Poetess

Last night's online service in Patos went off very well despite an early problem with the transmission caused by the web camera jamming. This meant that we could hear Sacha singing but the visual part was frozen. I had to keep talking whilst the problem was fixed by our technical man Ray. It was funny because people were asking me to sing whilst we waited! Anyway once this problem was sorted the service went off fine without a hitch.

I noticed during the service that amongst the many people watching was the Poetess Zenilda Lua who lives at São José dos Campos in the State of São Paulo which is over 1,600 miles away from Patos. She is a lovely Christian lady with whom I have a partnership. I provide a nature photograph from Green Pastures and Zenilda writes a poem to go with it and our work is published from time to time in a Brazilian Christian magazine. So towards the end of the service last night I invited Zenilda to write and say a poem on Easter Sunday which she has agreed to do. This will be a nice change and I am sure it will be a real blessing to hear Zenilda's resurrection poem.

We have had some rain over the weekend at Green Pastures. On Saturday night it rained 30 mm and on Sunday night it rained 14 mm so this takes us up to 294 mm this year. This means we have about 700 mm to go! Please keep praying.

This morning we have helped another extremely poor family who were going hungry at Passagem, which is a village about 20 miles from Patos where we have a little church. The situation was so desperate that we gave them 2 food hampers plus a whole lot of fresh fruit and vegetables.