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Please pray for:
1. EAB/ACEV’s Youth Conference which starts today and ends on Monday. It is being held at Green Pastures and being led by Philip Medcraft.
2. EAB/ACEV’s Patos church services will be led by Sacha Medcraft this Sunday and Pastor João George from our Imaculada church will be the preacher.
3. John & Liz Medcraft will be ministering at the Millbrook Christian Centre in Southampton at 10am (Postal Code: SO16 4QF) and at the West Wellow Gospel Hall at 6.30pm.
I have already dispatched the latest EAB Diary Update this morning.
I am very pleased that Philip has been able to arrange a real bonus for the Patos church whilst we’re away and a week this Sunday (18th) he’s been able to agree a visit with a lovely Christian singer and speaker Carlinhos Felix. It’s a real scoop for Philip, bless his heart. The thing is that in Brazil’s evangelical mayhem (not revival as so many who don’t understand the scene call it) evangelical music is such a disgusting money making racket so you have to know who is who and carefully chose genuine Christians! Carlinhos Felix is one of these rare specimens! Please pray for this visit and for the Youth Conference at Green Pastures this weekend prior to it.
I completed the writing of the annual report and sent it to the EAB Board today in preparation for the AGM on the 17th. It’s another good job done, but quite a large task.
I have also dealt with a backlog of emails today, discussed some issues with Philip and sorted some ActionChild matters with Sacha.
Here’s the leadership team for the EAB Youth Conference to be held at Green Pastures this weekend including Brazil’s bank holiday on the Monday. Please pray for Philip, his wife Gylmara and all the other members of the team that God will mightily bless this event. We trust God for great things!
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EAB’s 77th Annual Celebration will not only have a fellowship tea and fun auction at 5.30pm prior to the service at 7pm – but will also hold a table top sale of items (not including clothes) in aid of EAB. Everyone is invited to bring items along to help with this initiative. The Celebration will be on Saturday, October 17th at the Lighthouse Community Church at Hardley Green near Southampton, SO45 3NZ. Please be there!
Today we spoke at the Verwood coffee morning which was really lovely.
EAB’s 77th Annual Celebration will be held at the Lighthouse Community Church, Hardley Green, near Southampton, SO45 3NZ a week this Saturday (17th October) with a fellowship tea and auction at 5.30 pm and the service at 7pm at which Liz and I will be speaking and making a PowerPoint presentation unique for the event. Please be there and pray with us for a great time of blessing!
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We went to spend time with my dear Mum today and were overjoyed with how things have changed since last Wednesday when she was very seriously unwell. She has turned it around and was full of the joys of spring today, laughing, singing, and even quoting Scripture! We thank the Lord for his goodness in giving Mum some more time with us. PTL!
Tomorrow morning we’ll be speaking at Verwood and on Sunday we’ll be at Millbrook in the morning and at West Wellow at night. We value your prayers for all our travels and ministry.
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After a wonderful weekend in Larbert, Falkirk, Scotland we got the train back south today and enjoyed a lovely relaxing journey. It was a really blessed weekend and below is a photo of the Larbert Churches Together Celebration we took part in last night.
Now this Wednesday morning we’ll be speaking at the Verwood Chapel at 10:30am and on Sunday we’ll be speaking at the Millbrook Christian Centre in Southampton in the morning and at the West Wellow Chapel at night.
Tomorrow we’ll be heading for Basingstoke to see my Mum who hasn’t been so well. She’ll be 91 next Monday!
News from Brazil is good and the Lord continues to bless the Patos church in our absence. PTL! Please continue to pray for Philip responsible for the leadership in our absence and for his leadership of the annual Youth Conference this coming weekend.
Liz and I spoke at a Couples meeting last night at Larbert Pentecostal Church and it went very well. Today we have had a lovely day too speaking at the church in the morning and at a united churches meeting tonight in Larbert.
We will be heading for bonnie Scotland this afternoon getting the train from Durham to Edinburgh and from their to Larbert, Falkirk where Pastor Michael Rollo will meet us. Tomorrow I will be going to watch a football match with him as Michael is Chaplain of the Stenhousemuir FC. In the evening Liz and I will be speaking at a Married Couples’ meeting. On Sunday morning we will be doing an evangelistic presentation which should be interesting. We will be doing a presentation about the work in Brazil, but with an evangelistic slant and focus. We return to England on Monday (DV).
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We made the most of the lovely weather here in NE England yesterday and went to different beaches/nature reserves. It’s great to see how folk here are working hard at recuperating the damage done by this area’s coal mining days and other industrialization side-effects. Great to see and photograph Seals in the River Tees which had completely disappeared.
As we were travelling around yesterday afternoon we received word from Jean that Mum was most unwell all of a sudden and this concerned us a lot. Thankfully she has got over it (whatever it was?) and has eaten and drunk again today so PTL!
Tonight we head for Sunderland to speak at the Hylton Castle Church and then tomorrow it’s back on the train to Scotland for a weekend of ministry. I am working on my accent and trying on my kilt!
Below are photos with my cousin Philip of his church and ‘Ark’ we spoke at on Tuesday.
We spoke at a great service tonight on board the Ark! This is the name given to a building owned by the Horden (Co. Durham) Victory Church to reach into the community in creative ways. It was a lovely and blessed service. PTL!
We have got in some good healthy exercise yesterday and today walking beaches, climbing cliffs and exploring the countryside.
Today we’ve had a very good day of ministry. We had a lovely service this morning at Great Lumley Evangelical Church (below) where we travelled from Horden with my cousin Philip and his wife Debbie. After the service we took part in a church fellowship lunch.
This evening we were in Bishop Auckland at the Wear Valley Christian Centre where the service was wonderful. PTL!
We travelled from Basingstoke to London on Thursday afternoon and yesterday we made the most of the nice weather to first of all go to Kew Botanical Gardens which was absolutely great. After spending hours there, and doing lots of walking, we headed for North Kensington/Notting Hill where I was brought up. We visited my first house (where I was brought up and lived in childhood and youth). Not much appeared to have changed.
From there we went on to see my first school and my first church – Peniel Chapel. Then to QPR’s stadium etc. It was all lovely.
Now we are all set to leave for the train station to go to Co. Durham for a week’s ministry prior to going on to Scotland the following weekend for ministry there too. Your prayers are valued.
My laptop is now up and running to full capacity. A man at Fleet kindly worked over the weekend to get it working again and replaced the hard disk successfully copying all the data from the old one. However when I received the computer back from him there were still a few lesser, but important, problems to fix which he couldn’t do because of him not speaking Portuguese etc. So yesterday I contacted my technician in Patos who corrected the rest of the problems by remote control from Patos. The mind boggles!
I dispached the EAB Diary Update yesterday. I have also posted news from the 15th anniversary of EAB/ACEV’s 2nd church in Campina Grande which is really flourishing by the grace of God. See photo below from the celebrations.
I have been clearing up the backlog of emails and we are now about to go to the Lavender Farm near West Wellow to have a light lunch prior to going to speak at the Shirley Warren Baptist Church followed by a meal at Ken Rashleigh’s flat in Southampton. Tomorrow we head back to London prior to getting the train to Durham on Saturday for ministry in the north-east of England.
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We visited my Mum on Thursday. It wasn’t one of her best days – bless her heart. We also went round a few shops. I sent out the EAB Diary Update too.
I have kept up with quite a few issues in Brazil via facebook and email. Nothing stands still because we’re in the UK so there have been a number of matters to discuss. Sadly 3 dry well drillings were one of the things we talked about and all the pressure on the Exploited Women Project was discussed, which has forced us to move location once again owing to drug gangs interference. Please pray for our team on the job and never far from danger.
This Sunday we will be in Bristol for 2 services. The morning one will be at the Bristol Ivy Church (AOG) in Montpellier at 10:30 and the evening one will be at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Southmead at 18:30.
We will drive back from Bristol to London and sleep there prior to a 09:30 flight out to Zurich on the Monday morning. We will be spending the week high up in the Swiss Alps with Liz’s brother Sam and his wife Gerti.
We had a nice walk back in the lovely Windsor Park today (photo below) on the way back to Basingstoke from Harrow. Enormous trees that were there when I was a kid are still there. In the morning I’ll see my Mum again which will be nice.
The photo album section of the EAB website has now been updated so that completes the entire site. http://www.eabrazil.com/
Liz and I went for a very nice long walk today as part of Liz’s birthday celebrations – in the midst of which we had a lovely lunch in Harrow on the Hill. Tomorrow we head back to Basingstoke prior to a trip to two churches in Bristol on Sunday. The following day we fly to Switzerland for the week prior to returning for the following Sunday at Cadnam Methodist Church in the New Forest.
Sad news from Brazil is that the well-drilling work this week was unproductive. We drilled for wells in three communities and none of them hit water. You can perhaps imagine how down the communities are amidst such a severe drought as we are having this year. Please pray for them.
The weekend in the Patos church went fine. God is blessing Philip’s ministry for which we praise the Lord.
Liz is celebrating her birthday today and we are going up to Harrow on the Hill for lunch together with Liz’s sister Eunice. She already had a birthday cake at Thamesmead on Sunday! Happy Birthday Liz! Have a great and blessed day!
On Saturday Liz and I took a nice long walk at a Nature Reserve at Rickmansworth, not very far from the old London School of Theology. This was one photo I took there of a Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus).
Yesterday we headed early for the other side of the Thames, going through the Blackwall Tunnel, and arriving 45 minutes early for the lovely service at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in South Thamesmead, London, where we were warmly received by Pastors Vic and Lona Lambert and all the church. It was a great time together in church followed by a lovely Caribbean style lunch.
Late afternoon we took the Woolwich Ferry to get north of the Thames again and head for Enfield where we spent a beautiful evening with my niece Emily, her husband Jon and their gorgeous little boy Raphael. We got home fairly late but it had been a great day. PTL!
Today we spent a large part of the day in the Borough of Acton – first of all visiting our darling son’s grave at the cemetery who died as a little baby back in 1975 – our second child. From there we went next door to Gunnersbury Park where we had a very nice long walk.
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We arrived in my city of birth yesterday afternoon. It only took an hour travelling from Basingstoke to Harrow. I immediately took photographs in John & Eunice’s beautiful garden which is absolutely lovely! Here are 25 photos I took of the fantastic colour display available.
This Sunday we will be speaking at the Emmanuel Baptist Church – Yarnton Way, South Thamesmead, London DA18 4DR (Phone:+44 20 8311 3976) at 11am. Please be there if you can.
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We spent a pleasant evening with Ben and Mirian Price who work with EAB/ACEV in Brazil, but who are having a break in the UK for a year or so. We had a good old chat around a cup of tea. Their kids are growing up fast!
We’re off to London today and will be speaking at the Emmanuel Baptist Church at Thamesmead in Greater London on Sunday morning.
Continue ReadingThis morning started with a 5 minute interview on BBC Radio Solent at about 08:30 and it went off very well. Thanks to Marian Rashleigh for lining up this excellent opportunity. You just never know who will listen to such an opportunity to reach a wide audience as radio affords. Here is the interview https://soundcloud.com/user221710608/bbc-radio-solent-01092015-5-mins-interview
Following this we visited Mum who wasn’t so bright today and we also did a bit of shopping.
On Friday we picked up our rented vehicle for the 10 weeks here. Then on Saturday we went to Ipley for a lovely welcome cream tea at which there were 70 present.
Yesterday we were at the Lighthouse Community Church at Hardley and that went off lovely too. Today we have been to see my Mum again and she called me by my name for the first time which was rather nice!
Please be with us this Saturday for an EAB welcome cream tea at Ipley in the New Forest. Everyone is invited and welcome! It will be in the afternoon. Contact for further details dyers.ipley@gmail.com
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The flights over to the UK from Brazil were fine. The longer one from Brazil to Portugal was as smooth as sailing on a pond. The latter was rougher with a routine boring delay at Heathrow going round in circles in heavy bumpy clouds waiting for a landing slot. Anyway we finally made it and were met by Liz’s sister Eunice and her husband Jon + Neil and Naomi Parsons who took us to Basingstoke via a mammoth traffic jam.
At Basingstoke we were received by my sister Jean + my nephew David plus Marian Rashleigh. We had a lovely time of fellowship talking about the work in Brazil and eating!
Today we went to visit my 90 year old Mum which was a lovely and emotional moment. PTL all went well. Mum was all nicely dressed and with her nails and hair done for the occasion. Liz took the photo.
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We leave Patos in four and half hours time. Now getting all the last minute bits and pieces together prior to having lunch and heading for the airport. Somebody will be taking us there.
Last night I got to bed at 12.40am and Liz about 2am. So much to do.
I managed to finish the evangelistic presentation for Larbert, Scotland yesterday so this means the main presentation is ready + the AGM presentation and now this evangelistic one. I just need to work on the break down for one church which wants 10 minutes + 15 minutes + 15 minutes presentations – so a matter of just figuring out how best to divide what we already have and then make the divisions.
The final parts of the EAB website have been brought up to date (Projects + How can I help?) so this means amidst everything else I’ve managed to update the entire EAB website which had been long over due. http://www.eabrazil.com/
Praise the Lord we are now looking forward to the flights and seeing everyone in Europe.
Tomorrow we leave for Blighty and look forward to our first cup of tea in the UK in 4 years!
The service last night was lovely and the dedication of Amanda Ivy went off beautifully. It was nice to see Lynn’s husband Hutan’s family there. The sermon went well too. The church was packed out.
Now it’s more preparations for services in the UK. At the moment I’m about half way through Larbert’s Sunday morning evangelistic presentation. We leave Patos this Tuesday at 1pm (5pm UK time).
It’s been a stressful day sorting out church problems for hours. It’s a pity some things had to blow up right now, but such is the life of a pastor.
I feel relaxed now anyway and am looking forward very much to dedicating our 8th grandchild Amanda Ivy shortly as well as laying hands on Philip and his other co-leaders who will lead the church for the next 10 weeks in our absence. I also look forward to preaching the Gospel tonight too. I love preaching the Word!
Liz and I had an excellent meeting this afternoon with Tarcísio and his wife Maria who came in to discuss church matters at Green Pastures with us. It was a lovely positive meeting.
I can’t even get through the farewell service and problems with church people already have cropped up today! Oh Lord! People will wreck all else, it seems, to have power! And that is not spiritual power! Oh well… we press on. Emergency meeting with the involved tomorrow morning! I value your prayers, but sorry I can’t go into details.
Thursday night’s Bible Study was fine. Two young women shared from the Word in such an encouraging way. PTL! Then yesterday morning I checked over things at Green Pastures and left instructions for the weeks ahead. My son-in-law Hutan (Lynn’s husband) will be doing weekly checks for me whilst we’re away. There will be the Youth Conference there in October so we’ve already left all the cleaning materials ready for the team to clean up before and after.
Today I’ve completed my sermon preparation for this Sunday and prepared for the dedication of our granddaughter Amanda Ivy which I will also be conducting tomorrow. We will also be especially laying hands on Philip as he takes on the great responsibility of leading the Patos headquarters church over the next 10 weeks and praying for the leadership team who will support him.
The meeting with the Public Prosecutor in Teixeira yesterday lasted 2 hours and was superb. Wow! Things seem to be moving! The State Governor has mentioned me twice on State-wide radio this week on the issue of Jabre Peak. What a battle! The earth is the Lord’s!
I sent out the EAB Nutshell Update today so that is good and the Bible study went great tonight. Final meeting in Patos on Sunday and then we’re off to Blighty. Marian kindly sorted our train tickets today which were worked out by Roy – so that is good. I have bought a joint railcard for Liz and I online tonight! Feeling quite British! I need to prepare my sermon for Sunday and will dedicate Amanda Ivy too at the service.
I’m going for my last visit to Green Pastures in the morning prior to the trip. So much still to do with more presentations to prepare etc.
A beautiful 30 second film of a Wild Cat at Green Pastures was captured today. Absolutely beautiful! https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmedcraft/20069230204/
I have just finished the AGM presentation so that is a relief. I am getting there. Thank you for your prayers. I sure need them.
Two of our grandchildren, Louisa and Arthur, gave short messages to the Teens Prayer Meeting tonight. PTL! Wonderful!
We are scheduled to leave Patos a week today at 5pm (UK time) – travelling to Lisbon overnight and then on to London Heathrow, with scheduled arrival time of 12.45 pm (Terminal 2). EAB Board member Dave Shearing has kindly said he will meet us and take us to Basingstoke.
Our Europe itinerary schedule has been again added to and now is as follows:
Aug. 29: Ipley – New Forest – Welcome Cream Tea – everyone welcome! pm (contact: dyers.ipley@gmail.com)
Aug. 30: Hardley Lighthouse Community Church am
Sep. 06: Thamesmead Baptist am
Sep. 08: Liz’s birthday!
Sep. 12: Ledbury (personal visit to Mrs. Yoakley age 96 – ex Peniel Chapel member)
Sep. 13: Bristol Ivy Church am / Bristol PHC pm
Sep. 14 – 19: Switzerland
Sep. 20: Cadnam Methodist
Sep. 23: Shirley Warren Baptist
Sep. 26: Train London > Durham
Sep. 27: Great Lumley am / Bishop Auckland pm
Sep. 29: Horden
Oct. 01: Hylton Castle
Oct. 02: Train Durham > Larbert
Oct. 3-4: Larbert AOG
Oct. 5: Train Larbert > London
Oct. 11: Millbrook CC am / West Wellow Chapel pm
Oct. 12: My Mum’s 91st birthday!
Oct. 14: Dibden Purlieu Methodist pm
Oct. 17: EAB AGM pm
Oct. 18: Verwood Chapel am
Oct. 19-23: Rutland Water region
Oct. 25: Danbury Mission am + pm. Oct. 28: Basingstoke Christ Church Anglican
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Nov. 01: Cefn Cribwr am / Bristol Lawrence Weston Community Church pm
Nov. 03: Return to Brazil
Church in Patos on Sunday went very well. PTL! I am now working on the EAB AGM presentation which of course has to be totally different from the general one. I have to go and see the Public Prosecutor in Teixeira tomorrow leaving home about 6.30 am. It’s the last thing I needed with all I’ve got on but I have no choice as he has taken on board our fight to save Jabre Peak Nature Reserve and is about to set in motion legal action to force the State Government to do what we are rightly fighting for! May the Lord help us!
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There can’t be many preachers that can say that they preached in Glory and returned! However this was my experience yesterday as I travelled up the mountains to open the new little EAB/ACEV church at Glória (Glory) Community in the rural area of Imaculada County. 3rd year (of 4) Bible College student Ricardo went with me from the Patos church together with his wife and social worker Marah Danielle.
The service was held outside the church in the shade from the sun afforded by the new building. I preached and it went well. The local ladies sang a few songs and the P&W group from the Imaculada main church led the general praise. At the end of the thanksgiving service we untied the ribbon and all went in rejoicing to the little church where I conducted a dedicatory pray. It was a lovely event. It was just very tiring for me with all I have on, but it had to be done.
Continue ReadingI will be leaving shortly to preach at the Opening of the new little Glória (Glory) Community church in Imaculada County. I should never have accepted this engagement with all I have on, but it’s too late now. It’s a fair old drive up the mountains being the far side of Imaculada. At least I’ll be able to say that I preached in Glory!
I have just finished preparing the basic general presentation with PowperPoint for the UK. That is a relief! This is a full general overlook of the work here especially focusing on the past 4 years since we were in the UK last in 2011. However now I need to start on the AGM presentation (any suggestions?) now which has to be different. For Scotland I need to work on an evangelistic version of my presentation as well as prepare a talk for couples. Also for Danbury I need to split the presentation into 3 sections of 10 + 15 + 15 minutes which shouldn’t be too difficult to do. Your prayers are valued for all this. There’s a lot of preparation work needed for a tour of the UK churches!
I have asked Pastor Oseias to come in tomorrow to preach in Patos for me so that I could get on with all I have to do. I will lead the service. Philip took the Bible study for me on Thursday so that I could get on with things.
To say I am rushed off my feet would be the understatement of the century. Here is the tour schedule with some small alterations:
Aug. 29: Ipley – New Forest – Welcome Cream Tea – everyone welcome! pm (contact: dyers.ipley@gmail.com)
Aug. 30: Hardley Lighthouse Community Church am
Sep. 06: Thamesmead Baptist am
Sep. 08: Liz’s birthday!
Sep. 12: Ledbury (personal visit to Mrs. Yoakley age 96 – ex Peniel Chapel member)
Sep. 13: Bristol Ivy Church am / Bristol PHC pm
Sep. 14 – 19: Switzerland
Sep. 20: Cadnam Methodist
Sep. 23: Shirley Warren Baptist
Sep. 26: Train London > Durham
Sep. 27: Great Lumley am / Bishop Auckland pm
Sep. 29: Horden
Oct. 01: Hylton Castle
Oct. 02: Train Durham > Larbert
Oct. 3-4: Larbert AOG
Oct. 5: Train Larbert > London
Oct. 11: Millbrook CC am / West Wellow Chapel pm
Oct. 12: My Mum’s 91st birthday!
Oct. 14: Dibden Purlieu Methodist pm
Oct. 17: EAB AGM pm
Oct. 18: Verwood Chapel am
Oct. 19-23: Rutland Water region
Oct. 25: Danbury Mission am + pm
Nov. 01: Cefn Cribwr am / Bristol Lawrence Weston Community Church pm
Nov. 03: Return to Brazil
I had a good and longish meeting this morning with the vice-principal of the Patos Bible College. Pastor Lucena is from the Congregation Church and we’ve always got on so well together over the years. We discussed a few problems and it was good to feel in general that the College is going well.
I have also done some work on project coordinators issues and have sent out a consultation email to the leadership team.
I am trying to prepare my presentations for UK churches! At this rate I’ll be doing this on the plane!
The EAB site has been updated on the opening page, Action Child page and the Personnel and Contacts sections have also been brought up to date. http://www.eabrazil.com/
We arrive in the UK two weeks today (DV) – 26/08. Our first engagements will be a Cream Tea Welcome in the New Forest at Ipley on Saturday 29th in the afternoon and a service on the Sunday morning (30th) at Hardley Lighthouse Community Church. Both events are open to one and all and we hope to see you there!
Continue ReadingThe main TV network (Globo) State-wide re-presented the report on our Jabre Peak Campaign to save the environment there in their midday edition – so that’s twice in one day. It was basically the same thing, slightly altered, and at least they spelt my name right this time. The petition has received quite a lot more signatures today as a result of the TV exposure. You can see the second edition of the report if you like at http://g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/jpb-1edicao/videos/t/edicoes/v/campanha-quer-preservacao-do-pico-do-jabre-na-paraiba/4385126/
The EAB Information Leaflet was finalized today by the graphics person so now it’s at the printers and promised for Friday. PTL! Following this I have started on the PowerPoint material for Europe. The EAB website is being updated too.
You might like to watch the 4 minute report on our environmental campaign to save Jabre Peak here in Paraíba State. I speak a bit in the report towards the end. Since this report was broadcast this morning I am being bombarded by politicians wanting to “help”! The report is in Portuguese of course, but you should get the feel and gist by watching http://g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/bom-dia-pb/videos/t/edicoes/v/pico-do-jabre-e-alvo-de-vandalismo-no-sertao-da-paraiba/4384217/
Continue ReadingGreat service last night. Dedicated another baby and my last 2 Sundays prior to our Eurotrip each have further baby dedications lined up.
Sent out EAB Diary Update this morning and then worked on a big updating of the EAB website well over due. I’ve sent everything to the technical man/webmaster so now await his implementation.
I finished our leaflet for distribution to one and all in Europe in the churches etc. and that has all gone to the graphics man to put it together. That is, the outer pages are all ready – now I have sent the inner pages of the 4 page leaflet. Hence we will be taking with us 2,000 leaflets and 150 calendars. The calendars are already printed and with me in the office.
I did yet another radio interview this morning in the midst of everything else. Help!
I have had to check and change my personal email address with different sites and organizations as my medcraft@uol.com.br will cease to exist as from August 28th so I am trying to remember everyone I need to tell or else they will have no way of contacting me. At the moment the old address is still forwarding to my new personal address john.medcraft@gmail.com but not sending any more.
The EAB Brazil office address still remains eabrazil@gmail.com – so either address comes to me whether here or whilst in Europe.
Jon and Eunice have kindly kitted us out with mobile phones, like last time, for whilst we are in the UK. So Liz’s number will be 07470 171954 and mine will be 07470 157698. Many thanks for this.
My start this season in the QPR Prediction League got off to a bad start on Saturday with zero points! I predicted a 3 x 3 draw and we lost 2 x 0. Oh well… at least there are more matches left to be played in the Championship!
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Friday I nipped out to Green Pastures quickly to sort a few things and then got back to working on materials for presentation in Europe as from later this month. We have produced a 2016 EAB calendar to give to churches and that is printed and ready. It is simple and low cost – but I trust it will be a nice reminder of us during 2016 at least! I am now producing a new presentation pamphlet along the lines of the 2011 model to leave with people everywhere we go. The 2011 model was most useful and went down well and EAB’s UK Office is just running out of the final copies now – so good timing. This 2015 version is of course right up to date and will contain the main ponts we will be presenting with PowerPoint around the churches. I hope to finish the production of this pamphlet tomorrow, or the latest Tuesday, so that I can get it printed here and take it ready with us. Then I need to put my PowerPoint presentations together… so you can see how my time is streched to the limit.
Today is Brazilian Father’s Day and there was a fun and fellowship time last night for the Dads at the church. Tonight I will be preaching on “Love, Determined Effort and Spiritual Responsibility – essencial aspects in the life of a Christian Father’. This I completed preparing last night. I will also be dedicating a baby tonight.
Next Saturday I will be preaching at the opening of a new EAB/ACEV church in the County of Imaculada up in the mountains at Glória Community. Your prayers are very much appreciated with all we have on.
This blog has now passed the 140,000 visits mark. Many thanks. My photos have now reached the 197,000 viewings mark at https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmedcraft/
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