EAB holds its 79th Annual Celebration

EAB's Annual celebration was held this Saturday (11th Nov.) and Chairman of the Board Roy Dyer was the speaker. Others who contributed to the programme were Marian Rashleigh, Jean Medcraft-North and the Lighthouse Community Church worship group. 50 people gathered to praise God for another year of victory and blessing. Thanks to all who supported this event. 

EAB's 79th Annual Celebration

Please be at EAB's 79th Annual Celebration this Saturday (Nov. 11th) to be held at the Lighthouse Community Church, Hardley, Southampton, SO45 3NZ. There will be a fellowship tea at 6pm and the Celebration will start at 7pm. 

Green Pastures Service

Saturday night's service at Green Pastures went very well. 42 present in a rural area on a Saturday night is not bad! We had all the people doing their bits in the service and then I preached the Gospel. It was a refreshing night blessed of the Lord.

On Sunday I took the Communion Service in Patos which also went very well. During the week we had done quite a lot of counselling with folk from the church.

On this Monday (6th) we took off for João Pessoa again. Another 4 to 4.5 hour drive. This was for Liz to have her second cataract surgery on Tuesday morning. This went off fine and we travelled back to Patos yesterday (Wednesday). 

Also during this week I wrote our annual report for the EAB Board of trustees, in time for this weekend's Board Meeting and EAB celebration. We also made a video message for the service. We hope you can be there!

Counselling & Community Meetings

My plan for yesterday was to concentrate on preparing my message for the Green Pastures church on Saturday and for the Patos church this Sunday. However things often don't work according to plan.

First of all a community leader asked for a meeting in my office to discuss the state of the Patos River Espinharas which is polluted and in a terrible state. I have long been campaigning about this.

Then came a series of eventually three people from the church for counselling, which took up most of the morning and afternoon. Eventually I got to working on my message for Saturday and press on today with this and my Sunday message.

However this afternoon I will drive Liz back to the coast (4 to 4.5 hours) to see her cataract surgeon first thing in the morning. Thankfully Liz is doing very well and I am sure her doctor will be thrilled with what she sees as Liz's operated eye looks perfect - and after all I put the drop in every three hours so have monitored it closely since surgery last Thursday. I hope the surgeon will set the date to do the other eye tomorrow. It will be nice for Liz to get it all done. We hope to travel back to Patos tomorrow latish. Thanks for your prayers.

Masses of Murders

Statistics just out show that there were 61,619 murders in Brazil in 2016 maintaining a rate of 7 per hour! The worst area is Brazil's northeast! Your prayers are always valued.

Blessed Weekend

Saturday ministering at Teixeira went very well and yesterday in Patos too. Both services were excellent. Last night the Patos church was very full and especially moving was the deaf fellowship's participation in the services together with the interpreters. The dance group also brought a very impactive presentation. I preached on the 500 years of the Reformation.

Tomorrow we go back to João Pessoa for a check-up on Liz's eye operation. Praise God she is fine.

On Saturday I will be preaching at the Green Pastures church and will be back preaching at the Communion service in Patos on the Sunday.

Greetings from Green Pastures