Update

Hello everyone....just a quick update: Kay & Katie did arrive safely on Thursday and were immediately whisked off to visit the favelas. It's been pretty much non-stop since then with visitations, evangelizing, bible studies, testimonies and such. Although, we did stop to eat a wonderful meal yesterday at the Churrascaria...... it was tough but, someone had to do it! :) The favela that we took them to yesterday is in Campinas and one in which we've worked for many years. We were invited into quite a few homes to talk and pray and it truly was a blessed day. I'm looking forward to returning there with Kay & Katie on Sunday to visit more of our friends.

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Ongoing prayer requests:

• Please pray for the 6 year old girl from the favelas who lives with us, that she will continue to grow strong in the Lord, forgetting all the past ugliness she's experienced, and that we can be the security and love source that she's always lacked in her life.
• Continue to pray for our support. In these economically difficult times our support has dropped drastically and will significantly affect our ministry.
• Pray for those that we are ministering to (and those to come) that their eyes can be opened and their hearts softened to hear and accept His message. We have seen many come to know the Lord in the past weeks and months- Praise the Lord!
• Pray for our team that they will continually grow and that the desire to reach others for Christ will continue to burn strong. They are doing a wonderful job of teaching and reaching people for Christ.
• Pray for the women in the favela who learned how to beautifully paint dishtowels in our arts/crafts program as they are now teaching others!
• Pray that, the Lord willing, a team from UBC will come minister with us in 2011!! We have been wanting a team to come for a long time!

Thank you for your prayers and encouragement!

Deus te abencoe! (God Bless you).....Pete and Jodi