Busy Week

As usual it's been a busy week. I had my periodical eye test on Monday and ordered a reserve pair of glasses as one pair disintegrated whilst I was in England. 

We've handled quite a few church problems this week - that is people with all sorts of problems. These things seem to come in waves in church work. One person is not walking straight and giving us a lot of headaches. Please pray.

Then there have been various issues to sort out with the leadership at general level but we thank God for a good team. 

I had a good meeting with pastor Luis Carlos, the deaf pastor. He is such a lovely brother. We had good discussions about this year's deaf conference which brings in the deaf from all over the State of Paraíba and will be held at Green Pastures this year. 

We had building problems at the Patos school as the rains brought a bit of the ceiling down but that has been fixed. We had a problem with a cracked wall at the church projects centre but that too has been repaired.

The Bible study last night had 25 present which is an improvement for mid week. We've been working in preparation for the Carnival Camp too.

Please keep praying for rain for our region. We've had just over 8½ inches to date in 2019 so have started well but we need this to keep going over the next 3 months to reach somewhere around the 40 inches mark in the rainy season of the first 5 months of the year. 

Please pray too for our girls' English school which is their means of income and which gives work to others from the church. Please pray for Philip too as he takes some important decisions regarding his work, life and ministry.