Please pray for Joel this week as he will be going with an American team to a community about a 12 hours boat ride from here.  He will be acting as a translator for part of the team.  Tonight (Saturday) they will be traveling by boat to the community of Breves.  Then later this week they will go to Portel.  They will be returning either early Friday morning or early Saturday morning.

Please pray for me, Charlotte, and kids.  Please pray that nothing breaks while Joel is gone and that everyone stays healthy.

 

Even though we returned to the same island, the community of Iririteua was much different from the community of Algodoalzinho. As the leader to our trip pointed out one morning in devotion time, from the beginning of this trip there were many differences.  In the  trip  to Algodoalzinho  we had a welcoming committee  to welcome us to the community.  This time we arrived relatively unnoticed.   The community of Algodoalzinho had never had a group to come in and provide dental care and have evangelical outreach.

Over all we had a good week.  Rachel and Rebekah were able to help as dental assistance with the two dentist that came in.  They worked hard from 8 to 5 (and later most days).  The hardest part was being on their feet all day.  But they both really enjoyed the opportunity.  They also helped two days with the children’s program along with Charlotte.  Joel was able to be involved with door to door evangalism and ministry.  Each evening we had a time to get together with the community.  The first two night were a time of testimony and bible stories.  The third  night we showed the film Fireproof in Portuguese.  The fourth and final night we had a worship service at the small church.

The most interesting event of the week was on the night that we were going to show the film.  The Catholic church had a service planned that evening and they cancelled it in order to let all the people attend the movie.  We were pleasingly surprised at having over 60 people to view the film.

Rachel learning the names of all the dental insturments (in Portuguese)

We taught them to sing "Deep & Wide" in English. We also sang the same song in Portuguese "Grande, Largo"

Rebekah (in the center) is helping our pastor's wife lead the singing.

Joel (Pipoca) giving gifts out to the children

We stayed in the house of Manuel and Marcina. They were great host!

The members of the church were so welcoming, friendly and helpful.  We look forward to having other opportunities to work in this community in the future.  Please pray for this community of believers that they would be able to reach the lost and searching in this remote community.

 

 

 

How the time has flown!  We had a fun time celebrating Abigail’s 2nd Birthday with friends.  We had several other American families over to help celebrate. She is growing up so quickly.  She has a large vocabulary (part English, part Portuguese).

Here are a few pictures of her taken on her birthday.

Abigail watching the "other" little monkeys!

Abigail with her brother and sisters.

Since Rachel was out of  school and Joshua was only having a play day at school (our homeschool is always closed on the kids birthdays) we decided to all go and spend the day together to celebrate Abigail’s birthday. We had a very fun time!!

Next Monday, the 19th, we (our whole family along with about 5 others) will be returning to the island that we worked at in August, but we will be going to a different community.  This will be a social action trip with dentists to treat the people for free, but we will also be doing evangelism and outreach for the mission of our church that is there.  There are a small group of believers in this community, unlike the other trip.  There has been work  of this kind many times to this community but there are still a lot of people to reach.

Please pray for Joel as he will be sharing his testimony  and reaching out to the people of this community.  Please pray for Rachel, Rebekah and Charlotte as we will be working with the children. Please pray that we will all stay healthy and safe during this trip.

Last Monday was Children’s day here in Brazil.Our pastor asked Joel if he would go on Sunday to one of our mission churches about 2-2 1/2 miles from Belem and entertain the kids with his clown act. Another member of our church went and shared a Bible story with the kids. At the end of the service we had a quick snack and then each of the children were given a bag of candy and a small present.

All the girls in the church playing a  game with the clowns

All the girls in the church playing a game with the clowns

All the boys playing a game with the clowns

All the boys playing a game with the clowns

A friend from church came and sang some songs with the children

A friend from church came and sang some songs with the children

then she told a Bible Story for the children.

then she told a Bible Story for the children.

     To end the service the pastor of the mission spoke a few words to the children

To end the service the pastor of the mission spoke a few words to the children

Categories