Vaccine

This morning Liz and I had our first dose of Covid vaccine with the second dose due on the 20th of April. The vaccine is the Chinese Coronovac which is one of the two vaccines being used in Brazil at the moment. The Coronovac is made in partnership with the Brazilian organization Butantan. We had finally received the word that the days for our age group's vaccination at our local public health office would be today and tomorrow so our youngest daughter Sacha went to the office early this morning and got us tickets numbers 57 and 58. In view of the fact that the vaccination system was not well organized like in the UK we asked to be vaccinated in our jeep when our time came so as to avoid the crowd at the health office. All worked to plan and we are very happy to have finally got through round one of our vaccinations.

Last night we had a good amount of rain in parts of Patos (an average of about 40 mm) but sadly it didn't rain at all at Green Pastures. We were very disappointed. Please keep praying for rain.

Yesterday I spent many hours preparing a sermon on 'the fear of the Lord' from Proverbs 9:10 - "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom".

I am glad to report that Deaconess Samara is improving after her sad suicide attempt. Our local pastor Betinho and his wife Maciene are doing a great job giving her spiritual support at this critical recovery time. Please do keep praying for Samara.