Not Easy, But Good

I’m Jaime Inácio Rosado, I was born on October 18, 1955 in the village of Peniche, in a family with some financial resources.
On January 1, 1957, when I was only two years old, I was sleeping, the building where my parents and I lived collapsed, leaving me under all the rubble.

Called the firefighters began the search for the baby who was sleeping peacefully. After some time I woke up, and it was because of the firemen crying with me and pulling me out from under the rubble without anything happening to me, not even a scratch (a board was across my body and protected me).So when I was 11 years old, my mother invited me to attend a service I went to.

The church, incredible as it seems, was located in the same place where the building had collapsed when I was two years old, as the building was rebuilt
and the house of prayer occupied the lower part of the building.
It was a Church where most of the brothers were already advanced in age, but who worshiped God like I had never seen. God has something always directed towards our lives. It was my first contact with evangelicals.

In 1968 Pastor Manuel Vieira do Couto opened a Pentecostal church very close to where I lived, and it was then that I started to attend the Church of God in Peniche. At the age of 16 I finished my studies in Peniche and came to work in Lisbon, starting to attend the Church of God in Olivais Sul as a Sunday school teacher.

I was later elected a national youth leader. In 1976, at the age of twenty-one, I married Lídia Couto (current number one at I.D. in Portugal) and in 1978 our son Samuel Rosado was born. It was then that I took over the pastorate in Peniche for two years, leaving then to pastor the Church of Povoa de Santo Adrião and later also taking over the Church of Olivais Sul, staying until October 1995.

In 1996 I took over the pastorate at the Church of God in Odivelas.
In August 2008 I was appointed National Supervisor of the Church of God in Portugal, a position I still hold today and at the same time pastoring the Church of God in Odivelas.

This journey has not been easy at all, with many tribulations and difficulties, but the Lord has helped me so far and he will continue to know that his word is fulfilled in each one of us.

“In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world JOHN 16:33”