Flooding in our State

It must seem ironic, but we are in a state that from time to time experiences draught & flooding - the two extremes.  Usually the flooding is closer to the coast which is our case now.  A pastor from my mentoring group just sent our church a plea to help his home town that was hard hit by these recent floods.  I saw that even CNN headlines featured our state of Pernambuco today.  Here are some pictures Pastor Paulo took the other day.  We are gathering food and clothes from our friends in Recife to help these folks.  Please pray for those suffering great losses.  There have been dozens of deaths and hundreds reported missing.

I've just got to make another post as, like I said, a lot is going on.  We recently added a good group of new members and wanted to show you pictures of most of them.  We had another couple join too who was not pictured and and and a young lady too.  This Sunday we will also baptize 15, so pray for these as well.  Marcy and I have been very tired, but happy :) 

Events and Prayer

We've had lots going on, and need to update you a bit.  We had a great couples' dinner and were especially excited to have Anne's parents go to the event with her.  Mike was already back in the States.  We had other visitors - and even a couple had a renewing of their vows.  They are a couple who are friends of our church and  haven't missed one of our events for couples since we started this new "Ankorados" ministry.