The Amazon river country where Allen and Kim Yoder served for forty years.

ABWE missionaries to the Amazon · since 1980

Allen & Kim Yoder

Forty+ years of ministry on the Amazon.

Who we are

Forty+ years on the Amazon.

Kim grew up in the Amazon jungle, the daughter of a pioneer missionary pilot couple. Allen spent twelve childhood years in Guatemala as a missionary’s child. Two kids on two continents, each being prepared for the same calling without knowing it.

They joined ABWE in 1980 and left for the field about a year and a half later. What followed was forty+ years in the air and on the water: aviation ministry, a floating home, youth and church work, and biblical counseling. This is their story, and it is really about God.

Allen and Kim Yoder flying over the jungle in the float plane.
Allen and Kim Yoder together during the field years.

The Amazon film

Our years on the field.

This video helps to show some of our ministries along the Amazon, including the plane, the river, and the people.

Amazon film · from the archive

Where things stand now

A quick review of our years in Brazil

A summary of the years we served the Lord in Brazil and how we are currently serving in the USA.

Read the summary (PDF)
“Not dead, NOT done.”
— Allen

Forty years, four phases

Where God took us.

Bahia, the Amazon, Fortaleza, and the USA. The Lord took us a long way.

See our story
  1. Bahia the coast, 1980s
  2. Amazonas along the Amazon
  3. Fortaleza the city years
  4. Georgia back in the USA
Cover of Allen Yoder's book "In Him."

Allen is writing a book

In Him

True stories from the field, the kind that are hard to explain any other way than “God did that.” Get a free chapter now and a note when it comes out.

Read about the book