Dengue Fever

Dengue fever and Chikungunya are raging here in Patos now. Doctors are telling us to use insect repellent as these sicknesses are transmitted by mosquitoes. The hemorrhaging version of Dengue fever can kill. 

Our Saturday night service at Green Pastures with the local farming folk was "rain stopped pray". There is no way that people can get to the meeting in the rain with the roads/tracks turned into quagmires. The Saturday service at Ipueira in the State of Rio Grande do Norte went ahead as the cobblestone streets are no problem in the rain. 

Our 20 year old grandson Arthur is going to Europe in June/July. He will stay a few days in England with Philip and Gylmara in Basingstoke, and a few days more with Jon and Eunice in London. He will also go to Holland, Germany and France. Arthur is such an admirable young man. He has saved up for two and a half years for this.

Liz and I plan to visit Switzerland and the UK in September and October. We plan to start in Switzerland for a family reunion for Liz's brother Sam's 70th birthday (he is now 71 but the pandemic messed up the plans). All 5 brothers and sisters - Sam, Liz, Eunice, Esther and David plan to be there. This will be the first such a reunion since our wedding over 52 years ago! After Switzerland we will spend time in the UK with family and friends. We will also visit some churches whilst there. Please pray for us as we start to plan this trip that it might be a nice relaxed time of refreshing.

On Saturday night it rained another 70 mm (nearly 3 inches) at Green Pastures taking our total up to 1,008 mm (42 inches) for this rainy season. This takes this year into the 'excellent' category for rain! PTL! The heavy Saturday rain knocked part of our fence down which is the least of our worries. We can fix that!

In Sunday night's service I dedicated Arthur Kennedy and preached the whole of Mark 5 covering the healing of a demon-possessed man and of a hemorrhaging woman, as well as the raising of Jairus's 12 year old daughter. It was a very good solid service.