Episode 814: Hackers in Brazil

Hey guys, welcome to another Back to Jerusalem podcast.

I'm Eugene Bach, your host for this time, and I'm coming to you live on delay from somewhere within the borders of Brazil this time, where we are at probably one of the largest hackers conferences in all of South America.

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has been an amazing time I'm actually here with our director for the back to Jerusalem Brazilian office Danilo Danilo so great to have you with us brother

wow man I'm so happy to be with you here to host you here in Brazil again and to be with all of you I'm very glad to be and to talk about.

This is

something I didn't even know was here.

I think the very first Hackers Conference in Brazil was last year in 2025.

This is the second year.

You have almost a couple hundred people here and this has been a phenomenal experience of hackers coming from all over Brazil and different parts of the world as well.

looking at ways of solving issues for missionaries on the field, including back to Jerusalem missionaries.

So this year I gave them three tasks, three things that we need big time on the mission field.

One is moving funds to missionaries on the mission field.

That is the number one problem that missionaries deal with.

Any mission organization working in China, India, North Korea, Middle East, the number one problem they will have is banking.

bankings have really kind of clamped down and are strangling the missionary community.

And I believe that is the main reason why banks do this.

And there's many different reasons.

They'll talk about money laundering, funding terrorism, blah, blah, blah.

But the end of the day, the major purpose that the enemy has through moving through these bank structures is to shut down the spread of the gospel.

The second task that we gave to the hackers here was to help us simply get bibles into closed countries and to third thing was to help get the gospel into the area where it's most needed by using