Moving to a new country has many challenges. Especially, when you don’t know the language. Just shopping for groceries becomes a whole new experience, never mind having a meaningful conversation with anyone. You feel as though you’ve regressed to being a small child, you need someone to help you do most things, speak for you … Independence Day-VW Kombi Purchased!
Sao Luis (Saint Louis) is on the North East coast of Brasil. It’s a large city of about one million inhabitants. I had the opportunity to travel along with our pastor Ivanildo and a member of our church Jackiline to this city last weekend. We travelled by train for sixteen hours on the way there … Survey Trip to Sao Luis
Thought for the Day Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven” NIV.Pastor Gary at the Abbotsford Vineyard gave a sermon on forgiveness today. He started by outlining some things that forgiveness is … Three Surprises about Forgiveness
On June 6, 2014, Pastor Gary Stephens at the Abbotsford Vineyard Church talked about forgiveness, which included the following assumptions about what forgiveness is not. Forgiveness is not making excuses for what was done to you. Forgiveness is not pretending it never happened. Forgiveness is not waiting for an apology. Forgiveness is not pretending it doesn’t hurt. Forgiveness is not a … Forgiveness is not…
After thirteen months, the loss of my Dad, surgery to remove my gallbladder, a health scare for myself and my kids we are finally back in Brazil. It feels really, really good to be here. Our travel down was long, as it always is, and full of emotions-like a tossed salad. One minute our kids … Back in the Brazilian Saddle
Hello to all my Friends and Family! I miss you all, and hope everything is going well for you.It’s been an exciting month here in Altamira, as we celebrated the marriage of Christopher and Denise. It was an incredible wedding. When Denise starting walking down the aisle, everybody started crying, including Christopher and Denise! I … Celebration!
This was the site of one street in Altamira that we could not use (unless we had a canoe) as we were leaving on our ministry trip. The river has been so high with all the rain. Many houses have been flooded out and people moved to temporary locations. This is the line up to … Missions in the interior
Worship and teaching early in the morning during our weekend training What happens when you plant churches? One of the byproducts is that some thought needs to be put into how to care for those churches. Six years ago I started a training program that focuses on this aspect of the work that we do. … Training Others
A storm gathers over the river (You can find part 1 and part 2 via the links) We arose bright and early. The previous day, after realizing that things beyond my control had pushed our trip back, the day to leave was finally here. We packed up, excited to go. I was taking along … Boat Trip Reflections – Part 3
A couple of friends, one old and one new. This was taken while out visiting homes in a village community. (This post is part of series which starts here) Monday it was time to leave. The plans for this trip had been made the previous month. However, there was a glitch. The parts that … Boat Trip reflections – Part 2
