Pastor Adriano Magalhães was born on August 28, 1977, in a small family in Rio de Janeiro. He has been married to Andrea since 2008 and has three children: Maria Eduarda, Emanuela and Arthur. He graduated in Theology from the Agape Institute of Theology where he completed his training in the year 2016.

Ministerial member of the Christian Agape Centre since 2009, he returned to Brazil in 2012, but never lost contact with the main church in Auckland. He has developed some missionary work with CAC – Brazil and other partner churches in this period. He returned to New Zealand in May 2017, where he has worked as a pastor at the Christian Agape Centre ever since.

Areas of expertise:

• Department of Samba: Adoração Samba Club
• Teacher of Agape Institute of Theology – Basic Level
• Discipleship – New members