Juazeirinho

I had some long excellent discussions yesterday with Pastor Leandro of our Juazeirinho church. He is one of our younger pastors and he is doing very well. He wanted to know what to do about a young mother who has been converted and who wants to be baptized, but she is not legally married to her husband who has not come to the Lord. I suggested that the church should offer to pay the legal costs of about 60 pounds for them to become legally married and that is what he is going to do. For poor people it is a lot of money to pay out so, as in this case, couples end up just living together without getting married. I also had discussions about the legal documents of our church at Juazeirinho and of the land given for a church building at a church plant at Antonio Ferreira community.

I also talked to Pastor Maésio who leads the Teixeira church and who is very encouraged by the amount of people going to the weekly service at their church plant at Sítio Sabonete 1 community.

The Covid daily death rate in Brazil thankfully continues to drop and is now down to 628, which is 84% lower than the peak.

16 -year-old mother Andressa is expected to be sent home with her baby daughter today our social worker tells us. Both mother and baby are really doing well. Thank you for your prayers.