Happy New Year!

EAB/ACEV churches are preparing for their late night service to see the New Year in. In Patos I'll be preaching and baptizing 11 + receiving another 2 new members into fellowship. God is good. It's been a good year. Thanks for all your prayers and support. Now it's marching on time into a New Year for God. A Happy New Year to everyone wherever you are!

This morning we received some old Christian friends at Green Pastures we hadn't seen for many years. It was a good hot longish walk round Green Pastures to show them round and chat over many things as we went. With the couple of inches of rain we've had in December things have greened up quite nicely - but of course no rain in the reservoirs yet.

I have worked hard preparing my sermon for tonight this week and there's another one to prepare for Sunday after what will be a very late night tonight. All the family will be round our place after church.

This morning I managed to buy petrol! Things are getting so chaotic in this country and the whole of the State of Paraíba ran out of petrol! Inflation is spiralling upwards dangerously again and on top of the economic instability there is much political turmoil too.