Rain

On Thursday night it rained 19 mm (almost an inch) and on Friday night it rained 30 mm (just over an inch) at Green Pastures, taking this rainy season to a total of 278 mm (11.5 inches) including December and January. This is a good start as long as we get some really heavy nights of rain between February and April to accumulate water. The lake at Green Pastures is still bone dry because the rains are coming in dribs and drabs and are not torrential. In order to fill the lake we need the sort of rain that causes flash flooding. Please pray with us for rain. Our eldest daughter Deborah and her family spent the day at Green Pastures on Thursday.

Our granddaughter Alice has been given the all clear after having had Covid. Gratefully her symptoms were mild and she is now fine. There are another 11 still with Covid in our Patos church. There were few in the Bible study on Thursday night but a good number watched online. The latest church family to be affected by Covid is that of Denis and his son Ayrton. In the last 24 hours Brazil had 257,239 new cases of Covid plus 779 deaths.

I had prepared a sermon for tonight's service at Green Pastures but the service has been cancelled owing to so much sickness in our midst. However tomorrow's service in Patos will go ahead with reduced numbers and I will preach on Mark 3.