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Liz and I received the visit of 2 university professors from Recife this weekend at Green Pastures. Both are biologists (PhD & MSc). We knew Ana Carolina years ago prior to her going to Durham University for her master’s degree. Her husband we knew less previously. He is an ornithologist. They brought their 10-year old daughter with them so we took granddaughter Alice and Bia to play with her. It was a lovely weekend and I learnt so much from a professional ornithologist. They loved Green Pastures.


We were back in church for Sunday in Patos and the Communion service was greatly blessed. The sermon went well and at the end three people made commitments to Christ and another three re-dedicated their lives to the Lord. The church is so full these days always. It’s lovely.


Today I have worked on a number of ACEV administrative issues and also have sent out the proposed itinerary for our trip to the UK which I will post separately. Ben & Miriam Price have been in today from Ibiara so it was nice to see them again.


I need to prepare for a wedding on Saturday which I am conducting at a place between Campina Grande and João Pessoa. It is Josinete’s eldest son who is getting married. I also need to prepare the Bible study for Thursday and my sermon for Sunday as it’s a busy week again for sure. We value your prayers always.

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Last night’s mid-week service was again blessed of God wonderfully. There were about 50 present which is not bad for mid-week in this day and age! The Bible study went well as did the prayer and praise. PTL!


Today we are to receive the illustrious visit at the Green Pastures Nature Reserve of two renouned biologists from Recife, one of whom did their master’s degree at Durham University. We are really looking forward to the arrival of these experts who will doubtlessly make an important input into our work. It really is wonderful how God is bringing us so many expert professors to help our developing project.


I have prepared my sermon for this Sunday’s communion service and value your prayers also. Please pray too for the EAB Action Schools and Bible Colleges now back into full swing in a new academic year.

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Yesterday was an exhausting but good day taking 574 tree seedlings to Green Pastures from the nursery in Patos. My lumbago has pretty well disappeared in the process.


I have prepared my sermon for the communion service in Patos on Sunday and I have prepared the Bible study for tonight.


Liz is still not right after all her allergy problems and she went back to the doctor’s today who is going to do some further tests.


I have just posted a video clip of two raccoons having a punch up! I have seen so many videos of them coming to the watering holes at night at Green Pastures that I have lost count of the quantity and usually they come peacefully in pairs and leave equally peacefully. I don’t know if this video shows a dispute between two males or if husband and wife fell out?! The first bash would have floored Mike Tyson! https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmedcraft/16628795326/

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My lumbago was quite painful yesterday but is easing off today.


I went to Green Pastures this morning to see how the university professor was getting on organizing the tree seedlings plantation and everything was looking good. I was very happy to see a White Woodpecker for the first time there or anywhere. Loads of foxes and Raccoons too.


I have just got in from a meeting with a Tearfund person from the UK – Richard Lister. Now I am off to a Bible College meeting.

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Yesterday was a good day with more rain in the afternoon and in the evening. In Patos it rained 14mm and probably a similar amount at Green Pastures – although we don’t have the exact amount yet from Tarcísio. So we are getting some rain, but we need a lot more big-time rain to really get things moving here. We are getting lots of tree seedlings into place ready for planting once we get enough rain.


The church service in Patos last night was great. I dedicated two babies, received 4 new members into fellowship (3 were baptized at the Camp), preached on Christian service and Philip presented a report to the church on the Camp. The rain fell quite heavily towards the end of the service so that meant people stayed for a sort of after-service with praise, snacks and fellowship. PTL!

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We have had steady rainfall for the last couple of hours and it is continuing. I hope and pray it will rain through the night. Green Pastures reports that it’s raining there too, so PTL!


Please pray for grandson Lucas who has been in and out of hospital today with allergic respiratory difficulties. 


I have more or less finished the preparation of my sermon for tomorrow night in Patos. The topic is Christian service. I will also be dedicating a baby and receiving new members into fellowship.


QPR lost 2 x 1 to Hull today having been reduced to 10 men early in the match with Joey Barton getting a red card once again! They almost hung on for a draw… almost! Despite the result, which I had predicted as a Rangers’ win, I think I actually have increased my lead in the QPR prediction league! We shall see.

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I went out to Green Pastures this morning to check on everything after the Camp. All was already cleared up and cleaned by the team, not that our people make a lot of mess but there are always things to do. I picked up the memory card from the Infra-red automatic camera and was thrilled to find another first had been filmed: 4 foxes together drinking at a watering hole at 3.42am on the last night of camp when everyone was sleeping. https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmedcraft/16592289782/


By the way I forgot to say previously that we now have a Marmoset Monkey resident at Green Pastures. The environment people asked if we had a big aviary type cage to take one in as it has been badly treat in captivity somewhere and they wanted us to sort of slowly reintroduce it to the wild. Well it stayed in the aviary about a month after which it managed to find a hole big enough to escape through. However it never has left and moves around the trees and buildings and was the star attraction for the kids – very happy to be fed from people’s hands.


Last night’s after camp service in Patos was great. So many good testimonies. It was very encouraging. A real blessing! PTL!

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Edition 84 of the EAB “InTouch” magazine has now been printed and is in the process of being put in the post to all EAB supporters on the mailing list. If you are not on the list and would like a free copy then please send me your address or send it to the EAB UK office.

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We are now back in Patos after an excellent Camp with just one or two hitches – but overall a very positive and blessed Camp. Philip led the whole event for the second successive year and did very well indeed. Liz coordinated the logistics despite ill health and I preached twice and was in a general support role. We had 210 residents at the Camp and another 60 came into to the camp on a daily basis giving us a total of about 270. This is lower then previous years and I would put this mainly down to the financial crisis in Brazil which is now hitting this country hard, years after Europe and the USA had it tough. Thanks to some people’s kind donations via EAB we were able to allow some to come to the camp who wouldn’t have been able to come otherwise. The number we had was a nice comfortable number to cope with.


The services were really good, the messages on radical discipleship were excellent and the whole spirit of the Camp was lovely. Unfortunately Liz’s health was not good but she battled on despite it. Her allergy problems have not improved, affecting her throat and chest. She has been further medicated by the doctor since getting back to Patos and will being seeing the doctor again in the morning. Please pray.


We had the joy of baptizing 3 from Patos and 1 from Princesa Isabel at the Camp. It was a very blessed and victorious moment.

During the camp we had problems with poachers/hunters twice. Deborah and I caught them on the Saturday and Tarcísio caught them on the Sunday. What a pain!

On the final afternoon of the Camp I was preparing to preach at night in my room when I suddenly received a young man verbally abusing me quite awfully because his mobile phone had gone missing.  He was so agressive. It was terrible. He turned out to be a new person from our Itaporanga church who says he’s a Christian. He certainly didn’t give me the impression that he was. The episode and ensuing enquiries ruined the final service for me and I don’t know how I managed to preach. I felt it was very hard to preach and didn’t go well. The mobile phone has not been found so the mystery continues.


Despite this bad taste in people’s mouths one felt that the Lord blessed many people in the Camp and we thank all those who supported it and prayed for it. There is much more to praise about than the opposite. PTL!


I have just received the news that Phyllis Hurst, who was at the docks to see off the Mundys in 1938 at the launch of EAB, has today gone to be with the Lord. We praise the Lord for her faithful life of service to God to the end.

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This is the day that the big annual Carnival Camp kicks off through Wednesday. We value your prayers.


The difficulties of these days have been quite amazing (as referred to in a special prayer request email) with spiritist attacks of the black magic type, Liz really unwell (now on the mend), our grandson held up at gunpoint and now last night two known ex-convict thieves and drug dealers around our house a lot. These are days of extreme pressure. They even dumped stolen goods in our front garden and we called the police and had it taken away! We need your prayers please.

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It is absolutely non-stop here in preparation for this year’s Carnival Camp which runs Saturday through Wednesday. All the bedrooms, dormitories, kitchens, meeting hall etc. have been cleaned, re-painted where necessary and repaired. We needed some new locks, two new benches (sort of park benches) as the old ones were destroyed by termites, some new loo flushes and seats (many plastic things desintegrate with the heat), many new lamps. The electician will still be returning on Friday as another problem has arisen.


On the water pump side of things a tree frog got in one of the switches and short-circuited it. That has been replaced and the fountain pump has been fixed too. The Nature Reserve area has had its fencing altered and finalized and signs put on the gates. The trail right round the reserve has had bushes and branches trimmed back for people’s walks.


I have finished my sermon preparation for the Camp and will be having a meeting later with Philip to discuss the question and answer times in each service in the mornings. Philip is the Camp leader like last year. I am glad to report that my throat is much easier, but still not 100%. Please pray. The other pastors who will be speaking at the Camp are all ready to roll. We are looking to God for another greatly blessed Camp. 


Please pray for the rain situation at Green Pastures as we badly need lots of rain soon. 


QPR managed to win at Sunderland on Tuesday so are now just to say out of the relegation zone on goal difference. Let’s hope they can keep in winning ways.

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I value your prayers as I prepare my sermon for the last night of the Carnival Camp which starts this Saturday. I don’t feel so well today having had a bad throat for a few days now. 


The team is all working like the clappers ready for the Camp. The easy way to remember when Carnival is each year is working backwards from Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the last day of the Camp and this immediately follows Pancake Tuesday (which I never have forgotten since my childhood with my Mum tossing the pancakes in the air). The Camp starts on the Saturday prior to Pancake Tuesday and Ash Wednesday! It couldn’t be easier!


Ash Wednesday here is when the catholics go to mass to get their sins forgiven which they committed during carnival and the priest gives them a big charcoal cross sign on their foreheads to prove they are OK.

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Tomorrow QPR travel to Sunderland and I have predicted a draw of 1 x 1 at half-time and 2 x 2 at full-time with Rangers’ goals to be scored by Zarete and Zamora. Clearly we need a win, but a draw would be a miracle as we haven’t got a point away from home all season. With the defeat against Southampton with their “last ghasp” (their words on their site) on Saturday QPR look increasingly destined to relegation. Their next games against Sunderland and Hull are must-winners, but it’s difficult to believe they will win either of them. They can’t even get themselves a new manager! Oh boy!

I continue at the top of QPR’s prediction league by the way: http://qprtillidie-predictionleague.webnode.com/table/


I am working hard today on administrative matters linked to EAB. I know EAB’s treasurer will be pleased when I send her the paper trails I am working on… but it is a lot of monotonous work!


I have received the new signs to be put on the Green Pastures Nature Reserve gates in time for the Carnival Camp of the weekend. I’ll post a photo when they’re in place.


Liz’s Uncle Stephen (Dyer) died today, aged 91. Our prayers and condolences are with the family.

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I was off to Green Pastures at 6.30am with a university professor and a university student. We had a long brisk walk all round the nature reserve as the professor plans how and where to plant what trees as soon as we have enough rain. I got stung by a type of wasp whilst there but these things affect me little as I don’t have allergy problems. Just hurt quite a bit for an hour or so.


My throat is a lot better today. 


There is frenzied activity preparing for the Carnival Camp which starts on Saturday. At Green Pastures we had an electician and a gardener working on top of the usual people when I was there. Lots to be done but we are getting there. Please pray.

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The service was lovely tonight with a full church as usual, really blessed worship and the sermon went very well. I applied the principles of how the Father received the Prodigal Son to how the church must receive people from a wide variety of situations. 


The Green Pastures church is rejoicing with the conversion of two couples plus another man making a total of 5 this weekend. PTL!


Now it’s all stations go for the Carnival Camp which starts on Saturday. Please pray. 


My throat is pretty sore, but I managed to preach alright despite this.

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A thirsty Brown Racer Snake (philodryas nattereri) was filmed drinking at one of our watering holes this week at Green Pastures. The date on the film is incorrect. I find the 30 second film fascinating as I had never seen a snake drink like this before. This snake is fast moving and eats frog, lizards, bats and small birds. https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmedcraft/15840316244/


Liz went to Green Pastures last night with Josinete and only got home at nearly midnight. They took out supplies for the Carnival Camp which starts a week today.

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Liz and I have picked up fleas on our travels this week. Liz is especially badly bitten and we have both just been to the doctors and are now medicated. The jeep is having a special interior clean out too. Oh well… these things are sent to try us… or itch us!


On Wednesday night we finally had 20 mm of rain at Green Pastures. In Patos more rain fell too with 37.4 mm. We really need a lot more at Green Pastures now so that we can get planting our tree seedlings.


Last night’s “Praise, Prayer & Bible” went very well again. Another well balanced diet of the 3 ingredients. PTL! Especially good in the prayer time was a “hug-prayer” with me praying for and hugging an ex-convict who has come back to God and is trying hard to walk straight with God. He really was broken in the presence of God. The Bible study on the Parable of the Seed (Mark 4:26-29) went well too. 


Now to preparing my sermon for Sunday in Patos. I value your prayers.


The Patos EAB/ACEV School has started the 2015 school year with 182 children enrolled. PTL!

The EAB magazine (long overdue) edition 84 should be at the printers next week and hopefully in the post to one and all later in February.

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We have more torrential rain tonight in Patos – even heavier than last night. However we have no word from Green Pastures.


What a fantastic video we have from yesterday at Green Pastures via the infra-red camera. Wow! The date and time are wrong on the video as I changed the batteries and forgot to re-adjust. https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmedcraft/16253295507/

So Harry has resigned as manager of QPR. He probably made the right decision as it was not working. Let’s see if his replacement can do any better, whoever that will be.

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The Met. Office’s official rainfall total in Patos last night was 82.8 mm (3.45 inches). PTL! I am now going out to Green Pastures to see the situation there.

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We have had quite a good amount of rain in Patos tonight. PTL! We sure need it. I don’t know if it has rained at Green Pastures but the fact that Tarcísio’s phone isn’t working points in the right direction!


I have sent all the photos today to Dave Flowers in the UK who is producing the next edition of the EAB magazine ‘InTouch’ – so I’m looking forward to proof reading a PDF version soon. Thanks a lot Dave!

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Last night in church the folk had prepared this little photo show video about my ministry in commemoration of my birthday. I know it’s in Portuguese, but there are lots of photos which I am sure will give you the gist. It was very sweet of the church. https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=4CFADD9F2E10EDA5&authkey=%21AD-h5xerIsTCDk4

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2 Patos church babies have been born overnight! Jordan & Jordanya now have Miguel as a brother to João Pedro – born not long before midnight! Denis & Andréa now have Ayrla as a sister to Ayrton – born early this morning! Andréa was in church last night and we prayed for her! That’s the way I like mothers to be!


We are getting so much positive feedback from last night’s service in Patos. Wonderful! It was a great night in God’s presence.

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I am home after a great communion service – church packed out – lots of visitors – some decisions at the end and 5 others asked for baptism at Easter. PTL! Sermon flowed like a river. It was a really encouraging night.


Liz is still not home as she’s trying to sort some medicine out for Arthur who has some sort of itchy allergy problem driving him crazy and no doctor available as far as I know.

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I have just received the news that I remain top of the QPR prediction League! No doubt I will be inundated by requests for tips from a variety of Premiership managers and owners with the transfer window closing tomorrow night. These are problems that come with fame I guess! This coming Saturday we face Southampton at home so what should I forecast? I’ll have to give this some careful thought!


I concluded the preparation of my sermon for tonight’s communion service in the Patos church during the morning. I started the preparation on my birthday yesterday. I am ready to roll on the subject of the ‘edification or building up’ of the church as part of my review of our church’s vision.

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I am writing this with Liz threatening me to go without lunch if I don’t get to the table right now! Help!


My week has been a mad rush like this with journies to Conceição and the State of Ceará. Exhasting but great. I met up with Pr, Márcio of the new Nova Olinda church whilst there. I had great fellowship with my Baptist pastor friend Fred.


The problem is when I travel that the backlog of work is gigantic – but I have to get away sometimes!


The newly expanded Green Pastures Nature Reserve was measured by GPS this morning. Wonderful! The bird singing this morning was gloriously deafening!


Last night’s service in the Patos church was wonderful. I am now off with Liz to an Action Child leadership meeting. I value your prayers at all times.

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Philip is safely in India – hopefully asleep now as they are five and a half hours ahead of GMT. Sacha continues in Recife going into the final week of her course. Deborah is in João Pessoa with her sons and we are in Patos. Louisa is just off to the band practice as the service starts in two and a half hours time. 

I will be leading the service this evening, dedicating a baby and preaching on our church’s vision concerning being a worshipping church.


I have just realized that with Clayton away in João Pessoa (who normally does the visual aids stuff for the service – songs etc. for the big screen) and Philip in Mumbai who can also do it as a back up – we have nobody to do this. Help! Clayton has put it all together and will send it to me via email. Now trying to find someone to install it all in the church computer.


Just received news from someone who is going to send some financial help for the Carnival Camp. Many thanks indeed!

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Yesterday involved a very long tiring journey to Camalaú to inaugurate yet another well, but it was well worth the effort. Social worker Marah Danielle went with me in the jeep to give a talk to the ladies on health issues and Marcia Alencar also went with me to work with the children. We always start these events with health talks to separate groups of men, women and children. Then everyone comes together for my talk on the environment prior to the actual thanksgiving service at which the Gospel is preached. It always ends with my prayer of consecration of the well. The events are always joyful as was the event yesterday.


I am very tired today and need to prepare my sermon for tomorrow. I value your prayers. On the journey I had a lovely chance to chat to those that went with me. It was great to talk to Marah and Márcia and to get to know and understand them better.

Philip is now on his long flight to India. Please remember him in your prayers. Please pray for Sacha too still in Recife, going into the last week of her Cambridge teacher training course. She is doing very well, but it is a long haul!

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We have changed our weekly services sequence this year in Patos with house groups on Tuesdays and Praise, Prayer & Preaching on Thursdays. Many more are coming to the latter than was the case with the set up last year. I am really pleased with how things are going.


Tonight’s service was really good despite Philip (gone to India) and Sacha (still on a teacher training course in Recife) as they make a big difference in the praise and worship. Tonight’s service was packed with a fast flowing programme of praise, prayer and preaching + some testimonies thrown in from the youth that went to the 10-day Outreach.


Last night’s leadership meeting of the Patos church was excellent. Positive decisions and much unity.


I went to Green Pastures this morning and the second fence of the three being constructed for the nature reserve expansion is now done. This is good as the expansion will be done and ready for the carnival camp. The team preparing the buildings for the camp is doing well too.


Anyone able and willing to help subsidise the carnival camp will be most welcome. We need help to be able to help poorer people go to the camp by giving them reductions as many can’t afford the £25 for the whole camp.Please send designated donations to the EAB treasurer. Thank you and God bless you.

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With less than 4 weeks to go to the kick-off of the 2015 EAB/ACEV Carnival Camp at Green Pastures (the first was in 1979) the team started all the cleaning and painting work in preparation for February 14th. Liz, Philip and I also have worked on the spiritual programme, speakers, subjects etc. It is yet another big task which we have over the coming weeks. The preparation won’t be made easier with Philip having to spend next week back in India, but at least he’ll be back in good time for the camp which runs from February 14th – 18th. Of course Philip has all the band practices to fit in and he will be leading the camp – so do pray for him a lot over the next month please.


I have managed, at long last, to send off the first draft of the next edition of the EAB magazine InTouch to the UK Board. It is a relief to have got this ball rolling at last!


Tomorrow evening we have a meeting of the Patos church leadership team and value your prayers for this too.


I went for a good walk at Green Pastures this morning to check things over and relax at the same time.

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Last night’s trip to preach at Soledade went well. I took 3 of the Patos youth with me. The service was great and the sermon went well. Always so lovely to see a big group of vibrant Christian youth. The team was 70 strong this year and they saw about 20 make decisions for Christ during the event. PTL!


I got back late – slept in a bit later this morning – then went to teach a class at the Patos church Sunday school. I had lunch at Deborah’s after dropping two sacks of cactus plants at Green Pastures to be planted at the Cactus Rockery I am developing. I then led the service in Patos and preached. Full house and the sermon flowed really well. PTL!

Tomorrow the Jeep goes in for a service. My Jeep is for me the best thing invented since HP Sauce! Liz is returning from Recife tomorrow together with Alice and Bia. Philip & Gyl finally moved house yesterday.


QPR lost as I predicted yesterday so I think my lead at the top of the QPR prediction league will be slightly increased! We now have 2 weeks to get ready to play away at Stoke. A draw would be wonderful! West Ham have dumped this player (Zarate) on us and he is so unfit he can’t play. ‘Arry is losing the plot falling for old bubble blowing tricks!

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Our main mid-week meeting is on Thursdays with praise, prayer and preaching of the Word (Bible study) – so I’ve prepared for this today and am ready to go!


Prior to this we will have a little family tea for Bia who is 5 today – bless her heart. It’s a pity that her Mum’s away in Recife at an advanced English Language Cambridge teacher training course, but Bia is no trouble and takes it all in her stride.


News from the 10-day Outreach continues good. I’ll be preaching there on Saturday. Tomorrow I go to Manaíra to sort out a few project issues there. I value your prayers for all this.

I have made my prediction for the QPR prediction league for Saturday’s match at home against Man. Utd.  I have forecast a defeat for us 3 x 2. Of course I hope we win but consider even a draw unlikely.

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The very kind lady dentist (sorry I don’t know her name) has delivered Gymara’s mobile phone to our house in one piece and functioning! Thank you doctor!


Lessons learned: mobile phones do not travel well on car roofs and dentists are not only good at drilling teeth!

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Here is the latest hot news on Gylmara’s mobile! A dentist travelling in her car behind Gylmara saw her phone fall off the roof of the car and stopped to pick it up. She then charged after Gylmara sounding her horn… but Gylmara just put her foot down all the harder and the dentist lost sight of her in the traffic. This news has come back to us via the policeman!


Watch this space! We now have a lady dentist with Gylmara’s phone looking for Gylmara and we don’t know if her phone will work anymore after the crash to the ground as the phone doesn’t answer or give any sign of life when we call it!

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Gylmara (Philip’s wife) overslept and goes charging off to her new house, where they are in the process of moving to, because some workers were waiting outside to get in to finish off some bits and pieces in the house! In the panic to get in the car she put her mobile phone on the roof of the car and drove off! A policeman saw this and called out to her but she didn’t hear and put her foot down all the more!


The policeman has now come to our house to report the incident! Watch this space!


This blog passed the 134,000 visits mark yesterday. Many thanks!

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All preachers know that sometimes it’s so hard getting going on a sermon and then other times they just flow like a river! Well today has been a river day! PTL! Today I have the consolidated bases of both my sermons for Saturday and Sunday. I am rejoicing and keen to get preaching them! That’s always a good sign! Not that all is done… still more prayer, thought and adjustments to make… but both messages are well on their way. Thank you for praying for me someone somewhere. I feel it as I was a bit low and discouraged with one or two matters in the work earlier in the day, but the Lord has lifted me up higher! PTL!

Please pray for EAB income too as we are in an extremely tight situation… very tough at the moment. Please pray harder if you’re already praying!


Thanks to Linda Matthews and my sister Jean who spread the word about the EAB English Language page today properly and to their friends. May many more follow suit!

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We have now passed the 600 ‘likes’ on the EAB facebook page https://www.facebook.com/eabrazil . This is a very important modern means of communication for EAB as it is worldwide. We now have people following EAB news in this way in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as the UK, Switzerland etc. previously linked to EAB. This obviously doesn’t mean they are EAB supporters, but they can’t become supporters if they have never heard of us!


So again I come to ask you to please spread the word about EAB’s English language only facebook page as it costs you nothing other than a couple of clicks of your time!


So what you need to do to help is go to the EAB facebook page – click on the 3 dots to the
right of the word ‘message’ (top right of the page) – then click on ‘share’ – then write a few of your own words – then click on ‘share page’. Thanks a lot!

Just as a way of suggestion let me tell you what one EAB supporter wrote to her friends when she shared the EAB page in this way: “This is an amazing organisation doing fantastic work amongst the poorest
people in NE Brazil. Please take a few moments to read more about what
they do and encourage them by “liking” their page. Thank you”.

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The trip to Passagem to conduct a communion service, dedicate two children and preach the Gospel tonight will be the first time we have done it on an asfalt road. Only the second child I dedicated over 40 years ago was at Passagem and up till now it has always been an awfully bumpy dusty track to get there. Then 4 years ago we elected a decent State Governor who has administered public funds with honesty and efficiency and here we are driving right left and centre on tarmacked roads as a result. PTL!


Philip has gone to Soledade with the Patos church band for the big opening service in the town square tonight of the 10-day special evangelistic Outreach.


The Christians in Action group from Patos are in Ipueira in Rio Grande do Norte State at the church plant there tonight as well.


In the Patos church the deaf fellowship will be holding its main weekly meeting too – so all in all you can see how the EAB/ACEV Patos church is still a real missionary church to this day. PTL! 77 years on and we’re still marching for Jesus!

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