Yesterday was a very dark day in Patos, where we have been living in the interior of northeastern Brazil for the past 49 years. The Covid pandemic is on the rampage here killing many people. Yesterday our County Council Secretary of Health, Segundo Brito, died with Covid at the age of 42. He was a man I knew well having taken part with him in community debates about public health issues in the past. His death has come as a great shock to us all, especially as he died so quickly with the disease. Then too yesterday another man I knew well died with Covid. He was the journalist Fábio Diniz, aged 44, whom I also knew well. Another young mother died yesterday with Covid, aged 35, showing how deaths in this pandemic are killing increasingly younger people. Please pray!
I will be preaching tomorrow on 'Being like Jesus - in Love' from 1 John 4:7-21. I value your prayers. Assistant pastor Rafael will lead the service. The Women's Fellowship in the Patos church is spending today in prayer and fasting. They have organized it so that someone is praying during every hour for 24 hours from midnight to midnight. I feel this is a lovely initiative.
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