Yesterday saw Brazil pass the 4,000 mark in daily Covid deaths for the first time. Sadly Brazil reached a total of 4,211 Covid deaths in 24 hours and two people we knew were part of this total. What is so sad is that our President continues to look the other way, does nothing about it but tells the people "to stop whining" and "get back to work"! He says he'll never support a lockdown so the death toll just rises non-stop. The first time Brazil reached 2,000 deaths in a day was less than a month ago, so you can see from that how out of control Covid is in Brazil. Total deaths now have passed the 337,000 mark. I am sorry to keep on about such a sad topic but this is the reality we are living here. Please continue to pray.
On a brighter note I can tell you that our Pastor Umbirajara in João Pessoa is steadily improving from Covid. He is still in hospital but if he keeps improving today he could be sent home tomorrow. I talked to his son now who told me this and thanks everyone for their prayers.
Our prayer request for rain also persists as sadly the rains have stopped altogether here and we have a dry stream and dry lake at Green Pastures. Liz and I went walking there yesterday and it is sad to see a superficial green coating on the trees but everything is dying underneath. April is our last main month for rain so we are hoping and praying for things to change here.
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