Green Pastures hosted a Fun & Fellowship Day for the youth yesterday, with 70 young people from our Patos, São Mamede, Juazeirinho and Teixeira churches. 10 of them formed an advanced party which prepared food on the Friday night and the main group started arriving on Saturday morning at 5.30 am. The youth held meetings in the morning and afternoon and these were interspersed with swimming, table tennis, volley ball and nature walks. At night the youth took the weekly service for farming folk with the young Bible College student Murilo preaching the Gospel. It was a lovely day.
On Saturday afternoon we had an excellent online meeting of the senior leadership team which was mainly to discuss who will replace the current pastor Ângelo at our Soledade church as from January 1st. Pastor Ângelo and his wife are both suffering from depression problems and are going to have a good sabatical. Their replacement at Soledade may be Pastor José Renildo and his wife Tânia. This is the couple who went to Portugal but have now returned. They will be visiting Soledade this coming week and taking part in a baptism there. Please pray for this situation.
We have bought 6 leather footballs and sent 2 a piece to the 'Sport in Action' projects at Juru, Flores and Barra de Oitis. This Bible and Ball project gets kids off the streets practicing healthy organized sport within a Christian setting.
The Women's Fellowship held a special meeting this week which focused on preventing breast cancer. They invited a visiting speaker and 50 women went to the meeting which was very good.
A large American Barn Owl is hunting smaller birds at night around the Green Pastures meeting hall. The birds like to roost in the trees around the hall and the Owl comes and picks them off.
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