Intensive Care

Our senior elder Pedro Guedes has been taken into intensive care with Covid. His lungs are 75% affected by viral pneumonia but he is holding his own. His wife Deaconess Beatriz also has Covid but she is at home with her lungs only 30% affected. At EAB's Patos school 2 children have Covid as do their parents. A cleaner from the school also has Covid. Your prayers are valued.

We had a good meeting yesterday with the headteacher of EAB's Patos School discussing the return to in-person lessons as from the beginning of November. This will also mean the return of monthly services at the school on the south side of Patos where we are seeking to plant a second church in Patos.

Considering the negative impact of the pandemic we have re-commenced our income generation project to help the poor find a way out of having become unemployed. For example: a barber lost his job as a result of Covid so we are helping him set up a barber shop in his front room buying scissors, razors, shampoo etc. up to the cost of 100 pounds and the man will support his family in this way. If anyone would like to donate this amount we will help the jobless get on their feet again for the glory of God.

Last night it rained 44 mm at Princesa Isabel which is a 2 hour drive west of here. It is very rare to get rain in October so we are very pleased for people there. Here in Patos we just had a one minute shower.

Tomorrow the Campina Grande Men's Conference starts at Green Pastures running from the 22nd to the 24th with about 60 men present. We pray that God will bless them abundantly.

I worked on sermon preparation yesterday with one for Patos and one for the inauguration of the latest Market Garden Project at Belém to where we will be travelling next week. A technical visit has just been made to Belém by our agricultural specialist who gave advice and further guidelines to Fernando and Sandra who run it.

A mother has contacted us because she wants her son to go to the rehabilitation centre for drug addicts with which we work in partnership. Her son is coming out of jail soon and she hopes he will go straight to the rehab centre. Please pray.

I saw a Solitary Black Cacique bird on Tuesday at Green Pastures. The bird is black the size of a UK Blackbird and has a bright solid white beak. We also registered a number of times this week at Green Pastures a Wild Neotropical Spotted Cat (Leopardus emiliae). This small wild cat is the only endemic Brazilian wild cat and is on the endangered species red list.