This month was incredibly busy, so my reading took a hit. Nevertheless, I managed to finish one really good title. The Dead Sea Scrolls by Gary A. Rendsburg Preparations for my Old Testament Survey class led me to this series of lectures. I found it to be a veritable gold mine of information, useful not…
This is the final installment of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one, two, three, four, and five. The main…well…focus of the F.O.C.U.S. team this year was English Day, an event where we invited people from the English speaking community for a day…
This is a continuation of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one, two, three and four. After enjoying the dunes and the Preguiça River, it was back to work for the F.O.C.U.S. team. On Thursday morning they cleaned out a room at our…
This is a continuation of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one, two and three. Of course the dunes are not the only natural beauty to be found in our lovely part of the world. Not by a long shot. Since we were…
This is a continuation of our report on the visit of a missions team from Fellowship Baptist Church in Lakeland Florida. Read parts one and two. A mere two-hour drive from our camp project lie the Lençoís Maranhenses dunes. So spectacular is this natural wonder that Marvel used them as a backdrop for scenes in…
On Sunday (August Fourth) the Ebenezer congregation held the grand re-opening of our Sunday School program. Several changes were implemented: a new time (morning as opposed to afternoon), more time (two hours as opposed to one), and structure (an opening assembly, an hour of class time, a closing assembly). To commemorate this new phase in…
Last Friday marked the first class for the second semester of our Church Leadership Training Course. I’m teaching Old Testament Survey this year. The class has grown since last semester, and we are feeling a lot of enthusiasm for the course. Did you enjoy this post? Consider making a donation to our ministry in Brazil….
This is our ongoing report of the visit from the missions team sent by Fellowship Baptist Church. You can read the previous installment here. On Monday we set out early to do some work at the camp. For over a year I have had a pile of bricks at the bottom of a hill. Every…
Last week we were once again privileged with the presence of a team from Fellowship Baptist Church. I say “once again” because this is the third time a group from this church has visited us, under the banner “Fellowship of Christians United in Service” (F.O.C.U.S.). This time Pastor Daniel Comings (aka, my kid brother) brought…