Counselling

Last night Liz and I had a counselling session for an hour with a young man from our church in Patos which went very well indeed. We held it on our front veranda as our usual place in our back garden wasn't possible as a fine rain was falling.

We had another half an inch (12 mm) of rain yesterday at Green Pastures so that takes us almost up to 6 inches (142 mm) from the 40 inches (960 mm) needed between now and May to get us through to 2022. Please pray.

Liz and I went to Green Pastures yesterday, as we do at least twice a week to check things over and have a good walk. We are working on making the entrance to Green Pastures cleaner and prettier and this is going very well with worker Francisco who is much better than the old worker Tarcísio who left a few months back. Francisco is very willing and most capable and his wife Leca does whatever cleaning we ask her to so the change has worked out very well indeed. However towards the end of our walk yesterday the ground was a bit slippery with the rains and Liz slipped in the mud, twisted her foot where she broke her ankle a few years back, and fell banging her face on the ground. Liz had the first nose bleed of her life as a result and is limping today. She is alright but would value your prayers.

We have another pastor down with Covid-19. This time it is Pastor José Vieira who leads our 2nd church in João Pessoa in the borough of Cidade Verde. He is in the early stages of it as yet (day 6) so we shall see how it develops. José Vieira is about 50 years of age. Please do pray for him together with a man of about 40 also in João Pessoa called Manassés who has Covid-19 very bad. He used to be a part of the Patos church some years ago. Manassés is in intensive care and has been intubated to be on a ventilator.

This week our projects team marked the location for our next toilet/shower unit and the circular two and a half meter diameter foundations have been dug. The building materials will be arriving there next week. We also had discussions with our projects team on where the next goats will be going to in the 4-Legs Project. A goat now costs us 86 pounds but within this cost is including de-worming medicine, a sack of mineral salt and a can of protective medicinal spray for any wound that the animal may get as it goes into the bush.