Testimony by Jacque Chanel, founding pastor of the first trans church in Brazil

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This footage was filmed and produced 22 November 2021.

Worship of the first trans church in Brazil that was inaugurated in downtown São Paulo. The service is given by Pastor Jacque Chanel who in addition to preaching the word of God has a chat with reflection, praise, prayer and social assistance for the transvestites, transsexual women and transgender men. At the end of the services, food is always provided to visitors and church members because some of them are homeless and live on the streets.

Interview translation: "Hi. My name is Jaque Chanel. I am from Belém do Pará, I am the pastor of the trans church ICM Sephora and we are here for the following: because Jesus, our beloved God, he is much closer than we all imagine, than we can all imagine, than vain philosophy of man can imagine. He's not up there in heaven, away from us judging us, condemning us... but he's here, by our side, living with us, living our whole lives. Protecting us, guarding us, loving us, including us, welcoming us. Mainly our LGBTQIA+ community. So make sure that Jesus is on your side. My story began when I was 13 years old, more precisely in the city of Belém do Pará in the denomination church of the quadrangular gospel. At 13 I started to have my experience with God, which brought me here to be the pastor of the first trans church in São Paulo and Brazil. I had a long trajectory in the Foursquare church until around 20 years old, when my pastor was murdered and from then on I started a journey within the fundamentalist churches until I had an encounter with the most inclusive Jesus within an inclusive church, where my experience walked and even arrived at the Sephoras ministry that was given to me to take care of the population of transvestites and transsexuals, evangelizing this population by holding meetings until reaching about 200 transvestites and transsexuals.
So it's a very big fight, it's a very hard fight it has been still very hard, but our work is spiritual, it is positive spiritual basis for these girls with all experience in the Bible and never in demonic practices or anything similar, but something totally welcoming through the holy spirit of God, to reach all these lives through evangelization as it is done in the fundamentalist gospel as well, but open for participation by all people because I believe in God's love without hypocrisy and God's love is for everyone .
So this is the basis of our work, God's love surpasses all. It surpasses all for all evil, it surpasses all human understanding to fulfill itself in the lives of all these transvestite and transsexual girls and all other people that can be reached by this gospel, regardless of sex, regardless of gender, regardless of color, regardless of race... All can be reached by Jesus with absolute certainty without any doubt.
So this is my life story, what I wanted to share with you and invite you to join our church that welcomes everyone without distinction, because the love of God is for everyone."

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