A fantastic service!

Last night's service commemorating EAB/ACEV's 79th anniversary was absolutely out of this world. The play was the main message of the night and had so many people weeping (including some of the actors) that we almost had to mop the floor at the end! It is an amazing true story from our history and in a nutshell goes like this:

Zé Paulino was EAB/ACEV's first evangelist in the 1940s. Prior to his conversion he had an affair with a married woman called Rosa dos Gatos. They eventually planned and executed her husband's murder but got converted and transformed by God's grace through the ministry of Bert Mundy in the Princesa Isabel jail. When they had served their sentence they became members of the EAB/ACEV church doing a great job spreading the Gospel. 

Frank Dyer, Ivy and Liz took on the leadership of the church with their help in 1950, but later Evangelist Zé Paulino became ill and died. However on his death bed he even won a man for Christ with his last words. The play ends with his death and then entrance into God's eternal presence. "Where sin abounds, grace much more abounds"!

From last night's play from the left: Frank & Ivy Dyer with Liz in her arms; Evangelist Zé Paulino & Rosa dos Gatos; Daisy & Bert Mundy with Graham. (Note that men in those days always wore white suits)