Well, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s just way too much to catch up on for the past few months so I’ll have to just summarize and recap what’s been happening. Since the UBC team was here in July so much has happened….
A huge blessing is that a couple from Tennessee moved here to be our co-workers in the ministry! They had participated in many mission trips here with their church and fell in love with the people and the ministry. With the support of their church family they sold their home, left their jobs and moved all their belongings to Brazil. They have been here for 6 months and are adapting very well to the culture and learning the language.
A huge blessing is that a couple from Tennessee moved here to be our co-workers in the ministry! They had participated in many mission trips here with their church and fell in love with the people and the ministry. With the support of their church family they sold their home, left their jobs and moved all their belongings to Brazil. They have been here for 6 months and are adapting very well to the culture and learning the language.
In October Pete and I had the incredible blessing of traveling to India for a week to visit a ministry work that helps the very, very poor. A supporting church of ours invited and helped sponsor us to participate on a team that reached into the very far regions of India where white foreigners are uncommon (Patna, Bihar). We visited many distant villages where not just the poor people lived but also where the “untouchables” lived. These are the extremely poor who, because of their societal beliefs, have no hopes whatsoever of a better life. Needless to say, having a passion for the poor as we do, we left there burdened for these people. Please pray that our organization, A.M.O., can form partnerships with this ministry and others like it to reach the very poor!
Several fun packed field trips have been made in the past months involving children sponsored in our Embrace-a-Child Program. The older kids went to a theme park called Hopi Hari which can best be described as a very mini-version of Disney. Rides, games, attractions, and shows, not to mention the long lines, kept them running until it wore them out! Another group of young teens was taken to the beach for the very first time ever! They absolutely loved it- a couple of them were really afraid at first but, after a while, gained up the confidence to go in further. A man, who happened to be sitting nearby, soon learned that they were underprivileged kids and he went about renting body boards for them to use! Really neat. They got back really late in the evening totally exhausted but with memories that they’ll never forget! Thank You to all the sponsors! And………These outings would have been almost impossible without the bus that UBC provided!THANK YOU UBC!
Several fun packed field trips have been made in the past months involving children sponsored in our Embrace-a-Child Program. The older kids went to a theme park called Hopi Hari which can best be described as a very mini-version of Disney. Rides, games, attractions, and shows, not to mention the long lines, kept them running until it wore them out! Another group of young teens was taken to the beach for the very first time ever! They absolutely loved it- a couple of them were really afraid at first but, after a while, gained up the confidence to go in further. A man, who happened to be sitting nearby, soon learned that they were underprivileged kids and he went about renting body boards for them to use! Really neat. They got back really late in the evening totally exhausted but with memories that they’ll never forget! Thank You to all the sponsors! And………These outings would have been almost impossible without the bus that UBC provided!THANK YOU UBC!Besides our Children’s Day Festivities, the Christmas Play, the renovation of our Ministry Center in the favelas, Baptisms and Bible studies in the homes, there is so much more that has and is happening. Hardly a day goes by when something’s NOT going on here. Please keep us as a family, our entire Brazilian team, and those we minister to in your prayers.
Blessings to all,
Pete and Jodi
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