Saturday night brought us the sort of rain we were waiting for! Heavy, intense and prolonged. At Green Pastures it rained 2 inches and the river dam overflowed and the lake took in quite a lot of water. PTL! In Patos it rained twice as much and up in the mountains at Teixeira 3 times as much. We rejoice with all this of course. We are now up to a total of 23 and a half inches of rain for this year at Green Pastures with 40 inches being our target. We pray for a few more rains like Saturday's during April because in May the rains always start dwindling.
This Saturday night's evangelism by the youth in the area of town where our school is was different! The door to door evangelism went normally in the afternoon and then the team debated whether to set the sound equipment and chair outdoors or not as it might rain? The base player Mailson, who is a bit of an amateur weather forecaster, decided the matter telling the team they could set up in the street as no way it was going to rain! They had just started putting things into position when... bang... down came torrential rain! So everything was set up inside the school and still a few people came to the indoor service from the borough joining our team and supporters. The Lord blessed and the work was done for God's glory. So rain did not stop pray!
Sunday I preached on John 14 and that went well though there were less in church for fear of more rain which didn't fall.
Yesterday Liz and I had a good meeting with the new pastor who will be inducted at the Teixeira church this Saturday. This morning we are visiting a couple who have just had the arrival of a little baby boy. Tonight we have another meeting... and so it goes on.
On top of all this I have constant meetings with leaders via WhatsApp audios. This is a great help as we are able to have good discussions and sort lots of things out without travelling miles. Hence yesterday I had long discussions with various leaders concerning stage 2 of our Recife church plant which was launched on Sunday. Please pray. I also had discussions regarding difficulties at our Conceição church and further varied discussions with the general leadership team.
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