Saturday, November 22, 2008

Ingazeira school games held on our property



It's hard to believe that we could serve the local school with our space as we don't have a lot to offer, but it did happen. Our space was better than the shcool's so Carlos let them use it for their soccer and team handball games this month. It was a week of activities and there would be up to 400 people at a time in and out during the day. We are going to move ahead on covering the sports area as a multi-purpose building there as well. With the sale of the farm we should be able to get that project rolling.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Sports Ministry at Koinonia



Tomorrow our sports ministry team is hosting a soccer tournament as an outreach event. I am posting picutres of this group's recent volley-ball tournament. Pray for these young people as they seek to be a blessing to other young people and show the love of Christ through their characters. Also pray for Koinonia as we are starting a fund-raising campaign to cover our sports quad and close in and air-condition the auditorium. Our people are being very creative in their ideas to help raise these funds. The closing in of our auditorium is becoming a need as we have outside noises that bother our services and we are sure our services can be heard by neighbors who are mostly gracious, but may not always want a "free message" or worship music coming in their windows... Thanks for praying!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Model Farm Sold


Recently we had to make a difficult decision. It was to sell the model farm. Unfortunately we did not have funds to develop it as we felt it should and we don't have the human resources to do it justice either. We did have peace about selling it as Carlos is still ministering to the people in the rural communities in that area. Pray we will have wisdom in our next strategic steps for the work in the Ingazeira region.