The Tuesday men's fellowship meeting was cancelled because one of its participants' Fabio's father (Buita) died that morning. His father had been ill for four and a half years so it was a happy release from his suffering.
Yesterday morning I conducted the funeral service of 66-year-old Buita. Sacha and Rogerio did the praise and Liz and Pastor Rafael also spoke. Everything went off smoothly. When the service ended we walked over the road to the committal in the cemetery and as Buita had been an ambulance driver the road was blocked off by ambulances with their sirens sounding and their lights flashing. Then at the entrance to the cemetery there was a guard of honour with lines of men from the ambulance brigade in uniforms. It was very moving.
I have prepared my sermons for this Sunday in João Pessoa - Boa Esperança (19th anniversary), and for the following Saturday at Juru (40th anniversary). The pastor of the first church is Manoel Oliveira Filho and of the second is Esequias (Ezekiel!) de Oliveira.
There has been a terrible murder this week in Patos of a beautiful little 6-year-old girl called Aylla. She was shot and killed in cold blood as she played with a 17-year-old boy in front of their house. The boy was also shot and is in hospital in intensive care. What the motive was for the shootings is not yet known, but I have heard that arrests have just been made.
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