Caroá

Yesterday and today we have been travelling with our UK visitor Amy Gough and we have just got back at 4:30 pm. Yesterday we went up the mountains to Teixeira and showed Amy our church there. We then went on to visit our Matureia school and church and we were given a nice snack by Pastor Renilson and his wife Getiane. We then went by our churches at Juru and Tavares before showing Amy our original EAB/ACEV church which Bert Mundy built at Princesa Isabel in 1943. We then drove on to Caroá where we had a lovely evening meal of free-range chickens, rice, pumpkin and sweet potato.

In the evening we took part in a lovely service with a church packed out on a Monday night. Amy brought a word interpreted by Liz, the deputy mayoress brought a word of greeting and I preached the Gospel. The service was led by Pastor Valdemy.

This morning we visited the Caroa wells and the incipient market garden there. After this we headed to Manaira where we visited Pastor Francinaldo and his church and school followed by a visit to the little shop run by 85-year-old and father of 15 José Paulino, which started over 30 years ago, fruit of the EAB income generation project. 

On the way home we stopped at our Imaculada church, school and playground to show Amy. When on our way down the mountain we stopped for a drink of Guaraná and diet Coke at the viewing point of 'Pedra do Tendó' where Amy went climbing to the top of the big rock for a better view. 

Having descended the mountain we witnessed a dead man alongside the road with police taking photographs of him. Police say that the 44-year-old father of 2, who had been riding a bike, probably had suffered a heart attack as he had no signs of injury on his body.

Whilst we were away Patos received 60 mm of rain (2 and a half inches) but it didn't rain a drop at Green Pastures.  Now it is raining again in Patos so we hope and pray that it will reach Green Pastures too.