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I got up at 5.40 am today and went for a good two and a half mile walk at Green Pastures which was nice. I picked up the Bushnell automatic camera memory cards when there and was happy to see we picked up good 30 second videos of a Crane Hawk, an Opossum, a pair of ground doves and a beautiful family of 12 wild ducklings. The rains are finished so the stream is fast drying up with rich food supplies for wild ducks in the shallow waters. These videos all will be posted on the Green Pastures Nature Reserve’s Facebook page which seeks to encourage people to value creation and help preserve nature. 


Last night’s service went very well. I led the service, Philip and Louisa led the worship and Louisa and her fellow law student Rayla brought a two part message which was excellent. I asked them to do this so as to vary things a bit and because I knew I would be very busy last week with the London School of Theology Conference. I have already started preparing my sermon for this coming Sunday and then it’s on to preparing the Bible study for Thursday. We value your prayers and support always.

I got up at 5.40 am today and went for a good two and a half mile walk at Green Pastures which was nice. I picked up the Bushnell automatic camera memory cards when there and was happy to see we picked up good 30 second videos of a Crane Hawk, an Opossum, a pair of ground doves and a beautiful family of 12 wild ducklings. The rains are finished so the stream is fast drying up with rich food supplies for wild ducks in the shallow waters. These videos all will be posted on the Green Pastures Nature Reserve’s Facebook page which seeks to encourage people to value creation and help preserve nature. 


Last night’s service went very well. I led the service, Philip and Louisa led the worship and Louisa and her fellow law student Rayla brought a two part message which was excellent. I asked them to do this so as to vary things a bit and because I knew I would be very busy last week with the London School of Theology Conference. I have already started preparing my sermon for this coming Sunday and then it’s on to preparing the Bible study for Thursday. We value your prayers and support always.

The Deaf Fellowship in the pandemic goes ahead well. I have discussed things with deaf pastor Luiz Carlos who tells me that on Mondays they meet online for prayer and Bible meditations. On Tuesdays they meet to have a general chat ending up with something from the Bible. On Wednesdays and Saturdays their meetings are open to the interpreters too as well as non-Christian deaf people. On Thursday Pastor Luiz Carlos does a Bible Study and on Sunday morning there’s the deafs’ Sunday School. Then they watch the main evening service which I lead and which is signed for the deaf. So as you can see the deaf fellowship is very active and being blessed of God. Thank you for your prayers and support.


We have now defined which families are going to get toilet/shower units built at the ex-slave community of Barra de Oitis. These are game changing moments for very poor people’s lives as these units are built and equipped with flush toilets, showers, hand basins, clothes washing sinks, water tanks above and cess pits beneath. 

The Deaf Fellowship in the pandemic goes ahead well. I have discussed things with deaf pastor Luiz Carlos who tells me that on Mondays they meet online for prayer and Bible meditations. On Tuesdays they meet to have a general chat ending up with something from the Bible. On Wednesdays and Saturdays their meetings are open to the interpreters too as well as non-Christian deaf people. On Thursday Pastor Luiz Carlos does a Bible Study and on Sunday morning there’s the deafs’ Sunday School. Then they watch the main evening service which I lead and which is signed for the deaf. So as you can see the deaf fellowship is very active and being blessed of God. Thank you for your prayers and support.


We have now defined which families are going to get toilet/shower units built at the ex-slave community of Barra de Oitis. These are game changing moments for very poor people’s lives as these units are built and equipped with flush toilets, showers, hand basins, clothes washing sinks, water tanks above and cess pits beneath. 

The Deaf Fellowship in the pandemic goes ahead well. I have discussed things with deaf pastor Luiz Carlos who tells me that on Mondays they meet online for prayer and Bible meditations. On Tuesdays they meet to have a general chat ending up with something from the Bible. On Wednesdays and Saturdays their meetings are open to the interpreters too as well as non-Christian deaf people. On Thursday Pastor Luiz Carlos does a Bible Study and on Sunday morning there’s the deafs’ Sunday School. Then they watch the main evening service which I lead and which is signed for the deaf. So as you can see the deaf fellowship is very active and being blessed of God. Thank you for your prayers and support.


We have now defined which families are going to get toilet/shower units built at the ex-slave community of Barra de Oitis. These are game changing moments for very poor people’s lives as these units are built and equipped with flush toilets, showers, hand basins, clothes washing sinks, water tanks above and cess pits beneath. 

I started the Bible Study last night with a discussion of ‘soul sleep’ from the last word of Acts 7 linked to 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. From this I went into Acts 8 covering the section about the church being persecuted and scattered + Philip in Samaria + Simon the sorcerer. In verses 14-17 we covered the difficult section of the receiving of the Holy Spirit by the Samarians. It all went well and was a blessing for the 33 people taking part via Google Meet. 


This was followed by Philip and his serenade of old hymns which is very popular and which went very well again. It is interesting to observe how many backslidden Christians are attracted by this and request certain hymns to be sung. It’s good Philip has an amazing memory! We pray God will touch these people far from God through this means. We certainly will miss Philip when he returns to England with his family as he plans to.

I started the Bible Study last night with a discussion of ‘soul sleep’ from the last word of Acts 7 linked to 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. From this I went into Acts 8 covering the section about the church being persecuted and scattered + Philip in Samaria + Simon the sorcerer. In verses 14-17 we covered the difficult section of the receiving of the Holy Spirit by the Samarians. It all went well and was a blessing for the 33 people taking part via Google Meet. 


This was followed by Philip and his serenade of old hymns which is very popular and which went very well again. It is interesting to observe how many backslidden Christians are attracted by this and request certain hymns to be sung. It’s good Philip has an amazing memory! We pray God will touch these people far from God through this means. We certainly will miss Philip when he returns to England with his family as he plans to.

I finished the 4-day Summer Conference today with the London School of Theology. It was a tiring time as I had to set my alarm for 4:30 each day, grab a wake-me-up shower and then be online for a 5 am kick off. It then went through to 11:15 am each day (3:15 pm) in the UK. 

The first speaker each day was John Goldingay on Jeremiah. It was a challenging good review of the structure of the book and its theology. To quote John today on Jeremiah’s theology “God is in control of His memory. He can forget things.” And “God is immutable but He is flexible and can change His mind.”


The current principal of LST is Mark Cartledge and he chaired the whole conference. He also spoke on the first day and showed himself to be an Anglican who is very open to the Holy Spirit moving in Scripture and in today’s church. He was very good.


Another speaker was a lady called Dr. Kimberley Alexander from North Carolina who spoke on ‘Women and Scripture’. Instead of a justification of women’s ministry she just showed from her research how women are powerful expositors of the Scripture. She was excellent.


A further speaker was Brad Emry who brought some extremely challenging thoughts on ‘Scripture and violence’ especially working through the difficult texts of Judges 11 (Jephthah and the sacrifice of his daughter) and Judges 19 (The Levite and his concubine). Such scriptures stretch anyone to the limit! 


Joan Cartledge also spoke on ‘Disability, Scripture, Inclusion and the Church’. This was good and what we already believe and practice. 


So this Conference was something good that came out as a result of the current pandemic. 

I finished the 4-day Summer Conference today with the London School of Theology. It was a tiring time as I had to set my alarm for 4:30 each day, grab a wake-me-up shower and then be online for a 5 am kick off. It then went through to 11:15 am each day (3:15 pm) in the UK. 

The first speaker each day was John Goldingay on Jeremiah. It was a challenging good review of the structure of the book and its theology. To quote John today on Jeremiah’s theology “God is in control of His memory. He can forget things.” And “God is immutable but He is flexible and can change His mind.”


The current principal of LST is Mark Cartledge and he chaired the whole conference. He also spoke on the first day and showed himself to be an Anglican who is very open to the Holy Spirit moving in Scripture and in today’s church. He was very good.


Another speaker was a lady called Dr. Kimberley Alexander from North Carolina who spoke on ‘Women and Scripture’. Instead of a justification of women’s ministry she just showed from her research how women are powerful expositors of the Scripture. She was excellent.


A further speaker was Brad Emry who brought some extremely challenging thoughts on ‘Scripture and violence’ especially working through the difficult texts of Judges 11 (Jephthah and the sacrifice of his daughter) and Judges 19 (The Levite and his concubine). Such scriptures stretch anyone to the limit! 


Joan Cartledge also spoke on ‘Disability, Scripture, Inclusion and the Church’. This was good and what we already believe and practice. 


So this Conference was something good that came out as a result of the current pandemic. 

I am writing EAB/ACEV history in Portuguese and today reached our 50th anniversary in 1988. I wrote and published EAB’s first 40 years back in 2012 in English. The Portuguese version is different as it goes into details interesting to Brazilians and irrelevant to overseas folk. So too many UK details are of no interest to people here. 1988 was the year we took major steps to reorganize the work in Brazil. We are today 82 years old as a Mission so I’ve got 32 years to go! 

I am writing EAB/ACEV history in Portuguese and today reached our 50th anniversary in 1988. I wrote and published EAB’s first 40 years back in 2012 in English. The Portuguese version is different as it goes into details interesting to Brazilians and irrelevant to overseas folk. So too many UK details are of no interest to people here. 1988 was the year we took major steps to reorganize the work in Brazil. We are today 82 years old as a Mission so I’ve got 32 years to go! 

I have just finished my third of 4 days at the London School of Theology’s Summer Conference online and on top of more on Jeremiah and Daniel we had some particularly difficult Biblical passages involving violence such as Judges 11 and 19! Certainly forced me to think but I don’t have any answers yet. Yesterday the woman speaker from the USA, Kimberley Alexander, was particularly interesting on Women & Scriptures. The message was the result of her own research and was excellent. 


The Men’s Fellowship Group met last night on line and that went very well as did the prayer ‘knees to the ground’ meeting as it is called.


I walked for two miles yesterday afternoon at Green Pastures. It’s important to keep fit in these difficult days. 

I preached on Philippians 1:12-26 last night and it went very well. It was the communion service with Philip & Louisa leading the worship and Philip conducted communion. 


The youth concluded their online Conference on Saturday night ending their 5 night event which was a real blessing with 90 to a 100 taking part each night.


I was up at 4:30 am today to take part in the first day of the 4-day London School of Theology Summer Conference. John Goldingay spoke on Jeremiah: the man and the scroll. Then Mark Cartledge spoke on Scripture, the Church and the Holy Spirit. It was a very interesting and blessed time. I found it very encouraging. It was good to be back at LST! 


I am now preparing for Thursday’s Bible study working on Acts 8.

I preached on Philippians 1:12-26 last night and it went very well. It was the communion service with Philip & Louisa leading the worship and Philip conducted communion. 


The youth concluded their online Conference on Saturday night ending their 5 night event which was a real blessing with 90 to a 100 taking part each night.


I was up at 4:30 am today to take part in the first day of the 4-day London School of Theology Summer Conference. John Goldingay spoke on Jeremiah: the man and the scroll. Then Mark Cartledge spoke on Scripture, the Church and the Holy Spirit. It was a very interesting and blessed time. I found it very encouraging. It was good to be back at LST! 


I am now preparing for Thursday’s Bible study working on Acts 8.

Last night’s Bible study went very well as we covered Acts 6 and 7. This was followed by another session of the singing of older hymns and songs by Philip which went very well too. 


Today is Philip’s 42nd birthday. We went out together for a nice walk together at Green Pastures to celebrate. We walked 4,5 km.


The Youth online conference is in its 4th night tonight and continues in real blessing. They are having about 90 taking part every night. At the other end of the age scale the seniors had another online session this morning which they love. 


I am glad to report that our pastor Nemias at Flores is better from the Covid virus as are his wife and son. His mother Nevinha is improving too. PTL! Thanks for all your prayers and support. 


I have read all John Goldingay’s preparatory notes for his 4 lectures on Jeremiah next week in LST’s Summer Conference and I have read all 52 chapters of Jeremiah. I will be attending the online Conference every morning next week from Monday to Thursday starting at 5 am each day. 

Last night’s Bible study went very well as we covered Acts 6 and 7. This was followed by another session of the singing of older hymns and songs by Philip which went very well too. 


Today is Philip’s 42nd birthday. We went out together for a nice walk together at Green Pastures to celebrate. We walked 4,5 km.


The Youth online conference is in its 4th night tonight and continues in real blessing. They are having about 90 taking part every night. At the other end of the age scale the seniors had another online session this morning which they love. 


I am glad to report that our pastor Nemias at Flores is better from the Covid virus as are his wife and son. His mother Nevinha is improving too. PTL! Thanks for all your prayers and support. 


I have read all John Goldingay’s preparatory notes for his 4 lectures on Jeremiah next week in LST’s Summer Conference and I have read all 52 chapters of Jeremiah. I will be attending the online Conference every morning next week from Monday to Thursday starting at 5 am each day. 

Last night’s Bible study went very well as we covered Acts 6 and 7. This was followed by another session of the singing of older hymns and songs by Philip which went very well too. 


Today is Philip’s 42nd birthday. We went out together for a nice walk together at Green Pastures to celebrate. We walked 4,5 km.


The Youth online conference is in its 4th night tonight and continues in real blessing. They are having about 90 taking part every night. At the other end of the age scale the seniors had another online session this morning which they love. 


I am glad to report that our pastor Nemias at Flores is better from the Covid virus as are his wife and son. His mother Nevinha is improving too. PTL! Thanks for all your prayers and support. 


I have read all John Goldingay’s preparatory notes for his 4 lectures on Jeremiah next week in LST’s Summer Conference and I have read all 52 chapters of Jeremiah. I will be attending the online Conference every morning next week from Monday to Thursday starting at 5 am each day. 

The first night of the 5-night EAB/ACEV Youth Conference had 90 taking part on Tuesday Evening and was a great blessing to all. The message by a psychologist was on the dangers of pornography in times of lockdown. Tonight will be dealing with the topic of domestic violence and male chauvinism. 


Last night the Patos Men’s Fellowship also met online with 17 men taking part. Their Bible meditation brought by one of the men was in Acts 1. There was also an online ‘knees to the ground’ prayer meeting. 


I walked another two and a half miles this morning at Green Pastures. I enrolled in the London School of Theology’s ‘Summer School’ when I got back. It will run from Monday to Thursday next week and is free online. John Goldingay will be the main speaker on Jeremiah. It will start at 9 am UK time so will be 5 am for me!

The first night of the 5-night EAB/ACEV Youth Conference had 90 taking part on Tuesday Evening and was a great blessing to all. The message by a psychologist was on the dangers of pornography in times of lockdown. Tonight will be dealing with the topic of domestic violence and male chauvinism. 


Last night the Patos Men’s Fellowship also met online with 17 men taking part. Their Bible meditation brought by one of the men was in Acts 1. There was also an online ‘knees to the ground’ prayer meeting. 


I walked another two and a half miles this morning at Green Pastures. I enrolled in the London School of Theology’s ‘Summer School’ when I got back. It will run from Monday to Thursday next week and is free online. John Goldingay will be the main speaker on Jeremiah. It will start at 9 am UK time so will be 5 am for me!

Our Patos church has fully adapted to the new pandemic reality and in fact we are doing more now and reaching more people that even before. 


To start with – every day we have the EAB/ACEV 5 minute slot posted at Midday and remaining on ACEV Patos’s Facebook page for 24 hours. This is done by church members who record 5 minute Bible reflections or testimonies and send them to me for checking. I then pass them onto our internet man who posts them. It is a lovely way to involve the church at large. So far 15 are taking part and it’s being a blessing.


Tonight being Tuesday we have two online groups in action. First we have the “knees to the ground” prayer meeting from 7 pm onwards. Then we have the Men’s Fellowship which kicks off at 7.30 pm. Both these meetings use Google Meet and overlap time wise.


Then the Patos youth start a Conference tonight at 7.30 pm going through each evening to Saturday and open to the youth from all our churches. They will have different speakers and singers every evening. 


I have prepared my sermon for Sunday and I have now been working on the Bible study for this Thursday on Acts 6 and 7. I do my Bible studies in relaxed read and chat along style. i.e. I read a bit and then chat about it. Hence my diagnosis is that chapter 6 will be good but chapter 7 will be stodgy. I value your prayers. 

Our Patos church has fully adapted to the new pandemic reality and in fact we are doing more now and reaching more people that even before. 


To start with – every day we have the EAB/ACEV 5 minute slot posted at Midday and remaining on ACEV Patos’s Facebook page for 24 hours. This is done by church members who record 5 minute Bible reflections or testimonies and send them to me for checking. I then pass them onto our internet man who posts them. It is a lovely way to involve the church at large. So far 15 are taking part and it’s being a blessing.


Tonight being Tuesday we have two online groups in action. First we have the “knees to the ground” prayer meeting from 7 pm onwards. Then we have the Men’s Fellowship which kicks off at 7.30 pm. Both these meetings use Google Meet and overlap time wise.


Then the Patos youth start a Conference tonight at 7.30 pm going through each evening to Saturday and open to the youth from all our churches. They will have different speakers and singers every evening. 


I have prepared my sermon for Sunday and I have now been working on the Bible study for this Thursday on Acts 6 and 7. I do my Bible studies in relaxed read and chat along style. i.e. I read a bit and then chat about it. Hence my diagnosis is that chapter 6 will be good but chapter 7 will be stodgy. I value your prayers. 

I walked two and a half miles at Green Pastures this morning. I also completed my sermon preparation for next Sunday’s communion service. I will preach on Philippians 1:12-26. 


A fireman from the church released an Armadillo at Green Pastures this afternoon. Apparently a workmate had captured it to eat but our brother talked him out of it. 


It was nice to receive photos today from a man at the ex-slave community of Fonseca whose market garden is going well producing lettuce, caliandra and cabbage. 

I walked two and a half miles at Green Pastures this morning. I also completed my sermon preparation for next Sunday’s communion service. I will preach on Philippians 1:12-26. 


A fireman from the church released an Armadillo at Green Pastures this afternoon. Apparently a workmate had captured it to eat but our brother talked him out of it. 


It was nice to receive photos today from a man at the ex-slave community of Fonseca whose market garden is going well producing lettuce, caliandra and cabbage. 

Thank you for all your prayers and support. Last night’s service was excellent. I preached on Philippians 1:8-11 and remarked how interesting and edifying it is to read and study Paul’s and Jesus’ prayers. I challenged the churches to try writing their prayers sometimes as Paul did. We can pray silently, speaking or writing. They are all ways of communicating with God. 


It is fascinating how this pandemic has many of our churches tuning in to our main Sunday service. Our churches at Imaculada, São Mamede, Juru, Flores, Princesa Isabel, Teixeira and Caroá were all tuned in last night as well as Patos of course. Philip and Louisa do the praise and worship and I lead and preach. We use StreamYard online.

Otávio Oliveira was an elder in our first church at Princesa Isabel (we have two churches in the town) and he went down ill with Covid 19 a few weeks ago. He went to be with the Lord yesterday and is being buried this morning. Please pray for the family and church. Otávio was the father of two of our pastors: Robério and Betinho. 

Otávio Oliveira was an elder in our first church at Princesa Isabel (we have two churches in the town) and he went down ill with Covid 19 a few weeks ago. He went to be with the Lord yesterday and is being buried this morning. Please pray for the family and church. Otávio was the father of two of our pastors: Robério and Betinho. 

Otávio Oliveira was an elder in our first church at Princesa Isabel (we have two churches in the town) and he went down ill with Covid 19 a few weeks ago. He went to be with the Lord yesterday and is being buried this morning. Please pray for the family and church. Otávio was the father of two of our pastors: Robério and Betinho. 

I am taking the opportunity which lockdown gives me to write the history of ACEV/EAB in Portuguese for the first time. I have covered 1938 to 1983 to date. It is a massive job but so important now and for future generations. The challenge is that the work has grown a lot so in the more recent decades there are more churches to write about. 


Yesterday, as always on Friday, we had an online meeting for the seniors which went very well. Tonight the youth have their meeting. Next week the youth will have a special online conference with invited speakers from Rio de Janeiro and Campina Grande. It truly is wonderful. 

I have just given the Bible study via Google Meet. We covered the last part of Acts 4 and all of Acts 5. It went well despite it not being the easiest of passages to do. 


Philip is now singing all the old hymns for the church folk. He did one two and half hour session last week and it was very popular so he’s doing another one tonight. 

I walked for about 3 miles on Saturday and again yesterday. It’s good to keep fit! I have prepared my sermon for next Sunday on Paul’s prayer in Philippians 1 and prepared for the next Bible Study. 


Sunday’s service went well as did the Men’s Fellowship last night. Tonight is the Women’s Fellowship and tomorrow I give the Bible Study on Acts 5 as we travel through the book of Acts. This will be followed by a ‘Virtual Serenade’ when Philip attends requests for all the old hymns. We have totally adapted to the ‘new normal’ and find the church even more alive and active than in the ‘old normal’!


The Covid virus situation here is increasingly bad with over 50,000 deaths and numbers rising. The problem is when you have a president who refuses to take it seriously, and just like in the USA gives a terrible example. The country has no leadership. It’s not surprising that the USA and Brazil are in first and second place in the Covid statistics with Brazil apparently striving to take first ‘worse’ place! May God have mercy on us and help us!  Whereas in the UK you are easing lockdown as numbers fall, here they are easing restrictions whilst numbers rise. This has got to be wrong! Please pray.


Please pray for us and all our family. Please pray too for some from our churches that have got the virus. 

I walked for about 3 miles on Saturday and again yesterday. It’s good to keep fit! I have prepared my sermon for next Sunday on Paul’s prayer in Philippians 1 and prepared for the next Bible Study. 


Sunday’s service went well as did the Men’s Fellowship last night. Tonight is the Women’s Fellowship and tomorrow I give the Bible Study on Acts 5 as we travel through the book of Acts. This will be followed by a ‘Virtual Serenade’ when Philip attends requests for all the old hymns. We have totally adapted to the ‘new normal’ and find the church even more alive and active than in the ‘old normal’!


The Covid virus situation here is increasingly bad with over 50,000 deaths and numbers rising. The problem is when you have a president who refuses to take it seriously, and just like in the USA gives a terrible example. The country has no leadership. It’s not surprising that the USA and Brazil are in first and second place in the Covid statistics with Brazil apparently striving to take first ‘worse’ place! May God have mercy on us and help us!  Whereas in the UK you are easing lockdown as numbers fall, here they are easing restrictions whilst numbers rise. This has got to be wrong! Please pray.


Please pray for us and all our family. Please pray too for some from our churches that have got the virus. 

I conducted the mid-week Bible Study last night online via Google Meet and 28 took part. It went very well covering Acts 3 and most of chapter 4. 


I am working on the history of the churches and projects here in Portuguese for a Brazilian audience. I am approaching the place I already wrote about and published in English. I have now covered from 1938 to 1975 but it is not simply a case of translating from English to Portuguese what I had previously written  because Brazilian readers will be interested in different details and will not be interested in many details already published in the English version. I plan to press on in Portuguese beyond the first 40 years. 

I conducted the mid-week Bible Study last night online via Google Meet and 28 took part. It went very well covering Acts 3 and most of chapter 4. 


I am working on the history of the churches and projects here in Portuguese for a Brazilian audience. I am approaching the place I already wrote about and published in English. I have now covered from 1938 to 1975 but it is not simply a case of translating from English to Portuguese what I had previously written  because Brazilian readers will be interested in different details and will not be interested in many details already published in the English version. I plan to press on in Portuguese beyond the first 40 years. 

Sunday’s service went great and now includes a sign-language interpreter much to the joy of the deaf fellowship folk. It was the second week we used StreamYard which is excellent and means we broadcast live both on Facebook and YouTube. 


I walked yesterday at Green Pastures and have been preparing for the Bible study this Thursday. I am prepared to cover Acts 3 and 4, but I am not sure how much I will cover as when it is in ad lib style it is difficult to predict. People may ask questions etc. There’s a lot of good stuff to discuss in these two chapters.


Our elder at the Princesa Isabel church remains seriously ill in ICU with Covid-19. Our leader at São Vicente do Seridó remains in need of prayer for extreme anxiety. Please pray. 

Sunday’s service went great and now includes a sign-language interpreter much to the joy of the deaf fellowship folk. It was the second week we used StreamYard which is excellent and means we broadcast live both on Facebook and YouTube. 


I walked yesterday at Green Pastures and have been preparing for the Bible study this Thursday. I am prepared to cover Acts 3 and 4, but I am not sure how much I will cover as when it is in ad lib style it is difficult to predict. People may ask questions etc. There’s a lot of good stuff to discuss in these two chapters.


Our elder at the Princesa Isabel church remains seriously ill in ICU with Covid-19. Our leader at São Vicente do Seridó remains in need of prayer for extreme anxiety. Please pray. 

Last night’s Bible study was very good with 28 taking part via Google Meet. We covered Acts 2:14-47. The study flowed really nicely for over an hour. 


We continue to value your prayers for our church elder at Princesa Isabel Otávio who is in intensive care with the new Coronavirus. We also ask you to pray for Nenem who leads the São Vicente do Seridó church as she has severe anxiety. 


I have prepared my message for this Sunday and will preach on 1 John 2:1-10 with the title: “Walk as Jesus Walked!” I have been working this afternoon on some project guidelines we are drawing up which cover child safety in our projects + environment guidelines etc. The work has involved project leaders and the senior leadership team of 11 people – 9 men and 2 women. 


Yesterday I walked 5,7 km at Green Pastures. It’s wonderful that we have this secluded spot to exercise in amidst these difficult times. The highlight of the walk was to see for a long time a large middle aged Iguana. It’s a prehistoric looking Lizard about 70 cm long. 

Last night’s Bible study was very good with 28 taking part via Google Meet. We covered Acts 2:14-47. The study flowed really nicely for over an hour. 


We continue to value your prayers for our church elder at Princesa Isabel Otávio who is in intensive care with the new Coronavirus. We also ask you to pray for Nenem who leads the São Vicente do Seridó church as she has severe anxiety. 


I have prepared my message for this Sunday and will preach on 1 John 2:1-10 with the title: “Walk as Jesus Walked!” I have been working this afternoon on some project guidelines we are drawing up which cover child safety in our projects + environment guidelines etc. The work has involved project leaders and the senior leadership team of 11 people – 9 men and 2 women. 


Yesterday I walked 5,7 km at Green Pastures. It’s wonderful that we have this secluded spot to exercise in amidst these difficult times. The highlight of the walk was to see for a long time a large middle aged Iguana. It’s a prehistoric looking Lizard about 70 cm long. 

Last night’s Bible study was very good with 28 taking part via Google Meet. We covered Acts 2:14-47. The study flowed really nicely for over an hour. 


We continue to value your prayers for our church elder at Princesa Isabel Otávio who is in intensive care with the new Coronavirus. We also ask you to pray for Nenem who leads the São Vicente do Seridó church as she has severe anxiety. 


I have prepared my message for this Sunday and will preach on 1 John 2:1-10 with the title: “Walk as Jesus Walked!” I have been working this afternoon on some project guidelines we are drawing up which cover child safety in our projects + environment guidelines etc. The work has involved project leaders and the senior leadership team of 11 people – 9 men and 2 women. 


Yesterday I walked 5,7 km at Green Pastures. It’s wonderful that we have this secluded spot to exercise in amidst these difficult times. The highlight of the walk was to see for a long time a large middle aged Iguana. It’s a prehistoric looking Lizard about 70 cm long. 

EAB has a new group which unites in prayer, as many evenings as possible, for half and hour, to pray for us and EAB in general. The group’s coordinator is Joy Levermore at levermorejoy@gmail.com

If you would like to join the group please email Joy. We would love this. We have a prayer warriors group on Messenger with up to date prayer requests.


Before I came to Brazil I used to go to such a meeting at the Tuckers house in Southampton. Then there was another group led by Mary Dyer. So it’s great to have another EAB prayer group organized. Please link up with it if you can. 

EAB has a new group which unites in prayer, as many evenings as possible, for half and hour, to pray for us and EAB in general. The group’s coordinator is Joy Levermore at levermorejoy@gmail.com

If you would like to join the group please email Joy. We would love this. We have a prayer warriors group on Messenger with up to date prayer requests.


Before I came to Brazil I used to go to such a meeting at the Tuckers house in Southampton. Then there was another group led by Mary Dyer. So it’s great to have another EAB prayer group organized. Please link up with it if you can. 

There were 18 in our Men’s Fellowship meeting tonight and I gave a short Bible study for the group on 2 Timothy 2:15. It was held online via Google Meet. It was a really blessed meeting. PTL!

There were 18 in our Men’s Fellowship meeting tonight and I gave a short Bible study for the group on 2 Timothy 2:15. It was held online via Google Meet. It was a really blessed meeting. PTL!

This Sunday’s service was even better than previous weeks because we stitched to using a software called StreamYard  which worked great. Whereas previously I did my part and then Philip did his, with StreamYard Philip and I were able to broadcast simultaneously. The service was wonderful! It was a real blessing to everyone including us. 


We conducted communion on line and we we focused on the theme of caring for creation in the overall service. It was a real blessing. 


Tonight the men’s fellowship will be online as well, joining the long list of internet activities the church already carries out. 


We value your prayers for us and the ongoing work here. 

This Sunday’s service was even better than previous weeks because we stitched to using a software called StreamYard  which worked great. Whereas previously I did my part and then Philip did his, with StreamYard Philip and I were able to broadcast simultaneously. The service was wonderful! It was a real blessing to everyone including us. 


We conducted communion on line and we we focused on the theme of caring for creation in the overall service. It was a real blessing. 


Tonight the men’s fellowship will be online as well, joining the long list of internet activities the church already carries out. 


We value your prayers for us and the ongoing work here. 

This Sunday’s service was even better than previous weeks because we stitched to using a software called StreamYard  which worked great. Whereas previously I did my part and then Philip did his, with StreamYard Philip and I were able to broadcast simultaneously. The service was wonderful! It was a real blessing to everyone including us. 


We conducted communion on line and we we focused on the theme of caring for creation in the overall service. It was a real blessing. 


Tonight the men’s fellowship will be online as well, joining the long list of internet activities the church already carries out. 


We value your prayers for us and the ongoing work here. 

Our Patos church is getting more and more into the online gear. We now have 4 slots on a Sunday, 1 on a Tuesday, another on a Thursday and another on a Saturday. We have one daily slot too at midday. Tuesday night’s online prayer meeting saw 20 taking part for 2 hours! Last night’s online Bible study, via Google Meet, saw me give the study for 41 people including pastors from our João Pessoa – Boa Esperança, Matureia, Teixeira and Juazeirinho churches as well as Patos foll. The Sunday main service has lots of the members from our Imaculada church and Curral Velho church joining us. PTL!


I have done 2 good Green Pastures walks this week. On Monday I walked for 4.3 km and yesterday I walked 3 km. These walks are both good for me physically as well as refreshing me spiritually and psychologically. There is nothing like walking in the “garden” of God’s creation and nature. It blesses me inside and out!


Next week is International Environment Week, as the International Day for the Environment will be on Friday, June 5th. I will be taking part in two nationwide events organized by renewourworld.net which is an international Christian Movement to mobilize Christians environmentally and increase awareness of the need for action by the church. I will be taking part live in online events on Monday (1st) and Saturday (6th). Please pray!

Our Patos church is getting more and more into the online gear. We now have 4 slots on a Sunday, 1 on a Tuesday, another on a Thursday and another on a Saturday. We have one daily slot too at midday. Tuesday night’s online prayer meeting saw 20 taking part for 2 hours! Last night’s online Bible study, via Google Meet, saw me give the study for 41 people including pastors from our João Pessoa – Boa Esperança, Matureia, Teixeira and Juazeirinho churches as well as Patos foll. The Sunday main service has lots of the members from our Imaculada church and Curral Velho church joining us. PTL!


I have done 2 good Green Pastures walks this week. On Monday I walked for 4.3 km and yesterday I walked 3 km. These walks are both good for me physically as well as refreshing me spiritually and psychologically. There is nothing like walking in the “garden” of God’s creation and nature. It blesses me inside and out!


Next week is International Environment Week, as the International Day for the Environment will be on Friday, June 5th. I will be taking part in two nationwide events organized by renewourworld.net which is an international Christian Movement to mobilize Christians environmentally and increase awareness of the need for action by the church. I will be taking part live in online events on Monday (1st) and Saturday (6th). Please pray!

I hope you can get to have a look at last night’s church broadcast which even has a bit of English in it for the non-Portuguese speakers! https://www.facebook.com/acevpatos/videos/3859744854096533/

The service was lovely and thousands of people tuned in and were blessed. PTL!

I am happy to announce that today I will be back on our live transmission together with Liz, Philip & Louisa. I will be speaking on 1 Peter 2:4-5 and then on John 21:1-6 a bit later. Please pray for us. The transmission is from our Patos church Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/acevpatos/

The transmission starts at 6:30 pm our time (10:30 pm BST) but you can always watch the recording tomorrow if you fall asleep!

I am happy to announce that today I will be back on our live transmission together with Liz, Philip & Louisa. I will be speaking on 1 Peter 2:4-5 and then on John 21:1-6 a bit later. Please pray for us. The transmission is from our Patos church Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/acevpatos/

The transmission starts at 6:30 pm our time (10:30 pm BST) but you can always watch the recording tomorrow if you fall asleep!