Yesterday we held our annual Leadership Conference online with all our leaders taking part. The brilliant speaker was pastor Antonio Carlos Costa from Rio de Janeiro. He is my friend who organizes all the protests on Copacabana beach which you may have seen on the TV news, as what he does has worldwide repercussions. Yesterday he spoke to us from Matthew 5:14-16 on 'Integral Mission'. It was fantastic!
Tomorrow Liz and I will be travelling to the village of Belém in Tavares County to officially inaugurate EAB/ACEV's latest market garden project run by Fernando and Sandra. Liz will be doing the Bible reading and prayers and I will be preaching the Gospel at the thanksgiving service. The trip will involve a 5 hour round trip so we very much value your prayers for travelling mercies and protection from the pandemic.
On Saturday our senior leadership team will meet online to discuss what to do about our Soledade church where the current pastor is resigning at the end of the year. Please pray.
I have been asked to add photographs of the wildlife I see at Green Pastures to our updates, so I will try to remember to do this. It is so important for Christians to encourage care for God's creation. We are praying for COP 26.
I have read a brilliant academic article from the Christian sociologist Paul Freston on 'Bolsonaro, populism & evangelicals in Latin America.' Paul is an anglo-brazilian like myself, who is in Canada at the moment where he taught for 12 years at a university.
President Bolsonaro's video in which he outrageously links Covid vaccine to AIDS has been removed by the owners of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube as fake. Bolsonaro is utterly irresponsible.
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