Sunday was blessed with a lovely communion service as always here on the first Sunday of the month. I preached on John 9/10 in my 33rd sermon in the John's Gospel series. After the service I had quite a difficult incident with a deaf couple who wanted me to do a sort of façade wedding cerimony so that they can live together without actually being legally married! They want this because the man is on government benefit for his deafness which he fears losing if he gets married. I declined to get involved other than to help them check with a lawyer regarding if in fact he would lose his benefit. Both families were there to pressurise me! The things we get involved in!
On Monday we travelled to João Pessoa for Liz to see her eye specialist where she got top marks for her sight after the cataract surgery. On the Tuesday Liz had a check up with another doctor. We headed back to Patos yesterday morning.
On the way back Tarcísio phoned from Green Pastures to say the local authorities had illegally set fire to the rubbish dump not far from Green Pastures. I got Lynn's husband Hutan to go and photograph and film it so as to be able to register a formal complaint with proof of what occured.
When I got back to Patos I posted a film on Facebook and made a formal complaint. I have since received profuse apologies from the Mayor and Secretary for the Environment as they knew they were in trouble as what they did is totally illegal. They promised me never to do it again and promised to make efforts too for rubbish not to be allowed to come with the wind to Green Pastures. I decided to give the authorities one more chance or else I will take legal action.
Tonight is the Bible study and tomorrow and Saturday are training sessions for our anti-drugs teams. Please pray. It was lovely to see last night how a young married couple have got back together as a result of the "Drug-Free" project and the help the husband battling with getting free from drugs received.
It was also great to see out young pastor in Teixeira lead a neighbour to the church to the Lord yesterday. PTL!
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