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Liz and I visited sister Socorro Help who is another of our seniors on Wednesday afternoon. She is known as Socorro Help as Socorro means help! She was thrilled with our visit. We could see that it did her a world of good. We sat out in her front garden for the visit. We hadn't seen her since March 2020. We chatted about everything under the sun and we sang some hymns for her at her request, shared the Word of God and prayed with her.

We went on from there to wish Vasti a happy birthday. She is a woman from our church in her fifties who faithfully cares for her invalid mother Maria Prata who is in her 80s. She was also most appreciative for our visit. We will go back to visit her mother next week. Now that the intensity of the covid crisis has eased we are doing all we can to get to visiting all the flock that we can, to encourage them in these difficult days for both physical and mental health. We take all possible precautions on our visits.

Please pray for Sandra who is the wife of our pastor Gersé in Princesa Isabel. She has tested positive for Covid but has light symptoms so far. They have 2 teenage sons and are all in quarantine. 

Liz had her booster injection (Pfizer) against Covid yesterday. She had it before me at her arthritis doctor's request. I should have my booster jab on October 20th which will be 6 months after my second Chinese Coronavac vaccine. 

Liz is proof reading my 29 chapters of mission history from 1938 to 2018 which we hope to publish in Portuguese this year. I am at present writing the introduction.

Yesterday afternoon I took part in the UK Justice Conference which was mainly organized by Tearfund. The speaker was the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff who spoke on the Climate Crisis and inequality. It was an interesting and challenging seminar. Boff spoke in Spanish with English subtitles. One quote from the seminar stuck in my mind about the current climate crisis: "We need to hear the cry of the poor. We need to hear the cry of the earth. We need to hear the cry of God (from the cross)."