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.