Yesterday (Sunday) was a blessed day. The business meeting in the morning lasted 2 hours and went off smoothly and unitedly. The church re-elected 2 deaconesses for another 3 year mandate (Deborah Maria & Josinete), re-elected another veteran deaconess as an honorary life-long deaconess (Beatriz), elected a new deaconess (Márcia) and a new deacon (Ricardo). Philip was also elected by the church to go before the annual Field Conference at Matureia next month as a candidate for probationary pastor status. A couple of ministries also had their leaders changed.
In the evening we held the monthly communion service and this was really blessed. Despite many away ill, with the absolute epidemic of viruses, the church was still completely full. PTL! I preached my 4th sermon on Paul's 2nd Missionary journey and that went well covering Acts 17:1-15. We're off to Athens next!
Last night we had no rain again in Patos but we had another quarter of an inch (6 mm) at Green Pastures. PTL! This takes us up to over 23 inches of rain at the farm this rainy season and with more rain possible this week things are really looking up. The Patos reservoirs have taken in quite a lot of water too. We rejoice and thank everyone for their prayers.
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