Caetano

Caetano, you may remember, is the father of the baby Moses who I dedicated recently. Well we learnt yesterday that he is worse with Covid and that both his wife and dentist Rebeca and their 9 month old son Moses have Covid. Caetano has lost 25% of his lung capacity and is very depressed. I talked to him yesterday, prayed for him and tried to encourage him. Please pray for Caetano, Rebeca and baby Moses.

This is the time of year when it is warmest in the UK and coolest here. We hear that it is quite warm in the UK today. Here our lowest temperature in the night was 21 degrees centigrade, at the moment it is 30 degrees and our maximum today will be 33 degrees.

Yesterday Liz and I went to Green Pastures to do a general check up on the water pumping system from 2 deep bore wells to all the dormitories, toilets etc. This year the rains were very poor so we have no water in the lake or river and the wide-mouth wells are totally dry. Thus it is very important to keep the deep bore wells fully operational through submersible electric pumps, as everything depends on them until next year for both Green Pastures wild life and events, plus all our neighbouring families who depend on us for water too. We did the check up yesterday together with Francisco, who runs Green Pastures on a day to day basis for us, and his wife Leca. They are a lovely couple and are doing a much better job of caring for Green Pastures than the previous people did. Whilst there yesterday we saw that 3 bathroom doors need to be replaced to old bathrooms that weren't previously overhauled. We will replace the old warped and shabby doors with aluminium ones. Our hope and prayer is for the pandemic to be sufficiently improved here by the time of next May so that we can hold our annual field conference at Green Pastures in person. All our leaders are praying for this to happen. 

This Friday night we will be holding a training evening at the Patos church for our technical team responsible for our online transmissions. We have contracted an expert to upgrade our team's knowledge and capabilities. I will be taking part in this training too.

Last night's Men's Fellowship meeting went well. Nine men took part in the online meeting.