Our Patos Care Centre runs a dental clinic for the poor, a food bank and works with the deaf and seniors. At the moment the Care Centre is undergoing a rebuilding modernization. The Care Centre is being reshaped and left with adequate pillars so as to in the future have an upper floor. The walls and pillars have been built and this coming week the new roof and ceiling are to be put in place which will eventually be the floor of the future upper floor. The revamped Care Centre will have a modern kitchen to prepare food for the soup runs and a coffee bar to enhance church fellowship and evangelism. The multipurpose Care Centre will also be used for children's work.
This Care Centre modernization project is being made possible thanks to a generous designated donation from Liz's brother Sam and his wife Gerti in Switzerland in the honour of Sam and Liz's mother Ivy Dyer. Hence the Care Centre will now be in memory of Katriona M. Graham (the original purchase) and EAB late Missionary Ivy A. Dyer. Tributes to these two women will be on the walls of the revamped Care Centre.
On Friday night we held a little service at the farmstead of Sérgio and Aparecida. There were 18 people present. On Saturday night I led the service at Green Pastures and Bible College student Murilo preached from Galatians 6:11-18. We had a swarm of flying beetles in the meeting hall and a large fat toad came into the hall to gobble them up. I felt a bit sorry for the speaker as it was a bit distracting with the toad jumping all over the place and consuming beetles with the help of his long tongue!
There was also a service last night outside our school in Patos and at Ipueira. At the end of the school service there were 7 decisions for Christ of which one was of the sponsored child Heloisa. PTL! We will now be holding a weekly service every Wednesday at the school.
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