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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.

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.

People tend to seek us out when they have wildlife they want to return to the wild so that we can put it in the Green Pastures Nature Reserve which is becoming increasingly well known. We do all we can to make people understand that birds should be free to fly in the wild and wild animals should be left in the wild unharmed. Sometimes our message and example produces the desired effect and people either let free what they had in a cage of had captured and were planning to kill and eat.


Hence yesterday I received a 6-banded Armadillo which was saved from the knife. So this morning Liz said she would take it to Green Pastures to set it free there as she was going to check the toilets renovation work on-going there. I put the Armadillo in a large bucket in which it was brought to us and off she went. But after a few minutes Liz called me on her mobile asking for help as the Armadillo had got free in the Jeep! So I got a lift to where she was and put the Armadillo back in the bucket and went with Liz to let it free. In the end all was well, but it was rather funny when I got to Liz and saw the Armadillo sitting on the back seat!


I am now preparing my sermon for Sunday which will be a very important and special service for the Desert Flower women’s project.  I will be preaching on Isaiah 35.

People tend to seek us out when they have wildlife they want to return to the wild so that we can put it in the Green Pastures Nature Reserve which is becoming increasingly well known. We do all we can to make people understand that birds should be free to fly in the wild and wild animals should be left in the wild unharmed. Sometimes our message and example produces the desired effect and people either let free what they had in a cage of had captured and were planning to kill and eat.


Hence yesterday I received a 6-banded Armadillo which was saved from the knife. So this morning Liz said she would take it to Green Pastures to set it free there as she was going to check the toilets renovation work on-going there. I put the Armadillo in a large bucket in which it was brought to us and off she went. But after a few minutes Liz called me on her mobile asking for help as the Armadillo had got free in the Jeep! So I got a lift to where she was and put the Armadillo back in the bucket and went with Liz to let it free. In the end all was well, but it was rather funny when I got to Liz and saw the Armadillo sitting on the back seat!


I am now preparing my sermon for Sunday which will be a very important and special service for the Desert Flower women’s project.  I will be preaching on Isaiah 35.

Our EAB website is temporarily off line owing to a technical matter which we are trying to sort out as soon as possible.

Our EAB website is temporarily off line owing to a technical matter which we are trying to sort out as soon as possible.

Our EAB website is temporarily off line owing to a technical matter which we are trying to sort out as soon as possible.

The Sunday services went well with a full church as usual. PTL! Today I have done so much that I hardly know how to relate it all but there was lots of work linked to the Action Child Programme. I also have done a lot of work with the Drug Free Project. The team is really fired up after the weekend’s training sessions. 


Last night I miraculously managed to watch a film – Dunkirk. I really enjoyed it. I watched it thanks to my granddaughter Louisa who managed to download it some how or other in English for me and put it on a pendrive.


Please pray for the special service this coming Sunday with some of the women in church from the Desert Flower Project. They will be selling their handicraft after church and will have to come to the service to do so.

Sunday was blessed with a lovely communion service as always here on the first Sunday of the month. I preached on John 9/10 in my 33rd sermon in the John’s Gospel series. After the service I had quite a difficult incident with a deaf couple who wanted me to do a sort of façade wedding cerimony so that they can live together without actually being legally married! They want this because the man is on government benefit for his deafness which he fears losing if he gets married. I declined to get involved other than to help them check with a lawyer regarding if in fact he would lose his benefit. Both families were there to pressurise me! The things we get involved in!


On Monday we travelled to João Pessoa for Liz to see her eye specialist where she got top marks for her sight after the cataract surgery. On the Tuesday Liz had a check up with another doctor. We headed back to Patos yesterday morning.


On the way back Tarcísio phoned from Green Pastures to say the local authorities had illegally set fire to the rubbish dump not far from Green Pastures. I got Lynn’s husband Hutan to go and photograph and film it so as to be able to register a formal complaint with proof of what occured. 


When I got back to Patos I posted a film on Facebook and made a formal complaint. I have since received profuse apologies from the Mayor and Secretary for the Environment as they knew they were in trouble as what they did is totally illegal. They promised me never to do it again and promised to make efforts too for rubbish not to be allowed to come with the wind to Green Pastures. I decided to give the authorities one more chance or else I will take legal action.


Tonight is the Bible study and tomorrow and Saturday are training sessions for our anti-drugs teams. Please pray. It was lovely to see last night how a young married couple have got back together as a result of the “Drug-Free” project and the help the husband battling with getting free from drugs received.


It was also great to see out young pastor in Teixeira lead a neighbour to the church to the Lord yesterday. PTL!

Sunday was blessed with a lovely communion service as always here on the first Sunday of the month. I preached on John 9/10 in my 33rd sermon in the John’s Gospel series. After the service I had quite a difficult incident with a deaf couple who wanted me to do a sort of façade wedding cerimony so that they can live together without actually being legally married! They want this because the man is on government benefit for his deafness which he fears losing if he gets married. I declined to get involved other than to help them check with a lawyer regarding if in fact he would lose his benefit. Both families were there to pressurise me! The things we get involved in!


On Monday we travelled to João Pessoa for Liz to see her eye specialist where she got top marks for her sight after the cataract surgery. On the Tuesday Liz had a check up with another doctor. We headed back to Patos yesterday morning.


On the way back Tarcísio phoned from Green Pastures to say the local authorities had illegally set fire to the rubbish dump not far from Green Pastures. I got Lynn’s husband Hutan to go and photograph and film it so as to be able to register a formal complaint with proof of what occured. 


When I got back to Patos I posted a film on Facebook and made a formal complaint. I have since received profuse apologies from the Mayor and Secretary for the Environment as they knew they were in trouble as what they did is totally illegal. They promised me never to do it again and promised to make efforts too for rubbish not to be allowed to come with the wind to Green Pastures. I decided to give the authorities one more chance or else I will take legal action.


Tonight is the Bible study and tomorrow and Saturday are training sessions for our anti-drugs teams. Please pray. It was lovely to see last night how a young married couple have got back together as a result of the “Drug-Free” project and the help the husband battling with getting free from drugs received.


It was also great to see out young pastor in Teixeira lead a neighbour to the church to the Lord yesterday. PTL!

The above title is the title of my sermon tomorrow in the Patos church based on John 10. I finished preparing the message this morning. I will endeavour to present the context from John 9 (the healing of the man born blind) and the ensuing flack from the Pharisees as usual, which takes us into Jesus’s words in John 10. There Jesus declares that “the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber (the Pharisees?). The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep (Jesus)… I am the gate for the sheep… I am the good shepherd”. It is a great passage of Scripture and I am ready to roll and preach it!


Yesterday at Green Pastures I saw how the revamping of toilets (normal + special access) are progressing well.


It is good to see a new church plant at Jurema village in Tavares County getting started. There is no Gospel witness in this place and the challenge is great.


I have been preparing for the new anti-drug project training which will happen from next Thursday to Saturday. Then following that on the Sunday I’ll be dedicating baby Daniel. This Sunday is the monthly communion service. Then on the Sunday two weeks from now (18th) will be the Desert Flower Project special service when some of the rough diamonds from the project will be present to sell their hand made produce after the service.It will be wonderful to thus get these women into church and I will be preparing a special appropriate Gospel message for that night. Please pray.


Rainfall is now up to 19.3 inches at Green Pastures this year. PTL! Please keep praying.

The above title is the title of my sermon tomorrow in the Patos church based on John 10. I finished preparing the message this morning. I will endeavour to present the context from John 9 (the healing of the man born blind) and the ensuing flack from the Pharisees as usual, which takes us into Jesus’s words in John 10. There Jesus declares that “the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber (the Pharisees?). The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep (Jesus)… I am the gate for the sheep… I am the good shepherd”. It is a great passage of Scripture and I am ready to roll and preach it!


Yesterday at Green Pastures I saw how the revamping of toilets (normal + special access) are progressing well.


It is good to see a new church plant at Jurema village in Tavares County getting started. There is no Gospel witness in this place and the challenge is great.


I have been preparing for the new anti-drug project training which will happen from next Thursday to Saturday. Then following that on the Sunday I’ll be dedicating baby Daniel. This Sunday is the monthly communion service. Then on the Sunday two weeks from now (18th) will be the Desert Flower Project special service when some of the rough diamonds from the project will be present to sell their hand made produce after the service.It will be wonderful to thus get these women into church and I will be preparing a special appropriate Gospel message for that night. Please pray.


Rainfall is now up to 19.3 inches at Green Pastures this year. PTL! Please keep praying.

I have been flat out this week organizing the drug free project training sessions for next week from the 8th to 10th of March. So far we have enrolled:


23 for the training in João Pessoa on the Thursday.


14 for the training in Patos on the Friday.


15 for the training in Patos on the Saturday.


Your prayers are greatly valued for this tremendously needy field of action for the church of Jesus Christ.

I have been flat out this week organizing the drug free project training sessions for next week from the 8th to 10th of March. So far we have enrolled:


23 for the training in João Pessoa on the Thursday.


14 for the training in Patos on the Friday.


15 for the training in Patos on the Saturday.


Your prayers are greatly valued for this tremendously needy field of action for the church of Jesus Christ.

With the good rains thus far the imminent water supply collapse in February was averted at the last minute and we now have enough reserves to last to the end of August. PTL! Of course we obviously need a lot more as in the second half of the year it doesn’t rain like you don’t get snow in England in the summer. However we have water now and pray for lots more in March, April and May.


The 4 Patos reservoirs are now as follows:


Jatobá – the one you can see from the road in south Patos – now has 10.2% of its capacity.


Farinha – not far from Jatobá but a bit to the east – has 7.24%.


Capoeira – south west of Patos – has 8.2%.


Coremas – from where the pipeline comes and which even the BBC reported on back in 2002 – has reached 6.83%.


Thank you for your prayers. Please don’t stop praying. We pray that we will see all 4 reservoirs overflowing by June!

With the good rains thus far the imminent water supply collapse in February was averted at the last minute and we now have enough reserves to last to the end of August. PTL! Of course we obviously need a lot more as in the second half of the year it doesn’t rain like you don’t get snow in England in the summer. However we have water now and pray for lots more in March, April and May.


The 4 Patos reservoirs are now as follows:


Jatobá – the one you can see from the road in south Patos – now has 10.2% of its capacity.


Farinha – not far from Jatobá but a bit to the east – has 7.24%.


Capoeira – south west of Patos – has 8.2%.


Coremas – from where the pipeline comes and which even the BBC reported on back in 2002 – has reached 6.83%.


Thank you for your prayers. Please don’t stop praying. We pray that we will see all 4 reservoirs overflowing by June!

My sister Jean is doing a sugar fast to raise money for the EAB Desert Flower Project. Please have a look, support if you can with any amount and spread the word to friends.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jean-north

My sister Jean is doing a sugar fast to raise money for the EAB Desert Flower Project. Please have a look, support if you can with any amount and spread the word to friends.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jean-north

My sister Jean is doing a sugar fast to raise money for the EAB Desert Flower Project. Please have a look, support if you can with any amount and spread the word to friends.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jean-north

The youth led an afternoon of door-to-door evangelism today in Patos’s borough of Jatobá, having been very well trained for it. Then Liz and I joined them for a street meeting outside our school there this evening and it was excellent. A short play was performed, plus song and dance to praise the Lord and then Philip preached the Gospel. How lovely it was to see a young man at the street service who had committed his life to Christ during the door-to-door evangelism earlier. He says he’ll be in church tomorrow. PTL! Please pray for him and this new effort to plant a church in Jatobá borough.

The youth led an afternoon of door-to-door evangelism today in Patos’s borough of Jatobá, having been very well trained for it. Then Liz and I joined them for a street meeting outside our school there this evening and it was excellent. A short play was performed, plus song and dance to praise the Lord and then Philip preached the Gospel. How lovely it was to see a young man at the street service who had committed his life to Christ during the door-to-door evangelism earlier. He says he’ll be in church tomorrow. PTL! Please pray for him and this new effort to plant a church in Jatobá borough.

Tonight sees yet another start at planting a church in the Jatobá borough of Patos which I have been trying for about 20 years! It’s in south Patos, as opposed to north Patos where the church is, and it’s where we have our EAB Pastor Frank Dyer School. Hence we have a building… we have one young man converted in the borough over the years… and now the youth have taken up the gauntlet to do door-to-door evangelism and hold evangelistic services there. Please pray for continued persistance, blessing and many commitments to Christ this year!

Tonight sees yet another start at planting a church in the Jatobá borough of Patos which I have been trying for about 20 years! It’s in south Patos, as opposed to north Patos where the church is, and it’s where we have our EAB Pastor Frank Dyer School. Hence we have a building… we have one young man converted in the borough over the years… and now the youth have taken up the gauntlet to do door-to-door evangelism and hold evangelistic services there. Please pray for continued persistance, blessing and many commitments to Christ this year!

Tonight we have received the blessing of another just over half an inch of rain at Green Pastures, taking us up to the total of 14.3 inches in 2018 with 40 inches being our final goal by the end of the rainy season in May/June. We have to fill up lakes and reservoirs and plant now as the second half of the year is always drought. 


I’ve worked a lot on the ‘Drug Free’ Project today and on the 4 Legs Goat Project with 4 more EAB goats going to Belém Community in Tavares County and to Macambira Community in Princesa Isabel County. I have also has other discussions with pastors and leaders.


I had meetings with the Desert Flower Project leader also. The project at the moment is being a real blessing to 22 desperately needy mums and their kids. Some are starting to ask for prayer for their lives and two actually asked prayer for “deliverance” last week! God is working in their sin torn sad lives. Please continue to pray and support.

Tonight we have received the blessing of another just over half an inch of rain at Green Pastures, taking us up to the total of 14.3 inches in 2018 with 40 inches being our final goal by the end of the rainy season in May/June. We have to fill up lakes and reservoirs and plant now as the second half of the year is always drought. 


I’ve worked a lot on the ‘Drug Free’ Project today and on the 4 Legs Goat Project with 4 more EAB goats going to Belém Community in Tavares County and to Macambira Community in Princesa Isabel County. I have also has other discussions with pastors and leaders.


I had meetings with the Desert Flower Project leader also. The project at the moment is being a real blessing to 22 desperately needy mums and their kids. Some are starting to ask for prayer for their lives and two actually asked prayer for “deliverance” last week! God is working in their sin torn sad lives. Please continue to pray and support.

Tonight we have received the blessing of another just over half an inch of rain at Green Pastures, taking us up to the total of 14.3 inches in 2018 with 40 inches being our final goal by the end of the rainy season in May/June. We have to fill up lakes and reservoirs and plant now as the second half of the year is always drought. 


I’ve worked a lot on the ‘Drug Free’ Project today and on the 4 Legs Goat Project with 4 more EAB goats going to Belém Community in Tavares County and to Macambira Community in Princesa Isabel County. I have also has other discussions with pastors and leaders.


I had meetings with the Desert Flower Project leader also. The project at the moment is being a real blessing to 22 desperately needy mums and their kids. Some are starting to ask for prayer for their lives and two actually asked prayer for “deliverance” last week! God is working in their sin torn sad lives. Please continue to pray and support.

Our tour of European churches, family, friends and supporters is now set up and here are the details in case you haven’t already seen them:

Our tour of European churches, family, friends and supporters is now set up and here are the details in case you haven’t already seen them:

Sunday’s service in Patos was very good and there were 4 decisions for Christ at the end. PTL! When we say decisions we of course do not mean conversions as only time will tell that. They were people who raised their hands at the end of the service asking prayer in commitment to the Lord. Please pray for them.


More rain has fallen at Green Pastures this week bringing the current total for January and February to 13.6 inches. The lake is about one third full. PTL! 40 inches is our need and target. 


Now that the Carnival Camp is over we will be revamping some toilets and showers at Green Pastures including the necessary construction of one toilet for wheelchair users which we do not have and definitely need. 


The church at Princesa Isabel is EAB’s oldest church (1943) and is to be expanded. EAB will be helping towards this project too.


I am now preparing my sermon for Sunday on part of John 9. I have also had a lot of discussions and meetings with some of our church and project leaders today. 

Sunday’s service in Patos was very good and there were 4 decisions for Christ at the end. PTL! When we say decisions we of course do not mean conversions as only time will tell that. They were people who raised their hands at the end of the service asking prayer in commitment to the Lord. Please pray for them.


More rain has fallen at Green Pastures this week bringing the current total for January and February to 13.6 inches. The lake is about one third full. PTL! 40 inches is our need and target. 


Now that the Carnival Camp is over we will be revamping some toilets and showers at Green Pastures including the necessary construction of one toilet for wheelchair users which we do not have and definitely need. 


The church at Princesa Isabel is EAB’s oldest church (1943) and is to be expanded. EAB will be helping towards this project too.


I am now preparing my sermon for Sunday on part of John 9. I have also had a lot of discussions and meetings with some of our church and project leaders today. 

The Carnival Camp was a real blessing with 250 present. The theme this year for the messages was: EAB/ACEV 80 years – our commitment to integral mission carries on. “Here I am, send me”! (Isaiah 6:8)


The opening message on the Saturday night was brought by Pastor Wostenes (Campina Grande) on”what integral mission is and what it is not”. On the Sunday morning his wife Gleydice spoke on the place of art and culture in the integral mission of the church. On the Sunday night Pastor Gersé (Princesa Isabel) spoke about integral mission in rural areas drilling wells etc. On Monday morning Pastor Lindon Carlos (Imaculada) laid out the Biblical Basis for Integral Mission and at night I spoke about how environmental care is part of the integral mission of the church. On Tuesday morning our Social Worker Marah Danielle (Patos) spoke about the place of the woman in the integral mission of the church and the closing service that evening heard Pastor Rafael (Teixeira) speaking about church planting and evangelism as part of integral mission. 


As well as this Bible teaching there was much great praise and worship plus leisure times, walks, sport etc. There was a parallel programme for the children which also went well.


Thanks to one and all for your support and prayers.

I have just filmed this on this Monday morning after 4 inches of rain fell last night. This now takes us up to 9 inches this year. PTL! Thank you for praying. Our aim and need is 40 inches. Let it rain!

I have just filmed this on this Monday morning after 4 inches of rain fell last night. This now takes us up to 9 inches this year. PTL! Thank you for praying. Our aim and need is 40 inches. Let it rain!

On Friday night it rained two and a half inches at Green Pastures so this is wonderful. The best rain of the year so far! We have now nearly reached the five inch mark this year. PTL! We value your prayers for the Camp which runs until Wednesday.

On Friday night it rained two and a half inches at Green Pastures so this is wonderful. The best rain of the year so far! We have now nearly reached the five inch mark this year. PTL! We value your prayers for the Camp which runs until Wednesday.

On Friday night it rained two and a half inches at Green Pastures so this is wonderful. The best rain of the year so far! We have now nearly reached the five inch mark this year. PTL! We value your prayers for the Camp which runs until Wednesday.

This morning I had a meeting with the Federal Job Agency in Patos with a view to setting up a partnership with our Projects and Care Centre. I had a very profitable discussion with the director explaining our wide-ranging scope of projects and how one way to help people out of the poverty rut was to get them a job. This is especially difficult when someone has a drugs track record as does one man in our church, now off Crack for 20 months. PTL! We agreed a partnership in which we will send them CVs of folk from our projects needing work and I am thrilled to say that the man I mentioned got a job interview this afternoon already! PTL!


Last night’s “drug-free” project meeting was excellent. The meetings are for for people who have stopped using drugs and are fighting to stay off them, or the same for excessive alcoholism. The meetings are also to support the families of people affected by a family member on drugs or alcoholism. Last night we had people pouring their hearts out with all the stress of seeing family members under the grips of drugs or drink. It was wonderful to be able to really minister into these families. 


Liz and I continue flat out for the Carnival Camp which starts this Saturday. We expecting about 200 there and count on your prayers as we look to God for rich blessing.


The rain situation continues precarious. No rain this month yet at Green Pastures.