Leadership

We will be holding a Patos church leadership meeting tomorrow evening and value your prayers for it. One or two problems have cropped up and we will be meeting to discuss and pray about them.

Sunday night's service went very well indeed. I preached on 'A Life with Purpose'. The praise and worship group was particularly blessed when they reintroduced a very old hymn which was especially good.

I am glad to say that our 20 year old psychology student Keylla has recovered from Covid. Thank you for praying. Sadly, however, her uncle died with the disease this week. The Covid death rate in Brazil is rising again somewhat and has reached an average of 557 a day. It would seem that Liz and I may be able to receive a booster dose of Covid vaccine next month. This will be especially good as we received the Chinese Coronavac vaccine which is low in efficiency and not recognized in the UK. If we were to receive the Jansen single dose vaccine, which is recognized in the UK, it would be particularly good. We shall see what happens and value your prayers.

Please also pray for our daughter Lynn who has endometriosis and will have to face extensive surgery which will include a hysterectomy. Please also pray for Fatima, the wife of Pastor Nemias at Flores in Pernambuco State, who is also far from well.

I have been having discussions with our project team leaders Marah Danielle (social worker) and Lindon Carlos (pastor) about different aspects of quality control in our projects which we always want to keep improving for the glory of God.

President Bolsonaro is speaking to the United Nations in the USA right now. Yesterday he and his group of ministers were refused entry to a restaurant because the president has not been vaccinated against Covid! He ended up eating pizza outside and I saw the photo! The president gives a terrible example living in a fantasy world of denial concerning the virus. I know people in Patos who devotedly follow his lead and are refusing to be vaccinated.