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Chapter 20 contains the return of Zophar with a scathing attack on Job’s integrity. Zophar says that Job is experiencing the inevitable results of hidden sin. He says that “the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment”. Zophar goes on to say that Job’s ill-gotten riches have become like poison in his stomach as he has exploited the poor. This Zophar says is combatted by God with arrows, darkness and fire as natural disasters punish Job’s alleged guilt. For he thinks it is God who has reclaimed houses, children and wealth as “rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath”.

In less than a week I have driven for 16 hours, and not always on so good roads! I praise God for health, strength and travelling mercies. On Thursday and Saturday 4 hours driving each day took us twice to the outreach, and then on Monday and Tuesday it was 4 hours each day from Patos to Caroá and then back. Thanks for your prayers.

QPR drew 0 x 0 again yesterday away to Oxford and so slip to half-way house on 12th in the 24 team Championship.

We do not believe in prosperity theology which teaches that you must not
go to the doctor and not take medicine but you must only seek divine supernatural
healing. We pray for the sick and we go to the doctor and take medicine too.
The way we get better doesn’t matter. If you have toothache what do you do?
Pray for divine intervention or go to the dentist? So the health recipe in our
churches is pray always whilst going to the doctor and the dentist.

Amy Gough has just left Patos with our daughter Lynn, her husband Hutan and their daughter Amanda. They will take Amy to the beach before taking her to the airport tomorrow for her return flight to England.

In less than a week I have driven for 16 hours, and not always on so good roads! I praise God for health, strength and travelling mercies. On Thursday and Saturday 4 hours driving each day took us twice to the outreach, and then on Monday and Tuesday it was 4 hours each day from Patos to Caroá and then back. Thanks for your prayers.

QPR drew 0 x 0 again yesterday away to Oxford and so slip to half-way house on 12th in the 24 team Championship.

We do not believe in prosperity theology which teaches that you must not
go to the doctor and not take medicine but you must only seek divine supernatural
healing. We pray for the sick and we go to the doctor and take medicine too.
The way we get better doesn’t matter. If you have toothache what do you do?
Pray for divine intervention or go to the dentist? So the health recipe in our
churches is pray always whilst going to the doctor and the dentist.

Amy Gough has just left Patos with our daughter Lynn, her husband Hutan and their daughter Amanda. They will take Amy to the beach before taking her to the airport tomorrow for her return flight to England.

Yesterday and today we have been travelling with our UK visitor Amy Gough and we have just got back at 4:30 pm. Yesterday we went up the mountains to Teixeira and showed Amy our church there. We then went on to visit our Matureia school and church and we were given a nice snack by Pastor Renilson and his wife Getiane. We then went by our churches at Juru and Tavares before showing Amy our original EAB/ACEV church which Bert Mundy built at Princesa Isabel in 1943. We then drove on to Caroá where we had a lovely evening meal of free-range chickens, rice, pumpkin and sweet potato.

In the evening we took part in a lovely service with a church packed out on a Monday night. Amy brought a word interpreted by Liz, the deputy mayoress brought a word of greeting and I preached the Gospel. The service was led by Pastor Valdemy.

This morning we visited the Caroa wells and the incipient market garden there. After this we headed to Manaira where we visited Pastor Francinaldo and his church and school followed by a visit to the little shop run by 85-year-old and father of 15 José Paulino, which started over 30 years ago, fruit of the EAB income generation project. 

On the way home we stopped at our Imaculada church, school and playground to show Amy. When on our way down the mountain we stopped for a drink of Guaraná and diet Coke at the viewing point of ‘Pedra do Tendó’ where Amy went climbing to the top of the big rock for a better view. 

Having descended the mountain we witnessed a dead man alongside the road with police taking photographs of him. Police say that the 44-year-old father of 2, who had been riding a bike, probably had suffered a heart attack as he had no signs of injury on his body.

Whilst we were away Patos received 60 mm of rain (2 and a half inches) but it didn’t rain a drop at Green Pastures.  Now it is raining again in Patos so we hope and pray that it will reach Green Pastures too.

Yesterday and today we have been travelling with our UK visitor Amy Gough and we have just got back at 4:30 pm. Yesterday we went up the mountains to Teixeira and showed Amy our church there. We then went on to visit our Matureia school and church and we were given a nice snack by Pastor Renilson and his wife Getiane. We then went by our churches at Juru and Tavares before showing Amy our original EAB/ACEV church which Bert Mundy built at Princesa Isabel in 1943. We then drove on to Caroá where we had a lovely evening meal of free-range chickens, rice, pumpkin and sweet potato.

In the evening we took part in a lovely service with a church packed out on a Monday night. Amy brought a word interpreted by Liz, the deputy mayoress brought a word of greeting and I preached the Gospel. The service was led by Pastor Valdemy.

This morning we visited the Caroa wells and the incipient market garden there. After this we headed to Manaira where we visited Pastor Francinaldo and his church and school followed by a visit to the little shop run by 85-year-old and father of 15 José Paulino, which started over 30 years ago, fruit of the EAB income generation project. 

On the way home we stopped at our Imaculada church, school and playground to show Amy. When on our way down the mountain we stopped for a drink of Guaraná and diet Coke at the viewing point of ‘Pedra do Tendó’ where Amy went climbing to the top of the big rock for a better view. 

Having descended the mountain we witnessed a dead man alongside the road with police taking photographs of him. Police say that the 44-year-old father of 2, who had been riding a bike, probably had suffered a heart attack as he had no signs of injury on his body.

Whilst we were away Patos received 60 mm of rain (2 and a half inches) but it didn’t rain a drop at Green Pastures.  Now it is raining again in Patos so we hope and pray that it will reach Green Pastures too.

I led the service last night in Patos and Murilo preached on the ‘Consequences of the Cross’ from Luke 23 which was an excellent sermon. All our young people that have just got back from the 10-day Outreach gave their testimonies and this was wonderful. Amy Gough, who will be going back to the cold of England on Thursday, also brought a short word interpreted by Bia. 

Today we are taking Amy to Caroá where we will take part in a service and show her some wells.

I led the service last night in Patos and Murilo preached on the ‘Consequences of the Cross’ from Luke 23 which was an excellent sermon. All our young people that have just got back from the 10-day Outreach gave their testimonies and this was wonderful. Amy Gough, who will be going back to the cold of England on Thursday, also brought a short word interpreted by Bia. 

Today we are taking Amy to Caroá where we will take part in a service and show her some wells.

I led the service last night in Patos and Murilo preached on the ‘Consequences of the Cross’ from Luke 23 which was an excellent sermon. All our young people that have just got back from the 10-day Outreach gave their testimonies and this was wonderful. Amy Gough, who will be going back to the cold of England on Thursday, also brought a short word interpreted by Bia. 

Today we are taking Amy to Caroá where we will take part in a service and show her some wells.

Job reacts to the criticisms of his friends saying they are crushing him with their words and shameless attacks. Job then goes on to bemoan that he has been wronged by God who has stripped him of his honour. God, says Job, has uprooted his hope and counts him as an enemy. Job then goes on to lament that owing to his suffering leaving him “skin and bones” he has been abandoned by his brothers, acquaintances, friends, kinsmen, servants and even his wife! Job then cries out asking for his friends to have pity on him as the hand of God has struck him. However then Job cries out some beautiful words of faith and trust in God saying: “I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes – I and not another. How my heart yearns within me!”

I preached last night in the final evangelistic service of the 10-day outreach. A very large crowd gathered in the main town square of Soledade with our worship group from Campina Grande leading the praise and the dance groups joining in. It was a wonderful service.

This 10-day outreach was the 24th year in succession that we have held them and this year’s team of 130 was a real blessing. They evangelized 480 houses and 1,075 people were personally evangelized as well as 423 children. 27 decisions to follow Christ were registered and 12 backsliders recommitted their lives to Christ. We will monitor these numbers to see how many are truly converted. 93 houses asked for a follow up visit. 22 Bibles were distributed and over 3,000 Gospel tracts were given out.

It was very good to have Bible College student from the UK with us this year Amy Gough. She will graduate with a degree in theology in June at the St. Mellitus College in London. I have asked her to write a short report on the 10-day Outreach pointing to what was good and what could be improved. Amy fitted in very well with the team and was especially helped by the English of Alice, Bia and Rayssa. 

QPR drew 0 x 0 yesterday away to Stoke and remain in a mid-table position (11th) in the Championship.

I preached last night in the final evangelistic service of the 10-day outreach. A very large crowd gathered in the main town square of Soledade with our worship group from Campina Grande leading the praise and the dance groups joining in. It was a wonderful service.

This 10-day outreach was the 24th year in succession that we have held them and this year’s team of 130 was a real blessing. They evangelized 480 houses and 1,075 people were personally evangelized as well as 423 children. 27 decisions to follow Christ were registered and 12 backsliders recommitted their lives to Christ. We will monitor these numbers to see how many are truly converted. 93 houses asked for a follow up visit. 22 Bibles were distributed and over 3,000 Gospel tracts were given out.

It was very good to have Bible College student from the UK with us this year Amy Gough. She will graduate with a degree in theology in June at the St. Mellitus College in London. I have asked her to write a short report on the 10-day Outreach pointing to what was good and what could be improved. Amy fitted in very well with the team and was especially helped by the English of Alice, Bia and Rayssa. 

QPR drew 0 x 0 yesterday away to Stoke and remain in a mid-table position (11th) in the Championship.

We are praying every day for Pastor Phil Watkins of Bristol Ivy Church and ask you to please join us in our prayers. Phil is undergoing chemotherapy for Leukaemia. 

I have just eaten a plate of watermelon. 😋

The Southern Wren is singing in our garden again. 🎶I also saw in the garden a Glittering-bellied Emerald Hummingbird. They are so beautiful and fast, rotating their wings in a figure eight 80 times per second!

On this penultimate day of the 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade our 130-strong team is holding a social action day with doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, hair dressers, manicurists etc. attending the poor. Then in the main closing open-air service in the town main square I will be going to preach the Gospel. Tomorrow the team will take part in an internal communion service in day 10 bringing the wonderfully blessed event to a close.  

We are praying every day for Pastor Phil Watkins of Bristol Ivy Church and ask you to please join us in our prayers. Phil is undergoing chemotherapy for Leukaemia. 

I have just eaten a plate of watermelon. 😋

The Southern Wren is singing in our garden again. 🎶I also saw in the garden a Glittering-bellied Emerald Hummingbird. They are so beautiful and fast, rotating their wings in a figure eight 80 times per second!

On this penultimate day of the 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade our 130-strong team is holding a social action day with doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, hair dressers, manicurists etc. attending the poor. Then in the main closing open-air service in the town main square I will be going to preach the Gospel. Tomorrow the team will take part in an internal communion service in day 10 bringing the wonderfully blessed event to a close.  

In this chapter Bildad returns to his attacks on Job as he had started in chapter 8. Bildad accuses Job of considering his 3 friends stupid and of wanting to alter basic factual structures as pertaining to the earth and its rocks in order to come to terms with his predicament. Bildad’s view clearly was that the reason for Job’s suffering was that he was “an evil man… who knows not God.” Job’s sin, thinks Bildad, makes him like a lamp snuffed out and with a weakened step. Job, he thinks, has been caught in a net, snared by a trap with a hidden noose awaiting him. Job’s “roots dry up below and his branches wither above.” Job, he feels, has no legacy, and is in a dark place “banished from the world” without offspring.

Job starts chapter 17 saying that his spirit is broken and that the grave awaits him. Job says that he has become a byword for everyone as they spit in his face! Despite such despairing feelings Job says “the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.” However then he switches back to despair criticizing the lack of wisdom of his friends and says his “plans are shattered.” Job returns to desire death saying his only hope is the grave and says his father is corruption and his mother or sister is the worm. He ends the chapter expressing his feeling of utter hopelessness asking, “Who can see any hope for me?”

Job starts chapter 17 saying that his spirit is broken and that the grave awaits him. Job says that he has become a byword for everyone as they spit in his face! Despite such despairing feelings Job says “the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.” However then he switches back to despair criticizing the lack of wisdom of his friends and says his “plans are shattered.” Job returns to desire death saying his only hope is the grave and says his father is corruption and his mother or sister is the worm. He ends the chapter expressing his feeling of utter hopelessness asking, “Who can see any hope for me?”

Job says that he has heard all Eliphaz’s arguments before. He complains about his miserable long-winded comforters. Job also complains about God’s harsh treatment of him devastating his household and assailing him with gnashed teeth. “All was well with me, but he (God) shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me.” Job accuses God of shooting arrows against him and piercing his kidneys. Job says his face is red with weeping and that deep shadows encircle his eyes despite him being free of violence and living a life of pure prayer. Job pleads with God for help.

Last night we went to Soledade to take part in the 10-day Outreach, day 7, which evangelized the Sítio Cordeiro rural community and held the evening service there. Pastor Robério led the service, Pastor Hamilton preached the Gospel and Liz and I took part with short words. The dance group did a presentation too and so did the drama group. It was a lovely service. The journey to Soledade took us 1 hour 45 minutes to get there.

Last night we went to Soledade to take part in the 10-day Outreach, day 7, which evangelized the Sítio Cordeiro rural community and held the evening service there. Pastor Robério led the service, Pastor Hamilton preached the Gospel and Liz and I took part with short words. The dance group did a presentation too and so did the drama group. It was a lovely service. The journey to Soledade took us 1 hour 45 minutes to get there.

We have just learnt of the murder of a 19-year-old niece of our member of the Green Pastures church Vilene. Her and her husband were involved in a traffic dispute on their motorbike in São Paulo and a car driver chased them and shot them both killing the wife and wounding the husband. Please pray for the family.

I had a nice video call yesterday with my 2 sisters Jean and Joy which was very good.

The 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade continues to go well with decisions being made for Christ. Our visitor Amy Gough is enjoying it and yesterday helped cook for the 130 participants and also spoke again in the evening service!

Our granddaughter Beatriz’s (Bia) 16th birthday is today. Happy Birthday Bia! 😘

We have just learnt of the murder of a 19-year-old niece of our member of the Green Pastures church Vilene. Her and her husband were involved in a traffic dispute on their motorbike in São Paulo and a car driver chased them and shot them both killing the wife and wounding the husband. Please pray for the family.

I had a nice video call yesterday with my 2 sisters Jean and Joy which was very good.

The 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade continues to go well with decisions being made for Christ. Our visitor Amy Gough is enjoying it and yesterday helped cook for the 130 participants and also spoke again in the evening service!

Our granddaughter Beatriz’s (Bia) 16th birthday is today. Happy Birthday Bia! 😘

We have just learnt of the murder of a 19-year-old niece of our member of the Green Pastures church Vilene. Her and her husband were involved in a traffic dispute on their motorbike in São Paulo and a car driver chased them and shot them both killing the wife and wounding the husband. Please pray for the family.

I had a nice video call yesterday with my 2 sisters Jean and Joy which was very good.

The 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade continues to go well with decisions being made for Christ. Our visitor Amy Gough is enjoying it and yesterday helped cook for the 130 participants and also spoke again in the evening service!

Our granddaughter Beatriz’s (Bia) 16th birthday is today. Happy Birthday Bia! 😘

It is quite amazing how frogs and toads survive in the drought by borrowing deep down in the sand of the dry river beds and hibernating there for months or even years. When heavy rain comes they reemerge singing and mating!

We had a quick shower of 5.5 mm of rain at Green Pastures which is a sign of hope. Multiply this by 200 and we will be smiling!

Liz led the Patos church prayer meeting, and we have been involved in extensive counselling.

Please keep praying for the Outreach at Soledade which has now reached the half-way stage with 5 days completed. The team washes toilets, sweeps floors, cooks food, prays, does door-to-door evangelism, praises, preaches, does drama and dance etc. etc. May the 130-strong team continue to pull together for the glory of God!

It is quite amazing how frogs and toads survive in the drought by borrowing deep down in the sand of the dry river beds and hibernating there for months or even years. When heavy rain comes they reemerge singing and mating!

We had a quick shower of 5.5 mm of rain at Green Pastures which is a sign of hope. Multiply this by 200 and we will be smiling!

Liz led the Patos church prayer meeting, and we have been involved in extensive counselling.

Please keep praying for the Outreach at Soledade which has now reached the half-way stage with 5 days completed. The team washes toilets, sweeps floors, cooks food, prays, does door-to-door evangelism, praises, preaches, does drama and dance etc. etc. May the 130-strong team continue to pull together for the glory of God!

It is quite amazing how frogs and toads survive in the drought by borrowing deep down in the sand of the dry river beds and hibernating there for months or even years. When heavy rain comes they reemerge singing and mating!

We had a quick shower of 5.5 mm of rain at Green Pastures which is a sign of hope. Multiply this by 200 and we will be smiling!

Liz led the Patos church prayer meeting, and we have been involved in extensive counselling.

Please keep praying for the Outreach at Soledade which has now reached the half-way stage with 5 days completed. The team washes toilets, sweeps floors, cooks food, prays, does door-to-door evangelism, praises, preaches, does drama and dance etc. etc. May the 130-strong team continue to pull together for the glory of God!

The amount of universes that exist is unknown, but the amount of stars
that exist in our universe alone is estimated to be between 10 sextillion and 2
septillion, which means there are more stars than grains of sand on all the
earth’s beaches! However stars rarely collide. “The heavens declare the glory
of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands”. (Psalm 19:1)

Yesterday the 10-day evangelistic outreach team held a street service in
the morning in the weekly Soledade street market and greatly impacted the town. The team did door-to-door evangelism in the afternoon and held a street service at night. There have already been a number of decisions of commitment to Christ made as a result of the team’s ministry. 

We have reached nearly 450 comments on this blog and we thank one and
all. Special thanks go to Roberto
Tiburtino, Veronica Morais and Pastor Manoel Oliveira Filho. Please remember
that if you don’t write your name I have no way of knowing who wrote the
comment.

The amount of universes that exist is unknown, but the amount of stars
that exist in our universe alone is estimated to be between 10 sextillion and 2
septillion, which means there are more stars than grains of sand on all the
earth’s beaches! However stars rarely collide. “The heavens declare the glory
of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands”. (Psalm 19:1)

Yesterday the 10-day evangelistic outreach team held a street service in
the morning in the weekly Soledade street market and greatly impacted the town. The team did door-to-door evangelism in the afternoon and held a street service at night. There have already been a number of decisions of commitment to Christ made as a result of the team’s ministry. 

We have reached nearly 450 comments on this blog and we thank one and
all. Special thanks go to Roberto
Tiburtino, Veronica Morais and Pastor Manoel Oliveira Filho. Please remember
that if you don’t write your name I have no way of knowing who wrote the
comment.

Last night our daughter Sacha led the service in Patos and I preached on King Hezekiah of Judah from 2 Kings 18:1-4. It was a lovely service.

The 10-day outreach at Soledade pressed on in its third day of blessing. The 130-strong team went out doing door-to-door evangelism in the afternoon and did a street service at night in one of Soledade’s boroughs. In the morning they did prayer and Bible study.

QPR were knocked out of the FA Cup yesterday away to West Ham 2 x 1 after extra time. Long gone are the days when we won the League Cup at Wembley. I was there and I was 18, and I started going out with Liz later that month of March 1967.

Our son Philip has gone to Holland today with his work.

Last night our daughter Sacha led the service in Patos and I preached on King Hezekiah of Judah from 2 Kings 18:1-4. It was a lovely service.

The 10-day outreach at Soledade pressed on in its third day of blessing. The 130-strong team went out doing door-to-door evangelism in the afternoon and did a street service at night in one of Soledade’s boroughs. In the morning they did prayer and Bible study.

QPR were knocked out of the FA Cup yesterday away to West Ham 2 x 1 after extra time. Long gone are the days when we won the League Cup at Wembley. I was there and I was 18, and I started going out with Liz later that month of March 1967.

Our son Philip has gone to Holland today with his work.

Last night I went and held the weekly Green Pastures Church service and I preached on the feeding of the five thousand from John 6. Sister Nega led the praise and worship. She sings really nicely. It was lovely to see sister Odilia at the service aged 92 and fully active.

On the earth road on the way to the service I saw a Pigmy Nightjar. 

The service on the second night of the 10-day outreach, with a team of 130, was held alongside the church in the open-air, and went very well. Amy Gough from Southampton gave a word in the service.

A 36-year-old woman was bitten by a shark at the island of Fernando de Noronha but thankfully survived. We have been to this island both with Bob and Jo Dalton and with Marian Rashleigh.

Last night I went and held the weekly Green Pastures Church service and I preached on the feeding of the five thousand from John 6. Sister Nega led the praise and worship. She sings really nicely. It was lovely to see sister Odilia at the service aged 92 and fully active.

On the earth road on the way to the service I saw a Pigmy Nightjar. 

The service on the second night of the 10-day outreach, with a team of 130, was held alongside the church in the open-air, and went very well. Amy Gough from Southampton gave a word in the service.

A 36-year-old woman was bitten by a shark at the island of Fernando de Noronha but thankfully survived. We have been to this island both with Bob and Jo Dalton and with Marian Rashleigh.

Yesterday I went to Green Pastures where I saw an Iguana lizard and a Ferruginous Pigmy-Owl. The drought here is utterly catastrophic and the rain just doesn’t come! 🙏

The 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade is underway and in its second day with a team of 130 mainly young people. The outreach is under the leadership of pastors Robério and Rafael and Missionary Betânia. Please pray.

Yesterday I went to Green Pastures where I saw an Iguana lizard and a Ferruginous Pigmy-Owl. The drought here is utterly catastrophic and the rain just doesn’t come! 🙏

The 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade is underway and in its second day with a team of 130 mainly young people. The outreach is under the leadership of pastors Robério and Rafael and Missionary Betânia. Please pray.

Yesterday I went to Green Pastures where I saw an Iguana lizard and a Ferruginous Pigmy-Owl. The drought here is utterly catastrophic and the rain just doesn’t come! 🙏

The 10-day evangelistic outreach at Soledade is underway and in its second day with a team of 130 mainly young people. The outreach is under the leadership of pastors Robério and Rafael and Missionary Betânia. Please pray.

Yesterday we took Amy to the Diamante (Diamond), Barra de Oitis and Vazante churches and projects. The initial nearly 2-hour journey west was on asphalt, but from then on the roads were bumpy earth roads. We showed Amy many toilet/shower units built for the poor and some market garden projects which are doing very well despite the drought. We had lunch at Pastor Nezinho Abílio’s house where I ate a lovely tilapia fish. At night I preached at the Diamante church and Amy brought a word of greeting interpreted by Liz. We got home a little before midnight after a lovely day.

The 10-day Outreach starts today at Soledade. Please pray. Amy has gone together with our granddaughters Alice and Bia who both speak English. 

Yesterday we took Amy to the Diamante (Diamond), Barra de Oitis and Vazante churches and projects. The initial nearly 2-hour journey west was on asphalt, but from then on the roads were bumpy earth roads. We showed Amy many toilet/shower units built for the poor and some market garden projects which are doing very well despite the drought. We had lunch at Pastor Nezinho Abílio’s house where I ate a lovely tilapia fish. At night I preached at the Diamante church and Amy brought a word of greeting interpreted by Liz. We got home a little before midnight after a lovely day.

The 10-day Outreach starts today at Soledade. Please pray. Amy has gone together with our granddaughters Alice and Bia who both speak English. 

Amy has been on a tour of Patos visiting our friend Dona Florzinha in the borough of Placas, followed by visits to the the boroughs of Sete Casas and Serrote Liso where we always distribute food hampers. She then visited the meat market where she found the cow intestines interesting, before going into the central market where she met Jesiel who used to be in Philip’s band called ‘Lift Off’. Liz then took Amy to visit the Roman Catholic shrine called ‘Cruz da Menina’.

After lunch we went to the Pastor Frank Dyer School followed by a visit to Green Pastures. I showed Amy the meeting hall, kitchen, EAB/ACEV museum, bedrooms, dormitories, swimming pool etc. and took her on a short walk along a dry and barren nature trail where we saw lots of Armadillo burrows. On our visit we saw a pair of Pearl Kites, a pair of Caatinga Cacholotes and a Roadside Hawk. We also heard Campo Troupials and Rufous-bellied Thrushes.

The Life-Squad (Pastor Rafael, Roberto Tiburtino and Iara) evangelized the Men’s prison again yesterday and 3 men made commitments to Christ.

Amy has been on a tour of Patos visiting our friend Dona Florzinha in the borough of Placas, followed by visits to the the boroughs of Sete Casas and Serrote Liso where we always distribute food hampers. She then visited the meat market where she found the cow intestines interesting, before going into the central market where she met Jesiel who used to be in Philip’s band called ‘Lift Off’. Liz then took Amy to visit the Roman Catholic shrine called ‘Cruz da Menina’.

After lunch we went to the Pastor Frank Dyer School followed by a visit to Green Pastures. I showed Amy the meeting hall, kitchen, EAB/ACEV museum, bedrooms, dormitories, swimming pool etc. and took her on a short walk along a dry and barren nature trail where we saw lots of Armadillo burrows. On our visit we saw a pair of Pearl Kites, a pair of Caatinga Cacholotes and a Roadside Hawk. We also heard Campo Troupials and Rufous-bellied Thrushes.

The Life-Squad (Pastor Rafael, Roberto Tiburtino and Iara) evangelized the Men’s prison again yesterday and 3 men made commitments to Christ.

Amy has been on a tour of Patos visiting our friend Dona Florzinha in the borough of Placas, followed by visits to the the boroughs of Sete Casas and Serrote Liso where we always distribute food hampers. She then visited the meat market where she found the cow intestines interesting, before going into the central market where she met Jesiel who used to be in Philip’s band called ‘Lift Off’. Liz then took Amy to visit the Roman Catholic shrine called ‘Cruz da Menina’.

After lunch we went to the Pastor Frank Dyer School followed by a visit to Green Pastures. I showed Amy the meeting hall, kitchen, EAB/ACEV museum, bedrooms, dormitories, swimming pool etc. and took her on a short walk along a dry and barren nature trail where we saw lots of Armadillo burrows. On our visit we saw a pair of Pearl Kites, a pair of Caatinga Cacholotes and a Roadside Hawk. We also heard Campo Troupials and Rufous-bellied Thrushes.

The Life-Squad (Pastor Rafael, Roberto Tiburtino and Iara) evangelized the Men’s prison again yesterday and 3 men made commitments to Christ.

Liz travelled to Recife airport yesterday, with Netinho from the Patos church, in order to meet Amy Gough from Southampton who is a theology degree student at St Mellitus College and who is coming to experience our 10-day evangelistic outreach, with a team of 130 mainly young people, which will be held this year at Soledade. There are a number on the outreach who speak English, including our granddaughters Alice and Bia, so communication will be no problem. We will also be taking her before and after the outreach to visit some of our churches and projects further in the interior.

Amy’s flight arrived about 30 minutes late and she came through customs at Recife airport about three quarters of an hour before midnight, so they slept the night at the Ibis Airport hotel from where they will be driving to Patos today. Welcome to EAB/ACEV and Brazil Amy! May God richly bless you with us!

Great Kiskadees, Smooth-billed Anis and Variable Orioles have been around our house in Patos. Birds not normally found in towns seem to be coming in in search of food and water. The drought here is catastrophic. 

I finished writing this year’s Easter play yesterday which our drama group will perform on April 4th which will be Easter Sunday. The play is called “Two Days to Easter” (Matthew 26:2). Having finished I have already got ideas for the Easter play 2027!

Liz travelled to Recife airport yesterday, with Netinho from the Patos church, in order to meet Amy Gough from Southampton who is a theology degree student at St Mellitus College and who is coming to experience our 10-day evangelistic outreach, with a team of 130 mainly young people, which will be held this year at Soledade. There are a number on the outreach who speak English, including our granddaughters Alice and Bia, so communication will be no problem. We will also be taking her before and after the outreach to visit some of our churches and projects further in the interior.

Amy’s flight arrived about 30 minutes late and she came through customs at Recife airport about three quarters of an hour before midnight, so they slept the night at the Ibis Airport hotel from where they will be driving to Patos today. Welcome to EAB/ACEV and Brazil Amy! May God richly bless you with us!

Great Kiskadees, Smooth-billed Anis and Variable Orioles have been around our house in Patos. Birds not normally found in towns seem to be coming in in search of food and water. The drought here is catastrophic. 

I finished writing this year’s Easter play yesterday which our drama group will perform on April 4th which will be Easter Sunday. The play is called “Two Days to Easter” (Matthew 26:2). Having finished I have already got ideas for the Easter play 2027!

Ipueira is a small town of just over 2,000 population in the state north of us called Rio Grande do Norte. We have been working there for God for 13 years led by deacon Dedé and the ‘Christians in Action’ team from Patos. We have now managed to purchase a piece of land for the building of a small church there. Please pray for this venture of faith.

QPR beat bottom of the Championship Sheffield Wednesday (with minus 7 points!) yesterday 3 x 0 at home. 😀

Last night I led the communion service in Patos and Pastor Rafael preached on being in the world but not of the world from John 17:14-19. It was a good service. It was good to see 7 deaf people in church with another 10 or so missing. This ministry to the deaf is doing a great work. 

Yesterday Pastor Jair, who leads our second church in Princesa Isabel in the da Baixa borough, baptized 5 new converts. PTL!