Bible College

One of the most encouraging things at this time is the number of Bible College students that we have from the EAB/ACEV churches. It is so encouraging to see the large number of students that we have studying at our Bible College in Campina Grande, or at Bible Colleges on the coast in João Pessoa, or at the on-line Colleges of FTSA and ISBL. So you can imagine how extra thrilled I was when this week our granddaughter Louisa, aged 21, enrolled in the FTSA 3-year theology degree course. She is coming to the end, by December, of her degree in law, so she sat the FTSA entrance exam and scored 97%. Not bad! 😉 Louisa starts her theology degree on July 1st. Please pray for her and all the other Bible College students we have.

I have done another radio interview. This happens quite often to me. Journalists phone me and ask me to do interviews on a variety of subjects. This time I was interviewed about the church and about how we are coping being back to exclusively online services again. It was a good opportunity for the Gospel.

Our first family doctor Olavo died this week aged 90. He was a lovely man who saw me through typhoid many moons ago and who operated on Liz when she was 13. Also our ex-town councillor friend Juracy Dantas died with Covid. 

Our daughter-in-law Gylmara is in hospital in the UK with a suspected appendicitis. They have now ruled out appendicitis after tests and a scan.

We have now been nearly a month without rain so our rainy season has been and gone. With a total of 492 mm (20.5 inches) so far in 2021 it means we only received about half of what was needed for a good year. The last quarter of 2021 will be tough.