Dear Friends in Christ,
Yes, here it is March, and we haven't written
you a letter yet this year. We have just spent a whole month fighting a
virus - it didn't affect our health - but it may have affected our sanity.
It definitely messed up our computer and for that reason we have finally
decided to go ahead and send a letter to all of you by surface mail even
though we had been sending almost three-fourths of our letters by email.
The Lord blessed our preparations for a Christmas program at our church in
December, and the children did a good job of presenting the various scenes
of the Christmas story while the choir sang. AND we were thankful to have
some first-time visitors.
In January we had a "Special Saturday for Kids". Our teachers worked really
hard and prepared for 40 kids - twice as many as we normally have in Sunday
School. The Lord rewarded their efforts and brought 59 kids and several have
visited Sunday School in the last few weeks.
In February we had a mini youth camp here at our acreage for 10 young people
from our church (including some visitors) and 10 from the Boa Vista church
in Curitiba. Several of these young people had never been to youth camp
before and 5 of them accepted Christ as their Savior during the camp.
Alberto and Sueli, the couple in our church who are studying and preparing
for ministry, did a great job directing the camp. Our speaker was Thomas
Gilmer, a young missionary who manages a Christian BBN radio station here in
our area. He and his wife are members of the Boa Vista church and are in
charge of the youth department there. Our son, Brian, and his wife, Adriana,
helped with all the hard work.
Please pray for us as we prepare for an important meeting on March 27th of
the members of the "Association for Helping Churches" . We MUST make some
important changes in methods and do some belt-tightening, as the world
economic crises has greatly reduced donations, and is beginning to affect
our capacity to supply loans to all the churches who need them.
We are thankful for your prayers and faithful support for our ministry here
in Brazil. We pray that God will bless all of your efforts in these
difficult and uncertain times.
Yours missionaries to Brazil,
