Trip to the UK

We leave for Europe tomorrow and value your prayers. How good it is to be going in good health as opposed to our last trip 3 years ago when I was far from well. We will leave Patos in the morning, have lunch in Campina Grande, and then drive to Recife airport where our 7-and-a-half-hour flight to Lisbon leaves at 10:15 pm. We will then change planes for a 2-and-three-quarter-hour flight to London Heathrow arriving there at terminal 2 at 3:35 pm on Thursday to be met by our son Philip, his wife Gylmara, their sons Lucas and Luis, and Liz's sister Eunice and her husband Jonathan. After having tea and coffee together we will drive 40 minutes to the town of Basingstoke where Philip and family live and where we will be staying. Basingstoke is a nice town in the County of Hampshire with a population of 178,000.

Our address in the UK will be 34 Britten Road, Basingstoke, RG22 4HP. Our UK telephone number will be 07762 846695. To contact us by WhatsApp my number remains the same as 0055 83 98852 2745 and Liz's number is identical apart from the last number which is 6.

I led the service on Sunday night in Patos and co-pastor Rafael preached on Isaiah 1:18-20. This will be the last service I'll lead in Patos for about 3 months. It was a good service with a lovely spirit of praise and worship.

Brazilian football club Santos (current team of Neymar and ex-team of Pelé) lost 6 x 0 at the weekend at home to Vasco da Gama. Neymar wept at the end and the manager was sacked!

Yesterday I finished the summary of another book of the Bible. This was the 11th book (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1st & 2nd Samuel, 1st Kings) covering just over a quarter of the Bible (26.4%) and just over a third of the old testament (33.6%). I have summarized 313 chapters of the Bible's 1,189 chapters. If I can keep this pace up I should be able to complete a summary of the whole Bible by 2028 when I intend to publish the summary of the Bible in both English and Portuguese. I value your prayers for this project which is my way of introducing people to the Bible.