Center for Church Based Training

Ditmar Pauck
Regional Director, Brazil

Ditmar is the first Regional Director established as part of our Passing the Baton initiative and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ditmar and his wife Maura were both born and raised in Brazil. Around the age of 17, they each moved to different countries to pursue their studies: Ditmar in Germany, and Maura in the USA. Eventually, they met in Texas while in their final months of ministry preparation at Dallas Theological Seminary. There they discovered they shared the same calling: to come alongside new leaders (both lay and vocational) in developing countries and assist them through teaching, mentoring, counseling, and simply sharing life together. Ditmar graduated with a Doctor of Ministry degree and Maura received an M.A. degree in Christian Education, both with an emphasis on Leadership Development. Since 2002, the couple has been ministering in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Besides holding leadership positions in the local church as pastor and women's ministry leader, respectively, Ditmar and Maura have been instrumental in designing and developing the curriculum for the seminary of the Evangelical Free Church Convention in Brazil.

Our Passion...

…is to support the local church in its equipping role of bringing all believers to maturity and many to leadership for Christ’s mission of multiplying churches worldwide to God’s glory.

“It was he who gave some…to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” –Ephesians 4:11-13

Our Vision...
…is to awaken the Brazilian church to a balanced, healthy growth through whole-life equipping of leadership in the context of the local church.