The church activities during Easter week continued (from where I last left off) on Wednesday with a service in the Patos church with the 'Desert Flower' Project ladies and families. This was not an easy service as the atmosphere was heavy owing to the murder of one of the participant's sons. Nevertheless the Gospel of hope in the living Christ was preached.
On the Friday we held our traditional 'Good Friday Pit Stop' at the traffic lights by our church - wishing those who pass a Happy Easter, giving them an appropriate Easter Gospel tract and inviting them to the Sunday services. 31 people took part. The same group spent time in prayer together inside the church after the Pit Stop.
Sunday morning saw our usual church breakfast at 8am to which a large crowd gathered. Breakfast was followed by a time of worship and a short word which I brought to the church. Then on Sunday night we had our fantastic resurrection celebration with the church packed out and in a wonderful spirit. Philip preached extremely well and no less than 12 people made decisions to follow Christ! PTL! During the service Philip also baptized 2 people, there was a moving song of worship done by the deaf, there was a choreography and an Easter play. Quite a programme - and all transmitted live on the Internet with thousands of watchers!
We thus praise God for a lovely blessed and fruitful Easter.
Now it's back to a routine week (no Easter Monday bank holiday in Brazil) with an annual check up by the Eye Doctor today (I reckon he's called Isaiah!) followed by minor surgery to remove a few blibs and blobs from my skin this afternoon. Nothing sinister, but I am told it's better to remove them.
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