Liz and I had an excellent Google Meet online meeting for 1 hour and 20 minutes yesterday with Pastor Wostenes and his wife Gleydice. They are our best friends in Brazil. Wostenes is vice-chairman of ACEV. We had a long discussion about the way forward concerning the EAB/ACEV Soledade church, and as a result of this Wostenes will hold a meeting with the church members a week today. It is so encouraging to feel the love that this couple has for the work of God, and they will be key in moving forward at Soledade in the coming months. We also discussed some issues linked to another pastor called Davi.
Sunday night's service went well although the young assistant pastor, who preached on Psalm 90, was very depressing as he told everyone so many times that they are going to die! I will talk to him and give him some guidance. It was good to see a new bass player called Ricardinho taking part with the praise and worship. Ricardinho is having lessons and is developing well. This coming Sunday our daughter Sacha will be both leading the worship and preaching.
I will be preaching the Gospel this Thursday, and Liz will be doing the Bible reading, at the inauguration and thanksgiving service at Barra de Oitis village. We will be officially inaugurating market gardens, chicken runs and toilet/shower units in this desperately poor community.
Please pray for our daughter Lynn who will be operated on in João Pessoa on November 22nd. She has endometriosis and will be having a hysterectomy plus any other surgery necessary. We pray that it will just be a straight forward hysterectomy. We will be looking after Lynn's 6-year-old Amanda whilst her Mum is in hospital.
Our automatic Bushnell trail camera at Green Pastures (we have 2, but 1 is not working) is registering a lot of Sharp-shinned Hawks. These are a species not normally seen a lot in our area.
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