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In less than two hours the polling stations will open in Paraíba State where we will be voting in the second round of the general election for State Governor and National President. The top two candidates from round one on October 5th now will find out who is to be the Governor and President for the next 4 years. I am voting for both incumbant candidates – Ricardo and Dilma.


In the light of the election we will be having our service today at 8am so I will have my breakfast now and then head for church. May God bless you this Sunday!

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In less than two hours the polling stations will open in Paraíba State where we will be voting in the second round of the general election for State Governor and National President. The top two candidates from round one on October 5th now will find out who is to be the Governor and President for the next 4 years. I am voting for both incumbant candidates – Ricardo and Dilma.


In the light of the election we will be having our service today at 8am so I will have my breakfast now and then head for church. May God bless you this Sunday!

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I have just got home with Liz from a wake where a 91 year old lady is laying in her coffin and will be buried tomorrow morning. She is the mother of Sister Socorro Help – a member of our Patos church. 


The atmosphere at the wake is indescribable! It is total spiritual darkness. It is absolute oppression. 


I have been to hundreds of catholic wakes over the years… but this was so so different! It hit me the minute I walked in the house. It was like a flashback to the middle ages!


The dead woman was probably one of the leading… perhaps the leader… of radical middle age Mariological ranty catholicism. Catholicism at its worst. The catholic taliban. Liz tells me she has been receiving letters from this woman for years trying to convert her to Mary!


At the wake one shift after another of chanting women, all glassy eyed, keep chanting memorized prayers. It is haunting. It is oppressive. It is spiritual darkness. Everything is Mary. They are all dressed in identical blouses with Mary written all over them.


I thought within one minute of getting in the place… get me out of here… this is serious oppression. Then God spoke to my heart and said: “Look what I have done for Socorro Help (our church member – the daughter)! I have saved her from this together with her family”! And not only saved her but kept her for years despite intense pressure from the taliban! Lord have mercy! Thank you Jesus for your grace! I could almost hear Luther shouting out: “The just shall live by faith”! “He who the Son sets free is free indeed”!


We went and visited Socorro Help to talk to her and pray with her and she commented that she can’t stand it at her own mother’s wake. Please remember this dear sister and her family in your prayers! Her son is married and they go to our church but the taliban tell them they are not married and are living in sin because they weren’t married in a catholic church! Boy… Patos sure needs the Gospel!

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I have just got home with Liz from a wake where a 91 year old lady is laying in her coffin and will be buried tomorrow morning. She is the mother of Sister Socorro Help – a member of our Patos church. 


The atmosphere at the wake is indescribable! It is total spiritual darkness. It is absolute oppression. 


I have been to hundreds of catholic wakes over the years… but this was so so different! It hit me the minute I walked in the house. It was like a flashback to the middle ages!


The dead woman was probably one of the leading… perhaps the leader… of radical middle age Mariological ranty catholicism. Catholicism at its worst. The catholic taliban. Liz tells me she has been receiving letters from this woman for years trying to convert her to Mary!


At the wake one shift after another of chanting women, all glassy eyed, keep chanting memorized prayers. It is haunting. It is oppressive. It is spiritual darkness. Everything is Mary. They are all dressed in identical blouses with Mary written all over them.


I thought within one minute of getting in the place… get me out of here… this is serious oppression. Then God spoke to my heart and said: “Look what I have done for Socorro Help (our church member – the daughter)! I have saved her from this together with her family”! And not only saved her but kept her for years despite intense pressure from the taliban! Lord have mercy! Thank you Jesus for your grace! I could almost hear Luther shouting out: “The just shall live by faith”! “He who the Son sets free is free indeed”!


We went and visited Socorro Help to talk to her and pray with her and she commented that she can’t stand it at her own mother’s wake. Please remember this dear sister and her family in your prayers! Her son is married and they go to our church but the taliban tell them they are not married and are living in sin because they weren’t married in a catholic church! Boy… Patos sure needs the Gospel!

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The second and final stage of the Brazilian general elections will be tomorrow, with voting from 8am to 5pm. We will be voting for the State Governor of Paraíba and the national President. I have long declared my support for the re-election of the Governor of Paraíba – my friend Ricardo Coutinho. I will of course be voting for him and hoping and praying for success as he has been a fantastic governor in his first term of office and we badly need him to carry on the good work. He has, for example, over the past 4 years tarmacked more roads than could ever have been imagined! This is a fantastic help to EAB as we can get round the field so much easier and quicker. Places like Curral Velho and Passagem are now reached by tarmacked roads. It is wonderful! Even the road which links Ibiara to Manaíra has been tarmacked and that was an unbelievably terrible road.


I have only this morning declared my vote for president as this has been a much more difficult decision to take. I will be voting for the re-election of President Dilma. The decision has been difficult because on the one hand I have long recognized the tremendous social benefits to the poor that her party has brought since it came to power 12 years ago. On the other hand they have serious internal problems with corruption and some positions which I do not like as a Christian. However one never finds the ideal candidate so weighing everything up I have come to the conclusion that the work done for the poor is outstanding and this has tipped the balance and decided my vote.


Having declared my vote I said on facebook that I am just being up front, but will not get involved in arguments about the matter and asked people to respect this. Those who don’t – like one brother who has told me that evangelicals couldn’t possible vote for the re-election of Dilma – and went on with loads of arguments about different things – has had his comments eliminated from my page as I am just not going to be drawn in to arguments about this. I have prayed and thought and read a lot for weeks to bring me to my decision which I take very seriously – so there we are.


We should have the result for Governor probably by 7pm tomorrow (11pm UK time) and the result for President about 9pm I would guess (1am UK time). We watch and pray.


I have just heard that Sister Socorro Help’s mother has died. Sister Socorro Help is a member of our church and her mother was a staunch Roman Catholic in her 90s. The funeral will be at 8am tomorrow morning which is the same time as our church service – so we will have to somehow do both. Liz has just gone charging over to Sister Socorro Help to support her as she is …

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The second and final stage of the Brazilian general elections will be tomorrow, with voting from 8am to 5pm. We will be voting for the State Governor of Paraíba and the national President. I have long declared my support for the re-election of the Governor of Paraíba – my friend Ricardo Coutinho. I will of course be voting for him and hoping and praying for success as he has been a fantastic governor in his first term of office and we badly need him to carry on the good work. He has, for example, over the past 4 years tarmacked more roads than could ever have been imagined! This is a fantastic help to EAB as we can get round the field so much easier and quicker. Places like Curral Velho and Passagem are now reached by tarmacked roads. It is wonderful! Even the road which links Ibiara to Manaíra has been tarmacked and that was an unbelievably terrible road.


I have only this morning declared my vote for president as this has been a much more difficult decision to take. I will be voting for the re-election of President Dilma. The decision has been difficult because on the one hand I have long recognized the tremendous social benefits to the poor that her party has brought since it came to power 12 years ago. On the other hand they have serious internal problems with corruption and some positions which I do not like as a Christian. However one never finds the ideal candidate so weighing everything up I have come to the conclusion that the work done for the poor is outstanding and this has tipped the balance and decided my vote.


Having declared my vote I said on facebook that I am just being up front, but will not get involved in arguments about the matter and asked people to respect this. Those who don’t – like one brother who has told me that evangelicals couldn’t possible vote for the re-election of Dilma – and went on with loads of arguments about different things – has had his comments eliminated from my page as I am just not going to be drawn in to arguments about this. I have prayed and thought and read a lot for weeks to bring me to my decision which I take very seriously – so there we are.


We should have the result for Governor probably by 7pm tomorrow (11pm UK time) and the result for President about 9pm I would guess (1am UK time). We watch and pray.


I have just heard that Sister Socorro Help’s mother has died. Sister Socorro Help is a member of our church and her mother was a staunch Roman Catholic in her 90s. The funeral will be at 8am tomorrow morning which is the same time as our church service – so we will have to somehow do both. Liz has just gone charging over to Sister Socorro Help to support her as she is …

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The second and final stage of the Brazilian general elections will be tomorrow, with voting from 8am to 5pm. We will be voting for the State Governor of Paraíba and the national President. I have long declared my support for the re-election of the Governor of Paraíba – my friend Ricardo Coutinho. I will of course be voting for him and hoping and praying for success as he has been a fantastic governor in his first term of office and we badly need him to carry on the good work. He has, for example, over the past 4 years tarmacked more roads than could ever have been imagined! This is a fantastic help to EAB as we can get round the field so much easier and quicker. Places like Curral Velho and Passagem are now reached by tarmacked roads. It is wonderful! Even the road which links Ibiara to Manaíra has been tarmacked and that was an unbelievably terrible road.


I have only this morning declared my vote for president as this has been a much more difficult decision to take. I will be voting for the re-election of President Dilma. The decision has been difficult because on the one hand I have long recognized the tremendous social benefits to the poor that her party has brought since it came to power 12 years ago. On the other hand they have serious internal problems with corruption and some positions which I do not like as a Christian. However one never finds the ideal candidate so weighing everything up I have come to the conclusion that the work done for the poor is outstanding and this has tipped the balance and decided my vote.


Having declared my vote I said on facebook that I am just being up front, but will not get involved in arguments about the matter and asked people to respect this. Those who don’t – like one brother who has told me that evangelicals couldn’t possible vote for the re-election of Dilma – and went on with loads of arguments about different things – has had his comments eliminated from my page as I am just not going to be drawn in to arguments about this. I have prayed and thought and read a lot for weeks to bring me to my decision which I take very seriously – so there we are.


We should have the result for Governor probably by 7pm tomorrow (11pm UK time) and the result for President about 9pm I would guess (1am UK time). We watch and pray.


I have just heard that Sister Socorro Help’s mother has died. Sister Socorro Help is a member of our church and her mother was a staunch Roman Catholic in her 90s. The funeral will be at 8am tomorrow morning which is the same time as our church service – so we will have to somehow do both. Liz has just gone charging over to Sister Socorro Help to support her as she is …

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As I am on the road I have little time to blog and I am very tired. I got to Conceição at about 8pm last night and was out birding all day with my friend Fred. I will be off again in the morning early at 4.30am. It has been a very good day with my tally of bird registers in Brazil passed the 300 mark at 301. Today I photographed 3 new species of large woodpeckers! Absolutely beautiful!

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Having had my series of routine bi-monthlyish blood tests done this morning I have survived to live another day despite a morning with an empty arm! The results thus far received online are excellent:


Glucose before breakfast 5.5 / Glucose HBA1C 5.3% / Thyroid T4+TSH levels correct / Cholesterol fine. So PTL!


I have been working on a variety of administrative issues and will be shortly going on a bit of a trip with my Baptist pastor friend who is a nature lover like myself, so I will keep you informed of any good sightings or discoveries.

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Last night’s service in Patos was good and the sermon on the “Joy of the Lord is our Strength” seemed to encourage many people, so that’s good.


Today has been a good day. I was up at 5.20 and was off to Green Pastures after an early breakfast. There I discovered that the Mucuna Pruriens giant creeper plants (see photo) I have planted there, and which are appreciated by the animals as food, are being attacked by the wild guinea pigs, so we took emergency measures with old pipes to protect them up to a height that the wild guinea pigs can’t get them. I also collected a couple of carrier bags full of Tamarind fruits as these are excellent to combat glucose in the blood. They have quite a twang to them!

Tomorrow morning I have my bi-monthly routine blood tests to do so no eating for 12 hours prior to these – and another empty armed morning to face tomorrow!


The politics is very hot now with the second round run-offs on Sunday for Governor and President. By Sunday night we will have the results. Watch this space!

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QPR scored 4 but lost 3 x 2 to Liverpool with 2 own goals. Vargas was brought on with 12 minutes to go and scored twice for the Rrrrs. Definitely lock up ‘Arry in some place for treatment! It’s no good talking about who deserved what. Football is won by who scores more goals and that’s it. But it was heartbreaking to lose it like we did after coming back from behind twice. Very sad. By the way Balotelli is a pathetic replacement at Liverpool for Luiz Soares. Luckily for him the QPR defenders put the ball in the net when he couldn’t despite an open goal.


Oh well – that leaves Rangers more rock bottom than ever. I think I’ve seen this film before.

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QPR scored 4 but lost 3 x 2 to Liverpool with 2 own goals. Vargas was brought on with 12 minutes to go and scored twice for the Rrrrs. Definitely lock up ‘Arry in some place for treatment! It’s no good talking about who deserved what. Football is won by who scores more goals and that’s it. But it was heartbreaking to lose it like we did after coming back from behind twice. Very sad. By the way Balotelli is a pathetic replacement at Liverpool for Luiz Soares. Luckily for him the QPR defenders put the ball in the net when he couldn’t despite an open goal.


Oh well – that leaves Rangers more rock bottom than ever. I think I’ve seen this film before.

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Anybody who is able to and would like to donate to the work of EAB (Evangelical Action Brazil) can please do so online at http://www.eabrazil.com/ . The Mission has worked in NE Brazil for 76 years and has an integral mission vision for the work of the Church of Jesus Christ. That is: we believe in and seek to live out preaching and practicing the Gospel – which is the whole of God’s message of love for the whole man – body, soul and spirit. It’s no good just talking about it – you’ve got to DO it!

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Anybody who is able to and would like to donate to the work of EAB (Evangelical Action Brazil) can please do so online at http://www.eabrazil.com/ . The Mission has worked in NE Brazil for 76 years and has an integral mission vision for the work of the Church of Jesus Christ. That is: we believe in and seek to live out preaching and practicing the Gospel – which is the whole of God’s message of love for the whole man – body, soul and spirit. It’s no good just talking about it – you’ve got to DO it!

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Anybody who is able to and would like to donate to the work of EAB (Evangelical Action Brazil) can please do so online at http://www.eabrazil.com/ . The Mission has worked in NE Brazil for 76 years and has an integral mission vision for the work of the Church of Jesus Christ. That is: we believe in and seek to live out preaching and practicing the Gospel – which is the whole of God’s message of love for the whole man – body, soul and spirit. It’s no good just talking about it – you’ve got to DO it!

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There’s half an hour to the QPR x Liverpool kick-off and ‘Arry has made 5 changes, but still leaves Vargas on the bench who scored 2 for Chile last week! Why buy him? If ‘Arry can’t cope with Spanish speakers who aren’t fluent in Cockney it is a problem. Oh well! My forecast is 0 x 1 at half-time and 1 x 3 full-time. I can’t see us getting even a draw but I hope I’m wrong of course.


I have done a good bit of exercise in the pool this morning early. I need to round off my sermon for tonight in Patos now. Looking forward to it. I love preaching more and more!

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There’s half an hour to the QPR x Liverpool kick-off and ‘Arry has made 5 changes, but still leaves Vargas on the bench who scored 2 for Chile last week! Why buy him? If ‘Arry can’t cope with Spanish speakers who aren’t fluent in Cockney it is a problem. Oh well! My forecast is 0 x 1 at half-time and 1 x 3 full-time. I can’t see us getting even a draw but I hope I’m wrong of course.


I have done a good bit of exercise in the pool this morning early. I need to round off my sermon for tonight in Patos now. Looking forward to it. I love preaching more and more!

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An album of photos of the EAB Celebration is now available at https://www.facebook.com/eabrazil

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The annual EAB Celebration has just ended and it was really good. The P&W was excellent and a good number of supporters turned up. The live Skype link worked well as it has done so all day. Thanks to everyone who made the effort to be there. It is encouraging and appreciated. I felt free and well preaching. PTL!

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The annual EAB Celebration has just ended and it was really good. The P&W was excellent and a good number of supporters turned up. The live Skype link worked well as it has done so all day. Thanks to everyone who made the effort to be there. It is encouraging and appreciated. I felt free and well preaching. PTL!

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I have just finished taking part in the EAB Board meeting via Skype and all went very well. Many important subjects were discussed like adjustments to the Action Child programme in 2015 and general discussion on the annual field report.


Now it’s all stations go for the buffet tea at 5.30pm (I filled Hazel in with some last minute recipes) and then the 76th annual Celebration starting at 7pm. May God bless us all!

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I have just finished taking part in the EAB Board meeting via Skype and all went very well. Many important subjects were discussed like adjustments to the Action Child programme in 2015 and general discussion on the annual field report.


Now it’s all stations go for the buffet tea at 5.30pm (I filled Hazel in with some last minute recipes) and then the 76th annual Celebration starting at 7pm. May God bless us all!

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I did not have a good night’s sleep. I had my first Hypoglycemia (low glucose level in the blood) crisis for a long time. I had a shower before going to bed and then started to shake and felt awful. I immediatly checked my blood glucose level and it was the lowest I’ve recorded ever since I was diagnosed a diabetic. I then ate and drank appropriately and within an hour I was back to normal. However it messed up my night which was very disturbed and I only managed about 4 hour’s sleep.


Nevertheless I am now all ready to roll in the office with the EAB Board meeting in half and hour’s time. My message is also prepared for tonight’s EAB celebration and I have nearly finished the preparation of my sermon for tomorrow in Patos.


Watch this space and I’ll let you know how the Board meeting goes!

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I did not have a good night’s sleep. I had my first Hypoglycemia (low glucose level in the blood) crisis for a long time. I had a shower before going to bed and then started to shake and felt awful. I immediatly checked my blood glucose level and it was the lowest I’ve recorded ever since I was diagnosed a diabetic. I then ate and drank appropriately and within an hour I was back to normal. However it messed up my night which was very disturbed and I only managed about 4 hour’s sleep.


Nevertheless I am now all ready to roll in the office with the EAB Board meeting in half and hour’s time. My message is also prepared for tonight’s EAB celebration and I have nearly finished the preparation of my sermon for tomorrow in Patos.


Watch this space and I’ll let you know how the Board meeting goes!

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I went to Green Pastures twice today so today was a very good day! I love going there and it relaxes me so much and makes me feel good. This morning I went for a nice long walk along the track following the river bed downstream (if there was a stream!) from the dam and soon walked into two Limpkins (large aquatic birds) which I hadn’t seen around for a long time. They were gone in a flash before I could snap them, but I have set up my automatic infra-red camera in the pond by the dam where they must be hanging out. I then walked up past the “Woman’s Rock” and up right round the lake coming back down to the dam in the shade of the Tamarind trees, laden with fruits, as far as the dam again where I had started.


This afternoon I returned to Green Pastures because I had a message from the Environmental authorities telling me they would be arriving with more birds to set free at Green Pastures. It was lovely doing this and then having an excellent long chat with the leading environmentalist of the 3-man team which came.


The church ceiling was finished late last night, so I am very pleased about this too! The new aluminium window frames are now being fitted and the painters press on too. The work is progressing extremely well. PTL!


I have prepared most of my sermon for Sunday night in Patos so that is good. Tomorrow I will be speaking at the EAB annual Celebration via Skype and taking part in the EAB Board meeting earlier in the day. I’m looking forward to all this and hope to see you at the Celebration.

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I went to Green Pastures twice today so today was a very good day! I love going there and it relaxes me so much and makes me feel good. This morning I went for a nice long walk along the track following the river bed downstream (if there was a stream!) from the dam and soon walked into two Limpkins (large aquatic birds) which I hadn’t seen around for a long time. They were gone in a flash before I could snap them, but I have set up my automatic infra-red camera in the pond by the dam where they must be hanging out. I then walked up past the “Woman’s Rock” and up right round the lake coming back down to the dam in the shade of the Tamarind trees, laden with fruits, as far as the dam again where I had started.


This afternoon I returned to Green Pastures because I had a message from the Environmental authorities telling me they would be arriving with more birds to set free at Green Pastures. It was lovely doing this and then having an excellent long chat with the leading environmentalist of the 3-man team which came.


The church ceiling was finished late last night, so I am very pleased about this too! The new aluminium window frames are now being fitted and the painters press on too. The work is progressing extremely well. PTL!


I have prepared most of my sermon for Sunday night in Patos so that is good. Tomorrow I will be speaking at the EAB annual Celebration via Skype and taking part in the EAB Board meeting earlier in the day. I’m looking forward to all this and hope to see you at the Celebration.

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I went to Green Pastures twice today so today was a very good day! I love going there and it relaxes me so much and makes me feel good. This morning I went for a nice long walk along the track following the river bed downstream (if there was a stream!) from the dam and soon walked into two Limpkins (large aquatic birds) which I hadn’t seen around for a long time. They were gone in a flash before I could snap them, but I have set up my automatic infra-red camera in the pond by the dam where they must be hanging out. I then walked up past the “Woman’s Rock” and up right round the lake coming back down to the dam in the shade of the Tamarind trees, laden with fruits, as far as the dam again where I had started.


This afternoon I returned to Green Pastures because I had a message from the Environmental authorities telling me they would be arriving with more birds to set free at Green Pastures. It was lovely doing this and then having an excellent long chat with the leading environmentalist of the 3-man team which came.


The church ceiling was finished late last night, so I am very pleased about this too! The new aluminium window frames are now being fitted and the painters press on too. The work is progressing extremely well. PTL!


I have prepared most of my sermon for Sunday night in Patos so that is good. Tomorrow I will be speaking at the EAB annual Celebration via Skype and taking part in the EAB Board meeting earlier in the day. I’m looking forward to all this and hope to see you at the Celebration.

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The new ceiling in the Patos church is nearly completed and certainly will be finished by tomorrow, possibly today. It really does give you the feeling that finally we are getting there! You can see it at https://www.facebook.com/eabrazil

I have already set aside two weekends as our options for the church re-opening celebrations; either November 29th & 30th or December 13th & 14th. On the Saturday the ‘Tenda do Encontro’ P&W group (whose CDs and DVDs many will have) have reserved both Saturdays for us and the Patos Worship team will lead on the Sunday. We can’t define which weekend it will be as we don’t know yet how long all the finishing off final details are going to take, but obviously we would prefer the November weekend if possible.


Thanks to everyone for their prayers and for all those who helped us financially achieve this tremendous achievement for the glory of God!

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The new ceiling in the Patos church is nearly completed and certainly will be finished by tomorrow, possibly today. It really does give you the feeling that finally we are getting there! You can see it at https://www.facebook.com/eabrazil

I have already set aside two weekends as our options for the church re-opening celebrations; either November 29th & 30th or December 13th & 14th. On the Saturday the ‘Tenda do Encontro’ P&W group (whose CDs and DVDs many will have) have reserved both Saturdays for us and the Patos Worship team will lead on the Sunday. We can’t define which weekend it will be as we don’t know yet how long all the finishing off final details are going to take, but obviously we would prefer the November weekend if possible.


Thanks to everyone for their prayers and for all those who helped us financially achieve this tremendous achievement for the glory of God!

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days to go to the 76th annual EAB Celebration – this Saturday (18/10) –
5.30pm (buffet/chat) & 7pm (Celebration). Liz and I will be the speakers live direct from NE Brazil with the latest breaking
news! The place to be is the Lighthouse Community Church, Hardley,
Southampton, SO45 3NZ. We look forward to seeing you there!

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2
days to go to the 76th annual EAB Celebration – this Saturday (18/10) –
5.30pm (buffet/chat) & 7pm (Celebration). Liz and I will be the speakers live direct from NE Brazil with the latest breaking
news! The place to be is the Lighthouse Community Church, Hardley,
Southampton, SO45 3NZ. We look forward to seeing you there!

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This morning the investigation into how Bia became so ill last night is certainly going to be carried out! It was scary! The poor kid was apparently unconscious for about an hour and a half and when she eventually came round and came home from hospital it wasn’t until 3.30 am that her temperature got above the lowest point on the thermometer at 35ºC.


Anyway she is fine this morning, but Liz and Sacha slept little all night. We thank the Lord for bringing little Bia through this.


Yesterday I finished the preparation of my message for the EAB Celebration on Saturday so that is good. Please don’t forget to be there if you can!

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This morning the investigation into how Bia became so ill last night is certainly going to be carried out! It was scary! The poor kid was apparently unconscious for about an hour and a half and when she eventually came round and came home from hospital it wasn’t until 3.30 am that her temperature got above the lowest point on the thermometer at 35ºC.


Anyway she is fine this morning, but Liz and Sacha slept little all night. We thank the Lord for bringing little Bia through this.


Yesterday I finished the preparation of my message for the EAB Celebration on Saturday so that is good. Please don’t forget to be there if you can!

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Our granddaughter Bia has just been rushed to hospital by her mum Sacha and Liz. The doctor is keeping her in under observation. She has now come round, thankfully, as previously she was out like a light. Her blood pressure is very low so clearly too much medication was given her I would guess. Please continue to pray urgently.

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Our granddaughter Bia has just been rushed to hospital by her mum Sacha and Liz. The doctor is keeping her in under observation. She has now come round, thankfully, as previously she was out like a light. Her blood pressure is very low so clearly too much medication was given her I would guess. Please continue to pray urgently.

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Our granddaughter Bia has just been rushed to hospital by her mum Sacha and Liz. The doctor is keeping her in under observation. She has now come round, thankfully, as previously she was out like a light. Her blood pressure is very low so clearly too much medication was given her I would guess. Please continue to pray urgently.

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Please pray for our 4 year old granddaughter Beatriz (Bia) who has suddenly become quite dramatically unwell. She was fine this afternoon and then developed a 38ºC fever and was medicated by a doctor. However it is as if she has reacted to the medication or it was too strong for her and she looks really poorly. Please pray urgently!

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Please pray for our 4 year old granddaughter Beatriz (Bia) who has suddenly become quite dramatically unwell. She was fine this afternoon and then developed a 38ºC fever and was medicated by a doctor. However it is as if she has reacted to the medication or it was too strong for her and she looks really poorly. Please pray urgently!

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Ben Price is the pastor of the EAB/ACEV church in Ibiara and he has been into Patos today so we have been able to have a good chat about all sorts of aspects of the work here. Very good. Sad that he keeps on “blowing bubbles”, but apart from that he’s fine!


I am preparing my message for the EAB Celebration on Saturday today. I have started and will now endeavour to press on. I value your prayers.


The Patos church ceiling installation is progressing well, having started yesterday morning. The company doing this is saying it will complete the ceiling by tomorrow night so that will be good. The workers start early in the morning, work till 8pm and then sleep on the job! Amazing stuff!

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Ben Price is the pastor of the EAB/ACEV church in Ibiara and he has been into Patos today so we have been able to have a good chat about all sorts of aspects of the work here. Very good. Sad that he keeps on “blowing bubbles”, but apart from that he’s fine!


I am preparing my message for the EAB Celebration on Saturday today. I have started and will now endeavour to press on. I value your prayers.


The Patos church ceiling installation is progressing well, having started yesterday morning. The company doing this is saying it will complete the ceiling by tomorrow night so that will be good. The workers start early in the morning, work till 8pm and then sleep on the job! Amazing stuff!

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EAB’s
76th annual Celebration will be held this Saturday at the Lighthouse
Community Church, Hardley Green, Hardley, Southampton, SO45 3NZ. 5:30pm:
celebration buffet and chat.
7pm: service with special guests – John & Elizabeth Medcraft, live on video link from Patos, Brazil. Don’t miss it!

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EAB’s
76th annual Celebration will be held this Saturday at the Lighthouse
Community Church, Hardley Green, Hardley, Southampton, SO45 3NZ. 5:30pm:
celebration buffet and chat.
7pm: service with special guests – John & Elizabeth Medcraft, live on video link from Patos, Brazil. Don’t miss it!

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EAB’s
76th annual Celebration will be held this Saturday at the Lighthouse
Community Church, Hardley Green, Hardley, Southampton, SO45 3NZ. 5:30pm:
celebration buffet and chat.
7pm: service with special guests – John & Elizabeth Medcraft, live on video link from Patos, Brazil. Don’t miss it!

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I have just seen the great news that this coming weekend QPR has one of those easy games… at home to Liverpool! Flippin Aida! May the Lord help us! I’ll think about my forecast to put on the QPR fans page but it’s a question of guessing by how many goals we will lose? The mind boggles! Oh dear! The team is in disarray – Ferdinand came from Man. Utd but should have retired – and Vargas, who scored twice for Chile last week is not even picked to play. Please get your act together ‘Arry and quick or else I’m gonna be over there at Loftus Road to fix you!

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I have just seen the great news that this coming weekend QPR has one of those easy games… at home to Liverpool! Flippin Aida! May the Lord help us! I’ll think about my forecast to put on the QPR fans page but it’s a question of guessing by how many goals we will lose? The mind boggles! Oh dear! The team is in disarray – Ferdinand came from Man. Utd but should have retired – and Vargas, who scored twice for Chile last week is not even picked to play. Please get your act together ‘Arry and quick or else I’m gonna be over there at Loftus Road to fix you!

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