Annual Uproar in Patos

The annual St. John's Festival starts today (Tuesday) and runs for six nights till dawn next Monday morning. It is a period of lawlessness in Patos with drugs everywhere, excessive drinking, wild promiscuity and so the sad list goes on. The main attraction in the opening show tonight will start singing after midnight and is called "Wesley Safadão" which could best be translated as something like "Wesley chauvanistic pervert" or "Wesley recklessly immoral". I think that might give you a feel of the spirit of the festival!

In our church we always run a Christian alternative programme so please pray for this. The big Saturday night service will be the biggest night of this programme at which I will be speaking. It will be focused on regional music and choreography showing we as Christians are not opposed to local and regional culture but are against this culture being hijacked and perverted. This service will be shown on our live Facebook stream as will be the Sunday night service.

I have been dealing with a big problem at one of our smaller churches these past few days. It is at the ex-slave community of Barra de Oitis. Please pray for us as we handle a very difficult situation.

Today we have had further scientists at our Green Pastures Nature Reserve - this time to start reseach on Lizards - Iguanas, Giant Tejus and all the smaller varieties. It is wonderful how God is opening up doors to all this and very rewarding for all the hard work we have put in and are putting in to caring for God's earth. The photo below was taken this morning with the scientists.