Green Pastures

I led the Green Pastures church service last night and it was lovely to see local farming folk like Dodora and Marileide taking part in the service. Sister Magaly from Patos preached the Gospel very well. Fábio, who has lost 18 kilos in weight, led the praise and worship. We took the chance to ship out to Green Pastures, in the Kombi, eleven 20 litre bottles of mineral water for the Men's Conference next weekend.

Our 89-year-old elder Pedro Guedes remains in hospital with Covid and is holding his own. He is breathing with just a little oxygen and seems quite comfortable. João Paulo, who fell off his horse a week ago, remains in intensive care with bad head injuries. He went on his horse to separate 2 steers which were fighting and the fight spooked his horse. The horse ran out of control into a concrete post which smashed into João Paulo's head and knocked him off the horse. Please pray for these men.

This morning saw a lovely service of child evangelism in Patos called the 'Water Melon Festival'. The children loved singing praise to God and hearing an evangelistic message built around a water melon.

Our projects' team has held two meetings at Macambira dos Lúcios village. The first meeting was with the community leaders discussing their request for a well to be dug and equipped there. The second was a larger meeting with members of the community. We plan to make this well before the end of the year. The area is in great need of water. Please pray that we will successfully hit water with the well.

4 chicken runs are now being built. 2 are at Barra de Oitis village, 1 at Patuscada and the other at Tamanduá. The families to be benefitted by this project are overjoyed as their diet will be improved and their income too.