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.

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!

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.

Strong Families - Strong Churches

Thought I'd post a couple pictures of our couple's small group. This group from Koinonia asked us to help them build better relationships. The group has leaders who organize, set up when and where, so that Marcy and I can mentor them. We do ask you to pray for these dear families - that Christ would be honored more and more in their homes. This meeting happened to be at the Smith home. It does fill up our tiny living room with laughter and fun as well as serious issues.

Family ministering at Event

Here are a few pics of our family ministering at the Children's Day in Ingazeira. We were glad Mike and Anne could go too. They both love children and enjoy helping out in the Children's ministry at Koinonia too. Marcy did a lot of the organizing on site for the event to run smoothly. Carlos insisted on that and Dinalda wanted to care for the kitchen for our whole group.

Another Picture of Children's Day

Ingazeira's Children's Day

We had a great trip with 32 people from Koinonia that went to Ingazeira to do the Children's Day program. Again we had over 300 Children with lots of enthusiam going on. Our team did a very good job and the Gospel presentation was clear. Lots of Moms were there also. Then at night we had a special service for the adults and young people. We were pleased for a very good turn out and a good number that have never been in a Gospel preaching service. Thanks so much for your prayers.