Thank you for your prayers!

Thank you for your prayers. Just an update, my Grandpa is out of the hospital and back in his own home, but continues to recover, pray the medicine and rest will put him back to his usual self.

Two prayer requests.

Please be in prayer for our families. Yesterday Natinha's Aunt passed away because of cancer. Also yesterday I found out that my Grandfather was hospitalized Sunday for a viral infection accompanied with a high fever he was hoping to be released today. Thank you for your prayers.

Ministry Budgets Needing Financed

I wanted to point out two areas in need of financial support. The first being the Brazil Church Planting buget. This budget is used to pay salaries for current and future pastors, plant new churches, build places of worship and schools, and help with building projects in already existing ministry locations when extra funds are available. With the decline of the value of the dollar, more funds are needed than ever before to continue financing the ministries here in Brazil. The goal is for our churches to be self supporting as fast as possible, but they have not reached this point yet. Please consider contributing financially to this ministry. You may click on the link at the end of this blog.

The other ministry opportunity is the new vehicle fund for us. Our current car is on its last leg (maybe that should be tire). What should have been replaced last year was not as I did not know to request this in the budget, so a "new" car is necessary as I am having to replace parts on this one too often. I am including a picture of what we are thinking of buying as some have asked me about this. Obviously we will not be buying a brand new car as in this picture but something semi-new.

PALIO ADVENTURE

You may click here to be directed to the page where you can make a donation to these and other Cross Cultural Ministry Funds, or you can send a check for financial support to the following address. Please make checks payable to Churches of God General Conference or CGGC. The ministry number that you may place in the memo portion of the check for Brazil Church Planting is CC2804 and for the new vehicle fund it is CC2828.

CGGC
700 E. Melrose Ave.
Findlay, OH 45840

March Updates!

What has been happening lately? Well at the end of February Pastor Ernesto and I travelled over to Bahia again and visited with the church there on a very happy but necessary visit. We enjoyed meeting with church leaders and worshipping with them in their weekday service.

The first of March we had a talent show at the church in Palmas and many participated showing various talents. Some of the talents presented were cooking, singing, dancing, refabricating a broken and old sewing machine, drawing, and coloring among others. Some pictures appear below showing this evening.


The challenge to cover the roof with a plaster ceiling began at the beginning of this year here in Palmas. We are hoping to have it in place before the summer months (dry season) come again. Dust destroys many things (especially electronic) as well as leaves the inside of the church completely dirty. A long red ribbon is running the length of the church wall. When this ribbon reaches the other end we are at 100% and the work on the ceiling will start. A small house shaped offering box is the place that people deposite their offerings. We are currently at 60% of the funds needed to put the ceiling in place. This has been a great challenge to the local church to give, especially since the church ministry is to typically low income families.

We received a team of 7 from Indiana last week. They came to film the differet areas of ministry here in Brazil. I made the comment that they are like lightning as they were only here in Palmas for two days. They were however able to film some different things and interview people from the local church as well.

Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us and for those who have been supporting us financially as well.