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I hereby notify to all and sunder that I predict that today QPR will win at home against Sheffield United. In the first match of the season I predicted correctly that we would lose. We will see what happens.


We are flat out here preparing for our trip to Europe a week on Wednesday. As you can see on this blog I am doing all I can to get maximum numbers present so please help us! I have also sent lots of invitations and confirmation requests via Facebook on EAB’s page and on my own. I have done the same via email to many. I am glad that answers are coming in but await more.


The 12 short videos are completely ready now for showing round the churches. Just the longerish one to do now for the Celebration. 


I will be preaching tomorrow in Patos on Father’s Day. The sermon is prepared and ready to roll.


Did some counselling too yesterday. It went well. 

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I am trying to make sure we have a good
number present at EAB’s 80th annual celebration next month. Please could you
help? Please tell me if you plan to be there and if you know anyone else who
can go and support the event in praise to God. Both golden oldies and young
boppers are welcome!

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Two weeks today to lift-off! UK here we come with 11 short videos now completely ready (1 to go + 1 “best moments” bumper edition for the annual celebration to go). A keepsake bookmark is in production too for all around the churches. Here is our schedule which you can’t miss!! (we hope)


August: 23 Arrival at Heathrow / 26 Hardley Southampton am + West Wellow pm


September: 1 Weston Super Mare (must see the new pier!) / 2 Bristol Ivy am + Bristol PHC pm / 3-8 Swiss Alps (what a hard life these missionaries have! – Liz’s birthday on 8th will be celebrated in 2 countries – Switzerland am and UK pm) / 9 Verwood, Dorset am / 16 Welsh Wales am / 20 Hylton Castle, Sunderland pm / 23 Great Lumley am + WVCC, Bishop Auckland pm / 25 Horden, Peterlee pm / 28 EAB Board Meeting pm / 29 EAB’s 80th Annual Celebration preceeded by auction for EAB conducted by world’s greatest auctioneer + refreshments!) pm / 30 Cadnam am + Winterslow pm


October: 7 Bonnie Scotland / 14 Thamesmead am / 21 Danbury, Essex / 28 Devizes am / 31 Return flights to Brazil.

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Oh boy! What I’ve got done today is nobody’s business! Masses of work on the sanitation project, 4 legs project plus loads of other work preparing for euro-trip 2018 which lifts off 2 weeks this Wednesday.


We now how 9 short videos completely ready with English commentaries – the lot! Done are: Wells, Market Gardens, 4 Legs, Evangelism & Church Planting, Community Sanitation, Food Bank & Soup Runs, Caring for Creation, Deaf Ministry and Action Child projects.


To finish we have Leadership Training, Desert Flower and Young at Heart projects plus a longer special video for the EAB annual celebration on September 29th.

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The weekend went fine and now it’s flat out preparing for the August 22nd lift-off for Europe!


Saturday at Curral Velho (Old Cow Pen) all went very well. We had a nice fellowship meal at the leaders’ (Tica & Ramos) house prior to the service and discussed a lot of issues which was good and helped them. Then the service went great. We got home at 11:30 pm so it wasn’t too bad. I was just sad because I killed 2 young foxes on the trip home in different incidents. I did everything I could to avoid the young foxes but it was impossible other than by turning the car over which wouldn’t have been good!


Philip preached at the Portelo church on Saturday night too and took the band from Patos. They got back at 3 am! Ugh!


The Communion service in Patos was lovely on Sunday night. A good service with a good crowd.

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I have just rounded off my sermon preparation for tonight’s 28th anniversary service at Curral Velho (Old Cow Pen) and am ready to roll. We will travel there this afternoon and have a fellowship meal with the couple who lead the church, Tica and Ramos, before going to the service. I am looking forward to it.


Curral Velho is a small town or village. The entire County only has a population of 2,500 which includes all the farming communities in the 180,500 square kilometers of the county. It is hot, dry and poor. The United Nations’s HDI (Human Development Index) which reports on life expectancy, schooling and living standards has Curral Velho as low (0.595). 


The trip to get there takes about 2 hours. We’ll be travelling back late tonight and value your prayers.

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I am a bit late in making my first prediction of the season as the match started 20 minutes ago, but my prediction for today is that QPR will lose. The match is still 0 x 0 as I post this.

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I have worked for hours today on video productions for our UK / Switzerland tour of EAB supporters and supporting churches. We now have 9 short videos almost completed of an average of around 3 minutes in length each. The ones nearly completed are on the following EAB projects: Wells, Market Gardens, 4 Legs, Evangelism & Church planting, Community Sanitation, Food bank and Soups runs, Caring for creation, Deaf Ministry and Action Child. 


Still needing more work are 3 more on: Leadership Training, Desert Flower and Young at Heart projects. There will also be a 10 minutish video with the highlights of everything for the annual celebration including some exclusive extras.


The 9 videos virtually ready have the visual part all finalized plus musical soundtracks, and today we recorded the commentary sound tracks in English with Liz and I, plus daughter Sacha and grandchildren Felipe and Alice all helping. Quite a team effort. The other 3 short videos plus the bigger highlights video still need visuals definitions plus muiscal and commentary sound tracks.


We are not exactly sure how this is going to be done as we’ve never worked with videos around churches before, but Liz and I feel we will speak to each church interspersing our messages with different videos as we feel led. At the 80th celebration we will both also speak and show the larger longer video too. This is what we think may happen but we will see how things work out as the Lord leads.


The 80th EAB annual celebration will be near Southampton on Saturday, September 29th. We will have a fellowship get together with refreshments starting at 5.30 pm, which will include an auction of Brazil related items, and with me as the auctioneer as usual! The Celebration service will start at 7.00 pm. 


We value your prayers as we continue the busy preparations for our trip. Larger organizations have staff to do all these things but we have to do the lot! This is on top of regular ministry here preaching at Curral Velho (Old Cow Pen) on Saturday and back for the communion service in Patos on Sunday plus a school visit to Green Pastures this Friday morning and a Patos Bible College meeting in the afternoon.


The Postal EAB Update was sent in the post yesterday.

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Last night’s service went very well. It’s funny but I didn’t feel I’d communicated as well as I might have done in the sermon but I had more positive feedback from people afterwards than usual! So praise God anyway!


It’s been a hectic Monday morning. One church member’s father has died in João Pessoa so I’ve been in contact with him. I have also been sending out the schedule to everyone involved in preaching in Patos in my absence. I have also been in discussions with Adriana who is coordinating the new EAB ‘Jobs ‘r Us’ project helping people get jobs or improving what they already do or helping them getting an idea they have into action. I checked out a new song for the praise and worship group too and so it goes on!

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Yesterday involved Liz and I in a two hour journey west of Patos to Conceição where the EAB/ACEV church had its 69th anniversary service and at which I preached. We arrived early in time for a chat, fellowship and a meal with the local pastor Maésio and his wife Fia and all went off beautifully.


The service was excellent and I preached with great freedom. The church was full. One thing which is lovely at this church is that they have a band which plays worship songs in our regional musical style, which I love, as they were a non-Christian band prior to the entire group coming to Christ. That was a highlight. We had the long drive back late at night afterwards but all was well. Just a bit tired today.


It was nice to see at Conceição Josias Price, Ben & Miriam Price’s son, who is in Brazil for a short visit. He sure has grown!


We will be off to the Patos church shortly where I will be preaching on Colossians 3. 

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As always happens at this time of year, though this time round the difference is extreme, here in northeast Brazil temperatures are cooler in the low 30s at the moment and in many parts of Europe they are in the high 30s. What is more – our bodies are adjusted to heat, and houses are built for it. In the northern hemisphere it is the opposite. Plenty of cold or very cool showers are vital folks!


On Tuesday our Action School/Child teachers training day went very well. We are in the middle of the school year break with the second semester starting next week.


Yesterday Liz and I had a very good long meeting with Pastor Wostenes (vice-chairman of the leadership Board here) and his wife Gleydice and that was excellent. We discussed a wide range of issues affecting the work here including possible planned expansion of EAB/ACEV to Natal in Rio Grande do Norte State as well as to Recife. Also the church plant at Pocinhos was discussed, plus other outreach and project team matters.


I have agreed to preach at Pastor Wostenes’ EAB/ACEV Campina Grande church’s 50th anniversary service on November 11th just after returning from the UK.


It is lovely that the Green Pastures Nature Reserve and Christian Conference Centre also serves as a pastors and their family’s refuge. This week Pastor Wostenes and his family are spending the week there having a totally relaxing break. It was them that asked us to go for the 3 hour meeting yesterday and not us invading their break. It was lovely fellowship anyway.


Now I must get on with sermon preparation for the weekend at Conceição and Patos and this afternoon I have meetings lined up with our projects coordinator Lindon Carlos, the Christians in Action group leader Dedé and a lawyer helping me to help a couple in the Patos church adopt a baby. So it goes on! Your prayers and support are valued for everything.

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With just under a month to our trip to Europe life is increasingly more hectic than it always is. As well as umpteen pastoral issues in the local church, overseeing another 82 churches of all shapes, sizes and locations, overseeing countless projects, keeping the Green Pastures Nature Reserve and Christian Conference Centre ticking over (a Baptist Church Sunday School was there at the weekend + university professors doing research + an ACEV/EAB Christian Conference for 100 women on our last weekend before we fly out to Europe), preaching at anniversary services at Conceição (this coming weekend) and at Curral Velho (the weekend after) etc. Help!


I am working flat out with our communications man putting the videos together for our tour of churches in the UK. So far done, apart from the English language sound track, are videos about Wells, Organic Market Gardens, 4 Legs, Evangelism & Church Planting and Community Sanitation Projects. 


The Desert Flower service on Sunday night was incredible! It was a great victory in which Sacha was mightily used of God in ministery in worship as we were in the middle of a massive spiritual battle with every gadget in church imagineable going wrong – but we made it and impact on many lives was wonderful. 5 women from the project turned up in the end plus 2 of their children. It was really positive.


We value your prayers for everything prior to our flight to Lisbon and then Heathrow leaving August 22 and arriving August 23. 

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Congratulations to Jenny Shearing getting married in the Cotswolds I believe today. Her father conducted Liz and I’s wedding nearly 49 years ago! Jenny gets married today for the first time in her seventies. Quite a story! Very happy for you Jenny and your lucky husband!


We’ve had a hectic and blessed week in the work here. I’ve prepared sermons galore. Tonight I’m preaching on a farm not far from Green Pastures and tomorrow in Patos. Tomorrow is the second service linked to the women of the Desert Flower project but this time few are saying they will go as their spiritist links kick back at us! It is a real spiritual battle this project and the spiritists have organized deliberately a special ‘possession session’ to coincide with our service. We are pressing ahead anyway and value your prayers.


I had a good meeting with Action Child leaders. Praise God our EAB Action Child Schools are going great again after the reorganization. 


I’ve also had masses of meetings and discussions with umpteen leaders during the week. Every day brings new challenges and issues to be sorted. Church issues, project issues… so much… but the Lord is with us in it all. Thanks for your prayers and backing.

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I preached on Friday night at the Outreach weekend in São Mamede County and it was a beautiful meeting. Over the weekend 5 decisions were made for Christ. PTL!


Then on Saturday we travelled to preach at João Pessoa and that went particularly well. A real blessing and good meetings with all the pastors from that region too.


We are now back in Patos, a bit tired, but off to church shortly for the evening service. Thanks for all your prayers and support.

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I predicted France would win the FIFA World Cup final and I was right but… in my view the best team lost. It is a pity. This World Cup has been very good but was spoiled by referee errors in the final match of all times! As so many commentators worldwide are saying France’s first goal came from a wrongly given free kick and their penalty was a ridiculous decision as the Croatian player’s hand was hit by the ball and in no way was a deliberate hand ball. Hence the score was in fact Croatia 2 x France 2 x Referee 2. Such is football that these things happen, like Maradona’s blasphemous hand of God goal and the England goal against Germany years ago which was 3 miles over the line but the referee didn’t see it. Sorry France but you were second best on the day, but you are World Champions anyway!


At the end of this World Cup my predictions record is pretty good with a 73.33% correct prediction percentage!

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My sermons are prepared (just finished) – first for this Friday evening at the ex-slave community a few miles from Green Pastures where we will have a team of 30 in the area evangelizing Friday to Sunday. This sermon will be rigorously evangelistic.


Then the second sermon is for the 24th anniversary of the mother church at João Pessoa. EAB now has 7 churches in the area with just over 300 Christian participants. 


Liz is at Green Pastures at the moment having taken food supplies there for the team which moves in there tomorrow for the evangelistic weekend. 

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My predictions for the semi-finals of the World Cup were half right with France in the final but not with England. England missed good chances in the first half and then lost their way with Croatia deserved winners in the end. My prediction for the final is that France will become World Champions on Sunday. In the third place play-off on Saturday I wobble… but I’ll predict Belgium for 3rd place.


Please pray for the 3 special outreaches this weekend at Barra de Oitis (ex-slave) + Belém + the Green Pastures area. I will be preaching at the latter on Friday night and at João Pessoa on the coast this Saturday. 


Please also pray for a change we are going to have to make in the Projects leadership team that the Lord might help us to do it right and without causing unnecessary hurt. It’s going to have to be done because someone can’t cope but it’s never easy to handle these matters.

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This Tuesday I was asked by a media team from the Renew Our World Campaign, which is a worldwide campaign amongst churches of all denominations striving for the caring for God’s creation, asked me if I would do a filmed interview for them to show our Green Pastures Nature Reserve and Christian Conference Centre as an example of what can be done in the semi-arid north-east of Brazil with no rubbish, no chopping down of trees (to the contrary lots of planting), no hunting and no insecticides. It went very well and they loved it. All glory be to God!


I went to our deaf pastor Luiz Carlos’s third graduation ceremony yesterday! The guy is a genius and now a graduate in LIBRAS (Brazilian sign language), Theology and Physical Education. He has now gone on to do post-graduate studies in LIBRAS!


Just a few minutes to go to England’s World Cup semi-final. I was right about France winning yesterday so I hope I will be right again today and that it will be an England x France final!

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In the second round of the FIFA World Cup I predicted 6 out of 8 winners correctly (75%) and I kept up the same percentage of correct predictions in the quarter-finals with 3 out of 4 right. I just got Brazil wrong but it was a totally deserved victory by Belgium.


My prediction for the finalists a week today is that the final will be between France and England.

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Our son Philip had his 40th birthday yesterday and we had a nice family meal together in the evening to celebrate.


I also sorted out a number of issues at Green Pastures yesterday and had a very long walk which was good.


I had discussions with the ACEV leadership team yesterday on a number of matters. I also had discussions regarding the special outreach in the Green Pastures region to be held from the 13th to 15th this month. I will preach in the first evangelistic service on the Friday, before travelling to preach in João Pessoa on the coast the next day. I will be preaching this Saturday (7th) at Matureia up in the mountains and back in Patos on the Sunday.


I had discussions with the Action Child coordination team yesterday and we will have a training refresher day for all the teachers on July 24th.


I had meetings with the “Drug Free” team yesterday and all is ready for the meeting tonight.


I had meetings with two university professors yesterday – one about trees and the other about butterflies. The latter is jubilant at some rare species being found at Green Pastures. How amazing the results are from God’s creation if you just care for it and leave it alone! The tree expert and I discussed aspects of further research to be done. 

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In the World Cup yesterday my prediction of England’s win was right but of Switzerland’s win was wrong. So I ended up with 75% correct predictions in the second round. I got 6 right out of 8.


The England match yesterday was absolutely disgusting owing to the cynical behaviour of the Columbian team who very nearly got away with it. As I see it the person who was more guilty of the whole fiasco was the referee who allowed himself to be intimidated by the Columbians. The referee was clearly not briefed as to what South American antics can be like and he got lost. Fortunately England survived but only just.


I predict in the quarter finals that France, Brazil, Croatia and England will win.

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My World Cup predictions for today were both correct, taking my percentage of correct predictions up to 83%. I predict for this Tuesday wins for Switzerland and England. 

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The weekend was a blessing with Saturday seeing the youth from Patos join the Christians in Action group at the Ipueira church plant and the service went wonderfully well. PTL!


The weekend was also a retreat weekend for all the people of the Green Pastures area and that was really blessed too. The scientists were out in the nature reserve part at the same time as one thing doesn’t interfere with the other. The researchers are ecstatic with the discovery of new species of butterflies for the caatinga region.


In Patos Sunday went beautifully and the communion service was a real blessing.


In the World Cup my prediction success rate has dropped to 75% correct with Russia knocking out Spain – but I was right (even down to my wobble) about Croatia winning.


My predictions for today are that Brazil and Belgium will win. Brazil will stop today till after the match. Banks etc. will only open after the final whistle!

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So far my predictions for the second round matches of the World Cup got full marks. As predicted this morning France sent Argentina home and Uruguay did the same to Portugal. 


For tomorrow I predict Spain will beat Russia (Putin will cry and receive a consolation phone call from Trump) and Croatia will beat Denmark (although I feel slightly wobbly on this one – but I will stick to the Croats).


Green Pastures had a police helicopter flying over it three times at 4 am today with big strong light beams looking for the bandits who attacked the armoured bank vehicles yesterday at nearby Ipueira. We have no news of them being captured.


Tonight a youth team from Patos is going to help in the service at Ipueira. Please pray for the people there as they get over the shock of such a shoot out in their little town/village and for God to be with the team there tonight.

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My forecast for this Saturday’s World Cup 2nd round matches are that France will knock out Argentina (don’t cry for me Argentina) and that Uruguay will knock out Portugal (on your bike Ronaldo!).


Don’t forget that I won the international QPR result forecasters competition a couple of years ago! Not to be sneezed at!


I had my hernia surgery one year ago today so I sent my surgeon a WhatsApp message of thanks telling him that Jesus healed 10 lepers but only one returned to say thank you. I said: “I am the thankful leper today”! He was really touched. 


I posted criticism on Facebook of the situation of the poor kids separated from their parents on the US border and have been called everything under the sun, including being labelled a communist, by some. Others agree with my view. Sadly evangelicals are too easy to manipulate. As long as you say you are against abortion and gays you can do what you like! Then they always quote Romans 13:1 in defence as the military regime used to in Brazil in the 70s. May the Lord help us to read the other verses in the Bible too!

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Ipueira is a small town in Rio Grande do Norte State where EAB has been working on a church plant for a number of years now. This morning at 10:30 am a gang of 20 highly armed thieves tried to rob two armoured money carrying vehicles but the only three policemen in town managed to keep them at bay until reinforcements arrived. The gang fled into the rural area which is not that far from Green Pastures so we are being verfy careful as they haven’t been caught yet. Please pray.


On Wednesday when returning from Green Pastures I saw an awful accident in which a man was killed. He pulled out of a side road and didn’t notice a big lorry coming his way. The lorry chopped his truck in half with the impact.


I had a good meeting with the deaf pastor Luis Carlos today working on details for another deaf conference on August 18th.


I wrote and dispatched the latest EAB Nutshell Update yesterday so if you didn’t receive a copy and would like one then please do let me know.


I had a good meeting with our communications man Ray Santana this week who will help me prepare videos clips of short duration – say 2 or 3 minutes each – to use on our UK trip visiting churches. Hence instead of PowerPoint slide presentations like on previous trips we hope to use video material interspersed with Liz and I speaking.


So England and Brazil are into the second round of the football World Cup. Now we shall see what happens. England will not find Colombia a push over but I predict  a tight win for England 2 x 1. Brazil should beat Mexico with more ease – let’s say 3 x 0. Actually things have worked out great for me personally with England being second in their group as it means they can only meet Brazil if both get to the final!

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Well my forecast of 3 x 1 in yesterday’s blog for today’s game was slightly undercooked! 6 x 1 is a bit of a shock to the system but well done England!

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This is difficult to cope with! England beating Panama in the World Cup 5 x 0 at half time! How will this end up? Crumbs!

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We held our annual Harvest Festival Thanksgiving service tonight for which a good number turned up. We had some lovely praise and choreographies in traditional regional steps. It was all beautiful. I brought a reflexive message on how we are communicating the Gospel. At the end everyone ate traditional maize food snacks.


The deaf fellowship was at the Harvest Festival in force tonight! It was lovely to see so many there. I have a meeting with their leader Pastor Luis Carlos next Friday.


This morning the youth asked me to take them on a nature trail at Green Pastures so this I did with pleasure. 


Tomorrow I’m preaching again in Patos at night. I’ll watch England in the World Cup in the morning. I forecast a 3×1 win for England against Panama. 

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Sitonio, leader of the EAB/ACEV church at Mandacaru continues in hospital in Campina Grande but out of danger I am told. Praise God for his improved health. I just ask you to pray still for a proper diagnosis of what was wrong with him as I fear they will send him home to where he lives in the middle of nowhere without getting to the bottom of the problem.


Pastor Hamilton has now recovered from his severe Dengue fever. PTL! However we are under quite an attack at the moment and pastors Lindon Carlos and Wostenes are not at all well. 


The youth this week have had an intensive programme as they do every year in June. It’s been a great week. Last night was beautiful seeing and hearing them presenting in groups the results of their Biblical studies on 4 topics: Corruption, Lies, Humility and the Environment. Tonight they are all sleeping at Green Pastures and I’ll take them on a nature trail in the morning. At night they’ll be back in Patos for a Saturday night special service.


I’m preaching tomorrow night and on Sunday night. 


Brazil plod on in the World Cup without being very inspired or inspiring. When the group stage ends we shall see who the 16 survivors are. It would seem both Brazil and England should get to at least the knock-out stage, but we will see. 


I went to my doctor this week for my general check-up with the results of blood tests enough to empty anyone’s arm! All is fine PTL! Liz continues in much better health and thanks everyone for their prayers.

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I am near to completing my sermon preparation for Sunday on this Wednesday morning and I am already itching to preach it! My preparation started on Monday and I am more and more enthused with the text of John 13:1-17. I have preached on this passage before of course, but this time it’s different! Preachers and pastors: if you never see anything new in a text or Bible passage over the years there’s something wrong with you! You’re stagnant!


I have seen the WASHING of the disciple’s feet in a new way this time round. It is humility I know, but it is also washing! Washing which Peter is told he will only understand later. Why later? After what? Leon Morris is great on John’s Gospel. 


Thank you Jesus for your washing! Can’t wait for Sunday!

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I started preparing my sermon for next Sunday yesterday and continue today. I like to do this early in the week when that’s possible. There’s a lot of prayer and preparation that has to be done alone in my office behind the scenes. My sermon will be on John 13:1-17 which when digging into is quite a passage.


I also received the gift of a forest fire beater from the Fire Brigade yesterday for Green Pastures. I enquired with them about how we could be best prepared for the worst (which we hope  and pray will never occur) and they gave me a new “beater” which they themselves use. Marian Rashleigh tells me that these “beaters” (not sure if this is what you call them in English) used to be placed all over the New Forest. The Fire Brigade chief was most impressed that I was thinking ahead like this and very happy that I am organizing a local team to be ready for an eventual fire outbreak as the Fire Brigade is so stretched to cope with a large area. I will now need to get more of these beaters but have the model to go on. The Fire Brigade has offered to give our team some training too.


This afternoon the Environmental Police will be going to Green Pastures with a coach load of school kids to visit our Nature Reserve. I will show them round a bit and talk to them about caring for God’s creation. Then the police will set free some birds which they have recovered from people illegally keeping wild birds in captivity which is a common practice here.

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Sunday went well with good blessed services. Thanks for praying. Unfortunately tonight’s service was not transmitted on Facebook owing to a technical problema beyond our control. I preached on ‘Christianity and Culture’ as the month of June is a strong cultural month in north-east Brazil so my message was laying out a Christian position and perspective.


Last week was the annual united evangelical churches get together/public concerts/social/spiritual get together. It went well though is perhaps not ideal, but at least the Christians come together and publicly declare their faith in Jesus Christ. 

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EAB is 80 this year! In Brazil we have been revamping since we reached 50 and now we need youth on board in the UK to revamp as well.


EAB now heads for a ton and the UK base needs to keep in step because it’s necessary and vital. Our Board of Trustees and overall support base must develop and spread downwards to teenagers and youth. This is not despising the young at heart but is being realistic.


In Brazil 82% of the Christians in our 83 churches are under 50. How do you think this compares with EAB’s support base overseas which is of vital importance to the work?


EAB needs to continue its work to get its century because the need is here and the need is great! Why has a big Christian organization like Tearfund decided to focus its entire work in Brazil in the north-east and north? Because this is where the main needs are! It is the area where genuine evangelical Christian churches are less and weakest. It is the area where many thousands of villages are still without any evangelical Christian place of worship throughout our enormous area. It is the area where the gap between rich and poor is most accentuated. In Brazil’s north-east the poor are extremely poor!


This is why EAB must get set for a ton with the experienced continuing on board in Brazil and the UK and with youth getting more on board and sharing the load with enthusiasm, meaning and dedication.


I just felt I should write this. EAB needs youth to get turned on to mission in north-east Brazil because it’s badly needed. I’d love to see a youth group come out here in 2019. I’d love you to email me with your thoughts. I’d love to chat to interested folk when in the UK in the autumn. 


May Brazil’s north-east hear the voice of God and see the love of God over the next 20 years through a vibrant EAB for His glory and for the benefit of all who need the Lord!


I call on all who love God’s work to pray about this in the name of Jesus!

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The murder statistics for Brazil in 2016 have just been published with the horrific growth to 62,517. This is equivalent to 30.3 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, and the worst regions are the north-east and north of Brazil. 


This compares with 17,250 in the USA and 571 in England and Wales in similar periods.

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I preached last night in the Communion service in Patos on Matthew 21:1-11. It went well as did the whole service. 


This morning I took a group of school children round the Green Pastures trails to encourage environmental awareness. The school came all the way from Piancó which is 60 miles west of Green Pastures!

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The latest EAB Nutshell Update has been sent to all who we can send it too as we are limited (by a new EU law) awaiting the necessary permission to send it from some. If you want it you are going to have to kindly tell us so or else we can’t send it! Please contact us at eabrazil@gmail.com

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EAB In Touch magazine edition 89 is on its way by post to all on the mailing list. Thanks to Marian Rashleigh and Dave Flowers for all their hard work on this. Here’s the link to the magazine in pdf: http://eabrazil.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/eabintouch89.pdf

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There are 2 types of EAB Updates. The first, which most people receive, is a brief monthly resumé of EAB’s work with photos which we call the EAB Nutshell Update. Get it? Brazil – where all the nuts come from! We put the news in a nutshell! The second usually doesn’t have photos and is a transcript of this blog. This now is also monthly and we call it the EAB Diary Update.

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I have nearly gone crazy (no rude comments please!) sending out emails one by one to all on our mailing list. I sent each one individually and noted down the names so that I can tick those who reply positively. It took me one and a half days! I am glad it is done. People are replying. I will wait a few days and then write a new EAB Nutshell Update which I will send to all who reply as I cannot send to those who don’t reply.


I will also need help getting permission from the remnant of snailmail update folk who receive a monthly postal update. These are folk advanced in years and the list steadily is shrinking as some do join the internet brigade and others join the celestial brigade! Some of these faithful prayer warriors and supporters are approaching three figures in age!


I’d love to organize a small group of young folk to visit the work here next year to see if we could start an EAB teens and twenties group to shake UK interest up a bit. Contact me if you are interested at eabrazil@gmail.com 

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The tankers strike goes on and on and on – but of course it is not a tankers strike at all anymore but is a manipulated attempt to bring about a Coup D’état. We are now encircled by lawless gangs in Patos that block the roads and cut off the population from food supplies etc. The BBC is waking up more to the matter and is a bit more energetic in today’s report talking about the death of 70 million chickens, for example, which died of hunger as their feed was not allowed to them! The country has gone mad! The situation is very dangerous. Please pray. 


See http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44285238

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The country is in uproar! The government gives in to the strikers in everything but the strike doesn’t end! Supplies of everything you can imagine are running out including food, medication etc. Travel is virtually impossible as you can’t get petrol. The strike is now in its second week. Please pray. 


See what the BBC says today which is a very timid report but better than nothing. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44275782


For me a Coup D’état is clearly the aim of mainy involved in this uprising. Please pray!

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After church last night I heard President Temer announce on TV that he had agreed to all the demands of the petrol tanker drivers who have been on strike for a week and paralysed the country. Even funerals were being stopped! Absolute chaos and anarchy. Now it remains to be seen if in practice the strike is over as announced.

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You can read edition 89 of EAB’s magazine “In Touch” on our website at http://eabrazil.org/2018/05/26/intouch-89/

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