End-of-year party

On Tuesday I went to the men's fellowship's end-of-year party held at the Coreto 2 open-air restaurant where 20 of us ate pizza together, chatted and played a game of Bingo which well-driller Caetano won. At the end we prayed together. Another nice shower of rain fell whilst we were in the restaurant.

Our amazing grandson Arthur has booked flights for another of his international trips in 2025. 23-year-old Arthur is a qualified lawyer and has already visited Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Florianopolis, Brasília, Fernando de Noronha and Goiania in Brazil and made international visits to Wales, Scotland, England (various times), Portugal, USA (Florida, New York and Los Angeles next year), Bahamas, Chile, Italy, Vatican, Greece, France, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Spain and Morocco. Now he is scheduled to visit Japan next year via Peru, Panama and the USA, with the possibility of adding South Korea to the schedule if things calm down there. Congratulations Arthur on your amazing world vision for life and for your solid commitment to Christ in the process.

Yesterday we had hailstones at Green Pastures which fascinated the people because they had never seen them before! It rained 15 mm which was good.

Last night I led a lovely Christmas service at the senior citizens' condominium where there are 40 chalets in which 60+ folk live. It was a blessed evening with a variety of folk from the church telling what Christmas means to them, and Pastor Rafael brought a word from Luke 2. Sacha led the praise with a mixture of carols and regular songs. We gave the residents a little gift each at the end.