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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.
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 boys playing a game with the clowns
A friend from church came and sang some songs with the children
then she told a Bible Story for the children.
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To end the service the pastor of the mission spoke a few words to the children
A few weeks ago, our family had the opportunity to go with Asas de Socorro (similar to Mission Aviation Fellowship) to help with a ministry and social action trip to an island about 3 hours away from Belem. I will try to high light some of our activities.
It really was not as glamorous at it may sound. We (our family minus Rachel), 6 people stayed in one bedroom of a 4 room house. There was another volunteer in the Living room. While another volunteer took the second bedroom and the kitchen was empty. The home owners slept out back in their shed/storage room.
Joel was involved in the evangelism aspect of the trip. Rebekah and I (Charlotte) helped our pastor’s wife and other volunteers with the children’s ministry. We helped get the materials ready and then went and helped each day with the children. We also had time to get to know the kids. By the time we left after 6 days, everyone knew Abigail and Joshua’s name. Joshua has asked more than once if he could go back and play with his new friends.
Boat Ride across the river
There were 3 dentists that went with us to treat the people. This brought a lot of people to the school where we were working. They set up portable dental chairs in the one room school house.
The room is ready for the patients.
Each day we would gather with the children for a bible story. They also learned some new songs and a bible verse for the week.
Rebekah helping teach the kids a new song.
Each night we had a movie to attract the kids to our gospel presentation. One night Joel put on his clown outfit along with 3 others and they shared about God’s love.
The evangelical clowns
Here are some pictures of Joshua, Abigail and Sarah and Rebekah playing with the kids in the Community. They had a great time. This was the first time I (Charlotte) have had an opportunity to go out and be with the river people that we will be working with. I think I left a little piece of my heart with all these precious children. I wished there was more that I could do for them. Please pray for the community of Algodalzinho.
Joshua and his new friends
A group of girls followed Sarah up into this tree. They would play there for hours.
Abigail and this little girl played so well together. They were so cute holding hands and walking around together.
The final day that we were there, the kids did not have a bible story time and they all gathered at the school building. The older kids played volleyball but we did not have anything to do with the younger children. So Rebekah decided to play games with them. The funny thing was they wanted Rebekah to stand right there next to them and watch them play. For over an hour they all played hop scotch.
Rebekah helping the kids play
We left with mixed emotions. We enjoyed our time there and had fallen in love with the people but we were ready to get home and see Rachel who had stayed at home in order to attend school.
Please pray for this community of Algodoalzinho. There is no evangelical church in this community. Please pray that God would bring a national leader that would be willing to lead the services in this community.
NOTE: If you would like to see more of our pictures from this trip you can see them on our dropshots account http://www.dropshots.com/joelcharlotte ( Aug 31st – Sept 5th)
