Blessed are the Meek

I will be off to the Patos church is an hour's time to preach my third sermon in my series on the Beatitudes. This time it is verse 5: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth". Many are away as January is holiday month (like August is in the UK) but we pray God will bless. Sacha will be leading the praise as Philip is one of those away!

Day 2 of Outreach

Day 2 of the 10-day Evangelistic Outreach at Ibiara was dedicated to the training in evangelism of the team, by young Pastor Rafael who is an excellent evangelist, prior to the opening street service at night. Please pray

Gleydice Belchior preached the Gospel in the opening street service in the Ibiara town square this Saturday night, on Day 2 of our annual evangelistic outreach. Please pray 🙏

10-day Outreach - day 1

Friday (10th) was day 1 of our annual 10-day evangelistic outreach, this year at Ibiara. Team members travelled to Ibiara during the day and had their inaugural start-up meeting under the stars in the school where the team is based, and where they all sleep on the floor, eat, and have pretty basic toilet/shower facilities. Please pray! 🙏

Rain glorious rain!

We had over two and a half inches of rain at Green Pastures in the night which was our first rain of the year. This makes everyone more cheerful! Our target, as always, is to reach about 40 inches in the first 5 months of the year. 

Tomorrow our annual 10-day evangelistic outreach will start at Ibiara with a team of 80. Please pray!

Great baptismal service

Just got home from our first Sunday in 2020 when we baptized 3 men: Leudo (deaf) and Murilo & Orlando (hearers). Murilo came to Christ through a teenager run Bible study group at his school run by youngsters from our church. Leudo came to the Lord through our Deaf Fellowship and Orlando is fruit of the job creation project having been helped to set up a thriving business as a gardener. His son was converted first and now Dad!

Tonight was a beautiful service. The worship was lovely and I preached on Baptism being a sign of commitment to Christ. Please continue to pray for us and the work here in 2020. Funding is very tight indeed these days.

New Years Day family lunch

We have just had a simple lunch together for all the family on this first day of 2020. It was just lovely all to be together and chat.

I made the most of grandson Arthur’s presence as he is an absolute genius with smartphones! He now has fixed mine so that I can write my blog on my mobile and not depend on my lap top. I suspect more blog is going to get written from now on!  The times they are a changing! 

Happy New Year!

We praise God for a really blessed Watch Night service last night which started at 10 pm and finished at 12.30 am. Numbers were down (owing to blessed rain! Two inches in Patos! and many away) but blessing was up! The watch night services can be too bubbly and euphoric but last night's was really spiritual. 

The service had the old church band back together from 25/30 years ago which was excellent. As I said last night - if the Rolling Stones can still perform why can't we! I preached and sang, and granddaughter Alice danced ballet to worship God, together with Milena and Rayla, to the music of What a Beautiful Name / Agnus Dei (Travis & Lily Cottrell). It was a tear jerker and greatly blessed! We ended up the service with communion just after midnight. In fact the communion service was especially nice because we held it, not by candlelight, but by mobile phone light after a power cut. ( utterly refuse to use the americanism 'power outage'!

For the rest of the week we will hopefully rest up a bit - just will need to prepare to preach next Sunday of course when there will be a baptism too.