We had a great day of services on Sunday around the theme of Earth Day, which of course was this Sunday. After all “The earth is the Lord’s and everything that’s in it”! The festive spirit was enhanced by the news that Green Pastures has been saved from the electricity pylons and we started with a great dance. The children presented a little play, we had an appropriate poem and I preached on Genesis 1:28 and Revelation 21:1-4. It is sad that God’s first mandate (Genesis 1:28) given to man is so forgotten these days with all its long term implications.


Liz’s health remains unchanged and she returns to see specialists in João Pessoa again tomorrow. Please keep praying especially for dear Liz. 

We had a great day of services on Sunday around the theme of Earth Day, which of course was this Sunday. After all “The earth is the Lord’s and everything that’s in it”! The festive spirit was enhanced by the news that Green Pastures has been saved from the electricity pylons and we started with a great dance. The children presented a little play, we had an appropriate poem and I preached on Genesis 1:28 and Revelation 21:1-4. It is sad that God’s first mandate (Genesis 1:28) given to man is so forgotten these days with all its long term implications.


Liz’s health remains unchanged and she returns to see specialists in João Pessoa again tomorrow. Please keep praying especially for dear Liz. 

We had a great day of services on Sunday around the theme of Earth Day, which of course was this Sunday. After all “The earth is the Lord’s and everything that’s in it”! The festive spirit was enhanced by the news that Green Pastures has been saved from the electricity pylons and we started with a great dance. The children presented a little play, we had an appropriate poem and I preached on Genesis 1:28 and Revelation 21:1-4. It is sad that God’s first mandate (Genesis 1:28) given to man is so forgotten these days with all its long term implications.


Liz’s health remains unchanged and she returns to see specialists in João Pessoa again tomorrow. Please keep praying especially for dear Liz. 

I am on my way now to the State capital João Pessoa to preach today and tomorrow. Back to preach in Patos for Sunday. Pastor Lindon Carlos and his wife going with me.

I am on my way now to the State capital João Pessoa to preach today and tomorrow. Back to preach in Patos for Sunday. Pastor Lindon Carlos and his wife going with me.

Liz got back to Patos from João Pessoa this afternoon where she did umpteen tests and scans regarding her ill health. She has to return next week for more tests. Her health remains unchanged and we continue to value your prayers.


Lots of the children from our Pastor Frank Dyer School in Patos received dental care this week and the families really appreciate this care is given on top of school and food.


The rain has stopped here.

Liz got back to Patos from João Pessoa this afternoon where she did umpteen tests and scans regarding her ill health. She has to return next week for more tests. Her health remains unchanged and we continue to value your prayers.


Lots of the children from our Pastor Frank Dyer School in Patos received dental care this week and the families really appreciate this care is given on top of school and food.


The rain has stopped here.

We have been fighting a plan to run high tension cables and pylons through the middle of Green Pastures and thus ruining the place. We had made appeals for help from environmental agencies and the university professors united in speaking out on our behalf as did the press. Much prayer has been made too. So praise God we received an email from the electricity company telling us they had decided to attend our appeal to do a detour so as to miss Green Pastures as I had requested. We are rejoicing about this victory and thank all those who prayed with us on this matter.

We have been fighting a plan to run high tension cables and pylons through the middle of Green Pastures and thus ruining the place. We had made appeals for help from environmental agencies and the university professors united in speaking out on our behalf as did the press. Much prayer has been made too. So praise God we received an email from the electricity company telling us they had decided to attend our appeal to do a detour so as to miss Green Pastures as I had requested. We are rejoicing about this victory and thank all those who prayed with us on this matter.

Please note that EAB’s new website address is http://www.eabrazil.org

Please note that EAB’s new website address is http://www.eabrazil.org

Liz is spending the week in João Pessoa, where there are more advanced medical facilities, having a whole battery of tests and scans done, to try to discover the root cause of her ill health which has now dragged on for seven and a half months. We value your continued prayers.


Sunday was a blessing in church in Patos. PTL! I will be preaching in João Pessoa on Friday and Saturday and in Patos on Sunday. Hence lots of preparation has been done. 3 down and one to go!


The Patos Band was fantastically blessed at Tavares on Saturday. The anniversary service there was great.


EAB’s 2nd church in Campina Grande had a wonderful full outreach day on Saturday in the area of the city where they are busy planting a new church. It is great to see a church so mobilized for God and the community!

Liz is spending the week in João Pessoa, where there are more advanced medical facilities, having a whole battery of tests and scans done, to try to discover the root cause of her ill health which has now dragged on for seven and a half months. We value your continued prayers.


Sunday was a blessing in church in Patos. PTL! I will be preaching in João Pessoa on Friday and Saturday and in Patos on Sunday. Hence lots of preparation has been done. 3 down and one to go!


The Patos Band was fantastically blessed at Tavares on Saturday. The anniversary service there was great.


EAB’s 2nd church in Campina Grande had a wonderful full outreach day on Saturday in the area of the city where they are busy planting a new church. It is great to see a church so mobilized for God and the community!

Liz is spending the week in João Pessoa, where there are more advanced medical facilities, having a whole battery of tests and scans done, to try to discover the root cause of her ill health which has now dragged on for seven and a half months. We value your continued prayers.


Sunday was a blessing in church in Patos. PTL! I will be preaching in João Pessoa on Friday and Saturday and in Patos on Sunday. Hence lots of preparation has been done. 3 down and one to go!


The Patos Band was fantastically blessed at Tavares on Saturday. The anniversary service there was great.


EAB’s 2nd church in Campina Grande had a wonderful full outreach day on Saturday in the area of the city where they are busy planting a new church. It is great to see a church so mobilized for God and the community!

The Charity Concert held once again this year by Cadnam Methodist Church in aid of the work of EAB was a great success with a full church and great concert with wonderful musicians. Our thanks again to all those involved. We were especially pleased to hear that Brazilian music was part of the program!

Cadnam Methodist Church will be holding its annual charity concert for EAB this Saturday, 14th April, at 7 pm and tickets are £10. As well as the Concert you still get tea/coffee and cake! This must be the place to go this Saturday if you live in the Southampton/New Forest region. The church is behind the White Hart Pub (please don’t muddle things – the concert is in the church!) and the postal code is SO40 2NP.


We thank Hillary Babey for once again organizing this concert and for all who will take part and support it.

Cadnam Methodist Church will be holding its annual charity concert for EAB this Saturday, 14th April, at 7 pm and tickets are £10. As well as the Concert you still get tea/coffee and cake! This must be the place to go this Saturday if you live in the Southampton/New Forest region. The church is behind the White Hart Pub (please don’t muddle things – the concert is in the church!) and the postal code is SO40 2NP.


We thank Hillary Babey for once again organizing this concert and for all who will take part and support it.

EAB’s website has changed address to www.eabrazil.org

EAB’s website has changed address to www.eabrazil.org

We had 37 mm of rain today at Green Pastures but many other places in the area had more. This meant that my planned trip to the church plant at Belem had to be cancelled as it was impossible to reach the place for most people going, owing to the condition of the earth road. My 4-wheel drive jeep would have made it but it wouldn’t be too helpful preaching to empty seats! Rain stopped pray!

We had 37 mm of rain today at Green Pastures but many other places in the area had more. This meant that my planned trip to the church plant at Belem had to be cancelled as it was impossible to reach the place for most people going, owing to the condition of the earth road. My 4-wheel drive jeep would have made it but it wouldn’t be too helpful preaching to empty seats! Rain stopped pray!

We had 37 mm of rain today at Green Pastures but many other places in the area had more. This meant that my planned trip to the church plant at Belem had to be cancelled as it was impossible to reach the place for most people going, owing to the condition of the earth road. My 4-wheel drive jeep would have made it but it wouldn’t be too helpful preaching to empty seats! Rain stopped pray!

“The Cost of True Worship” was the title of my sermon on Sunday night based on John 12:1-11 where Lazarus’s sister Mary poured expensive ointment on Jesus’s feet in a beautiful act of humble personally involved worship which filled the house with the aroma. She didn’t pour ointment on His head but on His feet and she didn’t dry them with a towel but with her own hair. The message I believe was a blessing to many. In fact the whole service was blessed with a lovely spirit of praise and worship.


This week I have been preparing ministry for a seminar I will be preaching at in João Pessoa and further ministry at Belém Village in Tavares County on Friday. I will also be visiting a new church plant endeavour ar Jurema Village in that area.


The battle goes on to protect Green Pastures from invasion by a powerline. We have had a group of 50 adults visiting for a good 4 mile walk through the trails which is all part of our educational work and next week we will have a school visiting.

“The Cost of True Worship” was the title of my sermon on Sunday night based on John 12:1-11 where Lazarus’s sister Mary poured expensive ointment on Jesus’s feet in a beautiful act of humble personally involved worship which filled the house with the aroma. She didn’t pour ointment on His head but on His feet and she didn’t dry them with a towel but with her own hair. The message I believe was a blessing to many. In fact the whole service was blessed with a lovely spirit of praise and worship.


This week I have been preparing ministry for a seminar I will be preaching at in João Pessoa and further ministry at Belém Village in Tavares County on Friday. I will also be visiting a new church plant endeavour ar Jurema Village in that area.


The battle goes on to protect Green Pastures from invasion by a powerline. We have had a group of 50 adults visiting for a good 4 mile walk through the trails which is all part of our educational work and next week we will have a school visiting.

“The Cost of True Worship” was the title of my sermon on Sunday night based on John 12:1-11 where Lazarus’s sister Mary poured expensive ointment on Jesus’s feet in a beautiful act of humble personally involved worship which filled the house with the aroma. She didn’t pour ointment on His head but on His feet and she didn’t dry them with a towel but with her own hair. The message I believe was a blessing to many. In fact the whole service was blessed with a lovely spirit of praise and worship.


This week I have been preparing ministry for a seminar I will be preaching at in João Pessoa and further ministry at Belém Village in Tavares County on Friday. I will also be visiting a new church plant endeavour ar Jurema Village in that area.


The battle goes on to protect Green Pastures from invasion by a powerline. We have had a group of 50 adults visiting for a good 4 mile walk through the trails which is all part of our educational work and next week we will have a school visiting.

I spent my entire morning with the state-wide TV Paraíba team filming Green Pastures and interviewing me as a result of the widespread public interest and support for us defending the place from the invasion of a high tension power cable system. The report will be broadcast on Monday I am told.


We received just over an inch of rain last night for which we are grateful. Rains were poor in March and we hope they will be better this month. The general situation of the reservoirs in the region here remains critical.


Brazil is tense tonight with ex-president Lula refusing thus far to go to jail, despite a 12 year sentence, and surrounded by thousands of supporters in São Paulo. The whole situation is extremely delicate and explosive.

I spent my entire morning with the state-wide TV Paraíba team filming Green Pastures and interviewing me as a result of the widespread public interest and support for us defending the place from the invasion of a high tension power cable system. The report will be broadcast on Monday I am told.


We received just over an inch of rain last night for which we are grateful. Rains were poor in March and we hope they will be better this month. The general situation of the reservoirs in the region here remains critical.


Brazil is tense tonight with ex-president Lula refusing thus far to go to jail, despite a 12 year sentence, and surrounded by thousands of supporters in São Paulo. The whole situation is extremely delicate and explosive.

I feel profoundly sad with the news just in of the imprisonment of ex-President Lula planned for tomorrow. I do not think he is an angel or agree with all his policies, but much less do I think his opponents are angels or agree with their policies. I am not convinced he is guilty, yet he is getting 12 years in jail. I am not convinced about the independence of the judiciary nor do I like the implied threats and undertones of the military.


From tomorrow onwards anything can happen in this country. It is split between right and left and I can’t see this ending very peacefully. I think we are all in for a very rough ride. Ex-president Lula was on track to be re-elected president in October. Hence obviously his support base is very large. He was a very good president for the poor and for black people.


Please pray for safety, justice and peace in Brazil.

I feel profoundly sad with the news just in of the imprisonment of ex-President Lula planned for tomorrow. I do not think he is an angel or agree with all his policies, but much less do I think his opponents are angels or agree with their policies. I am not convinced he is guilty, yet he is getting 12 years in jail. I am not convinced about the independence of the judiciary nor do I like the implied threats and undertones of the military.


From tomorrow onwards anything can happen in this country. It is split between right and left and I can’t see this ending very peacefully. I think we are all in for a very rough ride. Ex-president Lula was on track to be re-elected president in October. Hence obviously his support base is very large. He was a very good president for the poor and for black people.


Please pray for safety, justice and peace in Brazil.

I have just completed my preparations of my sermon for this Sunday in Patos on John 12:1-11 and entitled “The Cost of True Worship” about the story of Lazarus’s sister Mary annointing Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume and drying his feet with her hair.


Liz’s health continues to be a concern. She is up and down with one day more pain and the next somewhat easier. The antibiotics have not had the desired effect as yet and on Monday Liz will face more drastic treatment for which we ask your prayers. We hope and pray that this new biological treament will have the desired major effect and improve her health big time.


The work presses forward and good news from the Travessia village is of further decisions for Christ there. PTL! This is an absolutely pioneer place where there was no previous Gospel witness. In the town of Manaíra 8 were baptized at Easter. A new work in the city of Recife seems to be developing which has been a long-time strategic goal of EAB/ACEV so as to move more heavily into that State of Pernambuco. The regular Patos church services broadcast weekly has had a direct input into this development. 


We still need much prayer in defense of Green Pastures against a planned invasion by high tension electricity pylons and cables. We have hopes that the Federal Environmental Agency will help us and we ask prayer for this.

I have just completed my preparations of my sermon for this Sunday in Patos on John 12:1-11 and entitled “The Cost of True Worship” about the story of Lazarus’s sister Mary annointing Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume and drying his feet with her hair.


Liz’s health continues to be a concern. She is up and down with one day more pain and the next somewhat easier. The antibiotics have not had the desired effect as yet and on Monday Liz will face more drastic treatment for which we ask your prayers. We hope and pray that this new biological treament will have the desired major effect and improve her health big time.


The work presses forward and good news from the Travessia village is of further decisions for Christ there. PTL! This is an absolutely pioneer place where there was no previous Gospel witness. In the town of Manaíra 8 were baptized at Easter. A new work in the city of Recife seems to be developing which has been a long-time strategic goal of EAB/ACEV so as to move more heavily into that State of Pernambuco. The regular Patos church services broadcast weekly has had a direct input into this development. 


We still need much prayer in defense of Green Pastures against a planned invasion by high tension electricity pylons and cables. We have hopes that the Federal Environmental Agency will help us and we ask prayer for this.

We had an excellent service in the Patos church last night following on from a brilliant street service on Saturday night outside the EAB School in the Jatobá borough of Patos. 150 people came to the service which is really something! It was an amazing blessing in a place we have been trying to plant a church for some time. Please pray.

We had an excellent service in the Patos church last night following on from a brilliant street service on Saturday night outside the EAB School in the Jatobá borough of Patos. 150 people came to the service which is really something! It was an amazing blessing in a place we have been trying to plant a church for some time. Please pray.

I am happy to say that yesterday we received the results of tests done on Liz last week which have finally discovered the bacteria which is the root cause of all Liz’s very serious health problems and which no previous tests had managed to discover. 


Last Tuesday Liz had 7 syringes of fluid removed from one knee and this fluid was sent to a laboratory for different tests including a culture. This culture both discovered the hidden bacteria as well as defining which antibiotics will be effective in killing the bacteria. We are all very happy about this of course and thank you for your prayers. The specialist caring for Liz is really thrilled too and says that this bacteria is what had stopped all previous medications working for Liz.


Thus Liz today has started on a mammoth 2 month course of antibiotics and we hope and pray she will start to improve in the near future and feel stronger and better. Please continue to pray.

I am happy to say that yesterday we received the results of tests done on Liz last week which have finally discovered the bacteria which is the root cause of all Liz’s very serious health problems and which no previous tests had managed to discover. 


Last Tuesday Liz had 7 syringes of fluid removed from one knee and this fluid was sent to a laboratory for different tests including a culture. This culture both discovered the hidden bacteria as well as defining which antibiotics will be effective in killing the bacteria. We are all very happy about this of course and thank you for your prayers. The specialist caring for Liz is really thrilled too and says that this bacteria is what had stopped all previous medications working for Liz.


Thus Liz today has started on a mammoth 2 month course of antibiotics and we hope and pray she will start to improve in the near future and feel stronger and better. Please continue to pray.

The whole of north-east Brazil had a long blackout (which I refuse to call a power outage!) yesterday afternoon and evening. It was yet another example of the chaos Brazil is in at the moment.


Amidst all this the brightspot was to observe dear Liz just a bit brighter! PTL! She has had 2 B12 injections and will have another tomorrow which is at least combatting some of the side-effects of her condition. She also had lots of liquid removed from one knee which was sent to a laboratory for tests and it is now confirmed that she will soon be starting on different ‘biological’ treatment which we hope and pray will zap her illness. Please continue praying.


Please also pray for the rains to restart here. March has been a hiccup and the rains have stopped which is most concerning as either we get plenty of rain in the first months of the year, up until May, or we have had it till 2019!


I am working on my sermon for Sunday. Yesterday we received feedback from the ladies of the Desert Flower Project (pseudonymn for Battered wives involved in drugs – never use these terms on Facebook please unless you want me killed) and there was a wonderful general buzz of approval. 16 went plus 9 kids. We feel it was a real breakthrough with the group. Some have expressed their desire to come again. One woman made a genuine comittment to Christ out of the group last Sunday and we checked this yesterday which she reaffirmed. PLEASE PRAY. She is on drugs and trying to get free, lives with a partner which complicated things, has a child and wants to live for Jesus! We are doing all we can to support her first steps with the Lord and hope she will be back in church this Sunday.


Results in from Manaira’s follow up work (2 months) after the special 10-day Outreach in January show 6 firm in the faith and 2 or 3 humming and harring and coming and going. We praise God and ask prayer for all.


I had an excellent meeting yesterday with Pastor Lindon Carlos about churches and projects issues. It really was a blessing.

The whole of north-east Brazil had a long blackout (which I refuse to call a power outage!) yesterday afternoon and evening. It was yet another example of the chaos Brazil is in at the moment.


Amidst all this the brightspot was to observe dear Liz just a bit brighter! PTL! She has had 2 B12 injections and will have another tomorrow which is at least combatting some of the side-effects of her condition. She also had lots of liquid removed from one knee which was sent to a laboratory for tests and it is now confirmed that she will soon be starting on different ‘biological’ treatment which we hope and pray will zap her illness. Please continue praying.


Please also pray for the rains to restart here. March has been a hiccup and the rains have stopped which is most concerning as either we get plenty of rain in the first months of the year, up until May, or we have had it till 2019!


I am working on my sermon for Sunday. Yesterday we received feedback from the ladies of the Desert Flower Project (pseudonymn for Battered wives involved in drugs – never use these terms on Facebook please unless you want me killed) and there was a wonderful general buzz of approval. 16 went plus 9 kids. We feel it was a real breakthrough with the group. Some have expressed their desire to come again. One woman made a genuine comittment to Christ out of the group last Sunday and we checked this yesterday which she reaffirmed. PLEASE PRAY. She is on drugs and trying to get free, lives with a partner which complicated things, has a child and wants to live for Jesus! We are doing all we can to support her first steps with the Lord and hope she will be back in church this Sunday.


Results in from Manaira’s follow up work (2 months) after the special 10-day Outreach in January show 6 firm in the faith and 2 or 3 humming and harring and coming and going. We praise God and ask prayer for all.


I had an excellent meeting yesterday with Pastor Lindon Carlos about churches and projects issues. It really was a blessing.

The whole of north-east Brazil had a long blackout (which I refuse to call a power outage!) yesterday afternoon and evening. It was yet another example of the chaos Brazil is in at the moment.


Amidst all this the brightspot was to observe dear Liz just a bit brighter! PTL! She has had 2 B12 injections and will have another tomorrow which is at least combatting some of the side-effects of her condition. She also had lots of liquid removed from one knee which was sent to a laboratory for tests and it is now confirmed that she will soon be starting on different ‘biological’ treatment which we hope and pray will zap her illness. Please continue praying.


Please also pray for the rains to restart here. March has been a hiccup and the rains have stopped which is most concerning as either we get plenty of rain in the first months of the year, up until May, or we have had it till 2019!


I am working on my sermon for Sunday. Yesterday we received feedback from the ladies of the Desert Flower Project (pseudonymn for Battered wives involved in drugs – never use these terms on Facebook please unless you want me killed) and there was a wonderful general buzz of approval. 16 went plus 9 kids. We feel it was a real breakthrough with the group. Some have expressed their desire to come again. One woman made a genuine comittment to Christ out of the group last Sunday and we checked this yesterday which she reaffirmed. PLEASE PRAY. She is on drugs and trying to get free, lives with a partner which complicated things, has a child and wants to live for Jesus! We are doing all we can to support her first steps with the Lord and hope she will be back in church this Sunday.


Results in from Manaira’s follow up work (2 months) after the special 10-day Outreach in January show 6 firm in the faith and 2 or 3 humming and harring and coming and going. We praise God and ask prayer for all.


I had an excellent meeting yesterday with Pastor Lindon Carlos about churches and projects issues. It really was a blessing.

When I drove into Green Pastures this morning in a large police van, followed by three more full of police armed to the teeth, Tarcisio nearly fainted! The special police visit had not been planned and Tarcísio thus was expecting nothing. What happened was that I had had a meeting with the new environment police chief and other police authorities in Patos – and everything went so well that they asked if they could go and visit the Reserve at Green Pastures there and then! I said sure, and we took off in convoy!


It was a fantastic opportunity to speak to these powerful men and discuss how we need to care more for God’s creation and combat hunters, poachers and tree choppers! “The earth is the Lord’s” is what I told the Police chief. I think he got the message!

Liz has become very unwell indeed and stands in need of much prayer. I have never seen her so ill before. She has a sudden and severe version of reactive arthritis, formerly known as Reiter’s syndrome. It has developed suddenly in her body as a response to an unknown infection, causing cross-reactivity. She is being looked after by two specialists but has thus far not responded to any medication. She is weakened, has much pain and has limited mobility. She will apparently need a long period of treatment over many months. Please pray.

Liz has become very unwell indeed and stands in need of much prayer. I have never seen her so ill before. She has a sudden and severe version of reactive arthritis, formerly known as Reiter’s syndrome. It has developed suddenly in her body as a response to an unknown infection, causing cross-reactivity. She is being looked after by two specialists but has thus far not responded to any medication. She is weakened, has much pain and has limited mobility. She will apparently need a long period of treatment over many months. Please pray.

I have just got home from a great Sunday night “Desert Flower Project” service which went so well. PTL! 16 of the 23 women at present in the project came with 6 smaller children plus an older daughter and her boyfriend! Even 4 of the devout spiritists came! 


The service had had lots of prayer put into it and it was electric. The praise was great and the sermon flowed in the Spirit. At the end 2 of the women made decisions plus a number of others who were visiting as well. Thank you Lord.


After the service we had the sale of their handicraft products and that went very well too. So thank you for your prayers and support. God is good!

I have just got home from a great Sunday night “Desert Flower Project” service which went so well. PTL! 16 of the 23 women at present in the project came with 6 smaller children plus an older daughter and her boyfriend! Even 4 of the devout spiritists came! 


The service had had lots of prayer put into it and it was electric. The praise was great and the sermon flowed in the Spirit. At the end 2 of the women made decisions plus a number of others who were visiting as well. Thank you Lord.


After the service we had the sale of their handicraft products and that went very well too. So thank you for your prayers and support. God is good!

Liz and I were travelling on Thursday and Friday as Liz needed to see a blood specialist as she is far from well. She has something which has recently and abruptly cropped up which is wrong with her immune system and we value your prayers very much.


Today is the big “Desert Flower Project” service at 6.30 pm our time and I have prepared my sermon and we are looking to God for a greatly blessed service. We count on your prayers. A big spiritual battle is going on around this and the spiritist women involved in the project are creating difficulties – but we believe God is greater than all the opposition and difficulties.