Teo started his ministry as a missionary in 2000. After serving on the mission field in Asia for 3 years, he spent 5 years serving as a pastor under of Kingsley Fletcher in North Carolina. In 2008 he returned to Brazil to serve as one of the pastors at Mount Zion Church in São Paulo. In that same year he founded the parachurch ministry called Dunamis Movement, which he currently leads. In 2013 he became the senior pastor at Mount Zion Church in Sao Paulo. In addition to his involvement with Dunamis and his pastoral ministry, he also has an itinerant ministry through which he has traveled throughout Brazil and over 30 nations as a speaker and revivalist, spreading the fire of the Holy Spirit and the love of Jesus at conferences and events. Teofilo holds a degree in psychology and theology from Liberty University (USA) and lives in Sao Paulo (SP) with his wife Junia and his sons Zach and Koa.