This study proposes to reflect on the value of a ministry of comfort towards the Luso-Brazilian community in the U.S.A., especially in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey which is made up almost exclusively of immigrants. Our whole project was developed with the objective of preparing adequately 8 persons to carry out a ministry of comfort among immigrant persons in the above mentioned city. The group made some 32 visits to accompany persons that were suffering in residences, hospitals, nursing homes and Jails.

By way of a theological reflection that rescues the practice of comfort in the Old and New Testaments, as well as theological reflections that relate the human identity to the image and likeness of God, this study that has as its background a vision of holistic mission, discusses the necessity of the church to incorporate in its missiological and liturgical practice, specific moments so that the ministry of comfort may be exercised in a way that it will help a person deal better with the experiences of suffering, marginalization and discomfort faced daily in a distant land.

By way of a practical project that mobilized 3 different types of groups: lay assessors, ministers of comfort and equippers, this study shows how were the perceptions, the development of each level and the challenges found by each group in search of comprehension of the context of the area and in the establishment of a proposal of comfort for the Luso-Brazilian immigrant persons of that locale.

In that way, after the equipping of 8 ministers of comfort and the analysis of the obtained results in the total development of the practical project realized in the neighborhood, this study points to some considerations that are important to those who desire to develop that practice of ministry in their communities.