Rural evangelism

Rural evangelism has been resumed in the County of Flores in Pernambuco State by Pastor Nemias (Nehemiah) and his wife Fátima. They have loudspeakers on the top of their car to allow them to conduct short open-air services in farming communities. They feel that the pandemic has improved enough so as to permit such open-air services in this way.

I had a good and long online meeting yesterday with the EAB Action School leaders of our Princesa Isabel and Patos schools. It was very good. 

Our projects team has been visiting market garden projects at Patuscada and Quebra Joelhos (break knees) Communities yesterday. The agricultural expert was with the team to give tips and advice. The team also visited Barra de Oitis to see how the building of the new toilet/shower unit there is going. They were pleased to see the work has advanced a lot since their last visit. I imagine it will be finished next week.

This week I prepared a sermon for tomorrow night's service at Green Pastures. We value your prayers for the weekly service with the farming folk in that region at which I will be preaching.

I finished reading a short 100-page book this week on spirituality, which was written by a Brazilian friend of mine who lives at Fortaleza. In the first part of the book Carlos Queiroz does a critique of Roman Catholic, Prosperity theology and other shallow evangelical spiritualities. In the second part he emphasizes that grace, love, humility, faith and justice are the essential elements of true evangelical spirituality.