More Welcome Back Gifts!

More welcome back gifts were received yesterday! This was a basket of chocolates given by the 'Young at Heart' group in the Patos church! The 'Welcome Back' service will be this Sunday at 6.30pm.

Please pray for Philip who will be preaching at the Caroá anniversary service this Saturday evening and leading the church band there which includes Sacha and granddaughter Louisa. Philip has had a very stressful week with his work so it won't be easy for him. They will all be back for our 'Welcome Back' service tomorrow.

Total and utter Drought!

Please pray for rain in Brazil's north-eastern interior! Please donate to EAB's 'drought fund' to help us help people in this catastrophic situation. This is "Green Pastures Farm" this morning at 37ºC in the shade. Total and utter drought!

Felipe 18 and surprise welcome home food basket!

Today our eldest son Felipe reached the ripe old age of 18 so we have had the usual family get together this afternoon to eat cake, drink coke and sing happy birthday!

We have also just received a beautiful basket of sugar-free foods for our evening meal as a welcome back gift from the church's singles and divorcees fellowship. This was so nice of them!

We're back in Patos

We got back to Patos this afternoon all safe and sound. Tired but happy. Thankful to God for all His goodness. Some of the family were around to greet us!

Back in Brazil

We have just had a shower followed by breakfast on the beach after a good sleep in Natal. Now we're heading for Patos!

The flights yesterday were good with no problems with anything. Thank you for praying.

At Heathrow on way back to Brazil!

I'm drinking tea waiting for our first flight to Lisbon from where we will catch another flight to Brazil. We left Basingstoke at 4.15am and were checked in & through security by 6.20am for an 8.15 flight. Thank the Lord that the fog has gone.

Yesterday we met with Mike Hollow (ex-Tearfund), Ben & Miriam and David & Linda. We got to bed at 9pm & were up at 2.50am.

We're heading for home & will be preaching in Patos on Sunday. We covet your prayers.

Final weekend of the Euro Tour 2015

On Saturday we had a lovely time at Liz's nephew's house in Calne, Wilts together with his family (Andrew, Holly, Poppy and Jacob) and his father David and his wife Tania. It is a very beautiful area that they live in. Andrew has a fascinating hobby of keeping a massive salt water aquarium which is absolutely beautiful.

Yesterday was our final Sunday of the tour and the service at Cefn Cribwr in Wales was great. Lovely praise and worship, the presentation went great and the warm welcome was lovely. This was followed by a beautiful lunch with Gail, Esther and David from the church who visited us in Brazil a couple of years back. 

Following this we headed for the Lawrence Weston Community Church in Bristol where the Lord blessed too. However the fog came down on the way and we almost arrived late. Then after the service the fog was even worse as we headed back to Basingstoke... but we made it.

Now today is a very very busy day prior to leaving for the airport at 4.15am tomorrow. Please pray that neither the fog or the NATO exercises over Portugal will hamper our flights. I have already returned our hired car which was a great car. I am now catching up with my communications, then going to see Mum for the last time, then meeting up with Mike Hollow (ex-Tearfund) and then meeting up with Ben & Miriam and David and Linda plus a lot more prior to hitting the hay by 9pm or there will be no point in going to bed as we will have to be up at 3am.

So thanks to the Lord and to everyone who contributed to this being the best tour of churches ever as far as we're concerned. PTL!