I’m Francisco José Ramalho, born in Citio Queimadas in the Municipality of Mauriti in Queimadas. I went to live in Conceição in Paraíba when I was five years old, I started my first years at school with teacher Dona Júlia; I was an altar boy for the late Father José de Souza Neto at the parish church in the city of Conceição. I was expelled from the Catholic church in Conceição because my father started attending an evangelical church in that city, so we had to leave the city and go to Sobradinho in the interior of Bahia for the construction of the Sobradinho dam. Then we went to Salvador, capital of Bahia. In 1977 I went to a city called Feira de Santana when I returned to Salvador and I suffered a car accident in the city of Amélia Rodrigues where I was in a coma at the Getúlio Vargas aid station in Salvador for 23 days without speaking, without hearing, without feeling. Through the prayers of my heroine mother, late mother Josefa Alves Ramalho, who lived in Sobradinho, praying every day, God delivered me from that terrible accident and I opened my eyes again after 23 days in a coma. I am a miracle from God! So I was not an evangelical Christian, only my mother was from the Lord who prayed every day for the whole family, my father possibly taken by the sect that he embraced did not take into account my anxieties. My mother suffered and prayed all the time for me and the other family members who didn’t know the living God. They gave me serum, injections, they operated on my collarbone and other parts affected by the terrible accident, I was discharged and continued the treatment at home. Today I am grateful for the prayers of my dear mother Josefa Alves Ramalho and I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart in an outdoor service in 1980 in the city of Simões Filho. And then the burning flame running through my veins so that I could be an artist, I was invited by cousin Elba Ramalho to go to Rio de Janeiro, there I entered the artistic environment.

Not continuing, I returned to Salvador in Bahia and there I had the privilege of meeting Bishop Átila Brandão de Oliveira, who at the time was not even an official pastor recognized by the convention of the State of Bahia. He invited me to the seminary in 1987 and I automatically entered the seminary that used to be the Instituto Bíblico Batista Nordeste do Brasil in Feira de Santana, today the Batista Nordeste do Brasil Seminary, I studied five years internally, after graduation, I got married and had two children: Tamires Ramalho (in memoria) and Francisco José Ramalho Júnior currently living in Portugal. I became a widow in 2005, my mother passed away in 2008 and my father later. In 2011, my brother and sister-in-law were already living in the United States, and I had the opportunity to come to the United States in 2011. I got married in 2012 to Mrs. Gladys Ayala, where I still live. In 2012, I created the Ramalho Linda Family Group project with the aim of meeting, interacting and fraternizing every 2 years. We are going to the 4th meeting that will be held in November in Rio Grande do Norte Brazil, soon in the United States and Portugal. Here I restarted the sociocultural, radiophonic and missionary project Missão Criança and also continued and accompanied my sociocultural musical artistic work. I am a Psychopedagogue by profession in Brazil, Pastor and student of the English course with Professor Daniel. I am the author and composer of several songs that are already on social networks and digital platforms. We work with independent sociocultural, radio and music ministry tvradioatlanta.com and Redefjr.com for the glory of God. I thank God for being in the United States of America, I thank God for having that specific gift from above, the artistic gift, thank you so much, my God! Here I have been developing my talent, my ministerial sociocultural vocation. May God continually be in my life and in my family , guiding , blessing
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