Adolescents

I have a real burden on my heart for the adolescents in the Patos church and have been looking for ways to care for them better. We view adolescents as from 11 to 16 years old. I asked my young assistant pastor Rafael to focus more on them together with his girlfriend Rayla, but thus far that has not come to much. I have also asked our youngest daughter Sacha to reach out to them and this Friday she is having round to her house 19 adolescents including her own 2 daughters. I am very happy about this. I think they are going to have a fun night of singing, Bible quizzes and ice cream!

I am very pleased that the 'Life Squad' is going to return to action in the Patos men's prison. Please pray for this new opportunity to preach the Gospel every other Saturday at 3 pm (6 pm UK time). May God transform many lives through this ministry!

We have just received the sad news from Fonseca slave descendant community of the death of a little baby. The mother was a participant in our Desert Flower project there. The baby is now being brought to Patos for the post mortem examination. Please pray for this family. 

Please also pray for deacon Nelson at our Imaculada church up in the mountains. He had a stroke last night and is now in the Patos General Hospital.

Please also pray for the launch of a new EAB Action School at Barra de Oitis this month. We pray that God will raise up some sponsors at 20 pounds a month to make this project viable. We are finding adolescents at 11 years of age who can't read or write in the village and we must do something about this sad plight.

Liz and I continue to have no Covid symptoms despite us having had someone in our home who tested positive the following day. We will get tested tomorrow anyway. In the past 24 hours in Brazil 177,027 people tested positive and there were 1,189 Covid deaths.