4 Legs

EAB's 4-Legs Project distributed goats and sheep yesterday in a journey of 720 km. The animals were bought over the past few weeks at Tavares where Pastor Robério is the leader and who is a member of our projects team. Then yesterday he and pastor Lindon Carlos loaded up the pick-up vehicle with the animals and left at first light with first stop at Teixeira which is 30 minutes drive south of Patos. They had a nice time of fellowship with the local pastor there, Maésio and his wife Fia, who took them to the rural area of the County to Sítio Sabonete II where the first families of the day received their animals with much joy. One lady called Maria (nearly all women in Brazil are called Maria!) has recently come to the Lord in this community. Each family benefitted by the project also receives a Bible. 

Next stop was the town of Juazeirinho which is a one hour drive east of Patos. There they met up with our local pastor Leandro who took them to the community of Antonio Ferreira where more animals and Bibles were distributed. In this community a number of people have come to Christ and the Juazeirinho church holds a weekly meeting there. There are plans to even build a little church at this place. Once again as well as the distribution of animals and Bibles there was good fellowship here with pastor Leandro and the local Christians in these out of the way places.

On from here next came São Vicente do Seridó which was another drive of about and hour and a quarter in a north-easterly direction. Here the leader of our church is an excellent woman called Maria das Dores (Mary of the Pains!) although she is known by her nick-name of Neném (Baby - which is a common nick-name here). She took the team to the Boa Vista rural community where once again goats and Bibles were distributed. By this time the animals still on top of the truck needed to be given baths to cool them down.

Finally the team drove on again to Portelo Community in the County of Puxinanã which was about another hour and a half drive south east, and were met at late afternoon by local pastor Sílvio and his wife Silvânia. The team drove on to Campina Grande to sleep.

All our projects are church based and so a day like yesterday, distributing goats, sheep and Bibles, just highlights the wonderful way the Gospel is being spread to villages and towns in north-eastern Brazil. All the indications for people to received goats were made by our local leaders who know the people. 

We thank you for your prayers and for the practical ways you support our projects which demonstrate to the poor the love of God. In the Parable of the Good Samaritan the priest and Levite walked by on the other side of the road, but it was the Samaritan who stopped, cared and paid for the wounded man's needs. EAB, with your help, seeks to live out this parable in the real world of north eastern Brazilian poverty.