Hello

Thank you so much for your continued prayers, love, and generosity in our lives and ministry.  Pray you are blessed with this month’s update.

We were fortunate to have a team come and join us in the ministry.  The Vineyard Lancaster church sent a team of 4 to go to Brazil and participate in constructing a bathroom for our church along the Caju River in the Amazon basin.  It is a very remote area near our sister church in Portel.  We worked at the church for four days and lived on the boat.  It was scorching hot and hard work, but we overcame it and got the bathroom walls up.  The community was very grateful because they say bathrooms are rare in this area.  We pray the bathroom will be completed in the next week or two. 

Afterward, we had a church service for the community, and it was a great turnout—much more than I expected.  Elba shared the salvation message, and Mickey shared a little bit about his testimony.  Seven people committed their lives to Christ and one recommitted.  It was awesome and a privilege to be a part of their story. 

We then took the boat back to Portel and had a church service.  Brian shared the message about joining God mission and power evangelism. 

Then we returned to Belem via line boat, and our church group got together to have a barbeque.  Elba continued in her series about Gospel Christianity with the theme “Who is Jesus?”, and Mickey shared his testimony. 

The girls stayed home during our travels because they could not miss school.  Thankfully, they had their cousin Apolana, her husband WD, and their favorite nephew Thomas come and stay with them while we traveled. 

We appreciate your continued prayers:

·         Please pray that we will identify the new senior pastor of the Belém church plant.

·         Please pray that the Lord will continue to reveal His plans to the church and us.

·         Please pray for our church, leadership, and congregation to help people draw close to God as we navigate this time and leadership transition. 

·         Please pray for our family, especially our girls, in this next phase of our lives.  

·         Please pray for our spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, and financial health.  

·         Please pray for the rejection of this virus from your loved ones and its eradication.

Much love, Steve, Elba, Camilly, and Alyssa

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