Wedding

I have long lost count of how many weddings I have conducted over the years but I have never done one online. However a young woman from our Patos church called Brenda is marrying Victor from one of our Campina Grande churches tomorrow on line. At 9 am they go before a judge online and do the legal part and then at 10 am they come to me online to conduct the Christian ceremony. I prepared everything for this yesterday. Philip will also be taking part from the UK as Brenda wants him to take part as Philip was the youth pastor here so there is a nice affinity. Please pray for this online wedding and that God might bless this couple, Victor and Brenda, who will be starting out life together in such turbulent times.

Sunday's service went off beautifully. Sacha led it so well. Much better than the assistant pastor to be honest. I preached focusing on the Mums on Mother's Day and it went very well. I had a lot of positive feedback which is always encouraging. A young woman called Dilma also brought a beautiful poem for the mothers.

Last night Liz and I spent hours revising the entire Patos church register which has details of all members, non-members who regularly attend who are Christians and non-members who regularly attend who are not committed Christians yet. The register is divided into families and has everyone's address, phone number and date of birth. The latter being so that we can congratulate those who had birthdays each week in church. People like this.

Please continue to pray for Neneto from our Curral Velho (Old Cow pen) church. He is the brother of Tica who leads the church there, with her husband Ramos, and he has a serious version of Covid and continues in intensive care at Piancó. He is very ill.