Friday, May 30, 2008

Group in the Outback and Missions Conference


A lot is going on these days. First off - thanks for all the prayers for Dan Cook and family. He is now at home and the doctor has cleared them to travel on schedule to the States on June 11th. Please continue to pray for a full recovery for Dan. Thanks so much for remembering him these days.

Yesterday a group got here from the States to help out in the Outback. Carlos is mostly hosting them himself. The group has various Brazilians who live in the States along, so translating should be well taken care of. This church sent a group less than a year ago and is back with some of the same ones and new ones. Pray for all the efforts and outreach these days. Pray for the group's safety and health. They will do mostly rural evangelism but will also be in Solidão and Ingazeira as well as Afogados. Pastor Claudio and I will join them for their last two days there.

Meanwhile our missions conference at Koinonia starts tomorrow. We will have a two day conference with three missionary families giving their reports along with a special speaker. Pray that Koinonia will continue to grow in our missionary vision.

If you happen to be reading this on the post day pray for me as I interpret tonight for a British evangelist at an outreach we are expecting a few thousand to show up for. I have been in four of our prisons here in Recife with this evangelist to interpret for him these last few days. We have seen some prisoners receive Christ!

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A Prayer Request for Triunfo


In our recent survey trip with Jorge and Josy (pictured on the right) we saw the possibility of a team forming. Jorge and Josi came back to Recife to pray more about it, but are seriously considering teaming up with Chico and Dalva. We are going to take a trip there along with their local pastor who is a good friend of ours for the church to be involved in the process. We do need your prayer that God's perfect will will be done. Chico has recently reported with joy that a neighbor lady (Rita) who is studying the Bible with them recently gave her life to Christ. They now have Bible studies with three more neighbors.