Green Pastures Service

At the moment I am preparing to take the service at our Green Pastures Church later today. We look to the Lord for his blessing. Yesterday at Green Pastures I heard a Roadside Hawk and a Rufous-bellied Thrush. The latter has a beautiful song which I can imagine joining praise to God one day in the new earth together with the angels and the redeemed of the Lord! We saw yesterday that the painters are now in at the Green Pastures School and Block A dormitories. It's starting to look much better. We also saw that Francisco has planted 19 of the 24 seedlings of Mango, Guava, Orange and Lemon trees.

Yesterday evening we spent a lovely time with our daughter Sacha celebrating her 35th birthday and eating a mini-barbecue in the moonlight.

The Brazilian national Minister of Education, Milton Ribeiro, is a Presbyterian evangelical Christian and his remarks about special needs children are embarrassing and outrageous. He has referred to them as being a "nuisance" because they "get in the way"! Such insensitive comments have generated outrage from opponents of President Bolsonaro and his government.

The authorities here are starting to talk about a third dose of Covid vaccine to hopefully be applied later this year so as to improve prevention of the disease. Please pray for this to happen. Daily deaths to Covid are down to 800 which is a big improvement on the 4,000 peak a few months back. A brother called José Roberto who is a Christian from a non-EAB church refused to be vaccinated because he deemed it to be a "lack of faith in God". He is now intubated in intensive care fighting for his life. Please pray for him.

I went to an ophthalmologist this week as my right eye was swollen a lot. He prescribed an antibiotic and an antiallergic drug and already my eye is back to normal.

I have been having a lot of discussions with our projects team about the next round of wells that we will be drilling. Also Pastor Valdemy of Caroá took part in the discussions as the poor rainfall this year is already affecting his region as it is ours. Please pray for us to hit water when we drill the next 4 wells we will be drilling.