ABWE missionaries to the Amazon · since 1980
Allen & Kim Yoder
Who we are
God’s calling to Brazil.
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.
The Amazon film
Our years on the field.
If you want to see what the work actually looked like, the planes, the river, the people, watch this.
Amazon film · from the archive
Where things stand now
Our Post-Field 2026 letter
Written after we came home from the field. The same prayer letters we have always sent, now in one place.
“Not dead, NOT done.”
Four phases
Where God took us.
Bahia, the Amazon, Fortaleza, and the USA. The Lord took us a long way.
See our story- Bahia the coast, 1980s
- Amazonas along the Amazon
- Fortaleza the city years
- Georgia back in the USA
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