Camp Update: Kitchen Progress
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Camp Update: Kitchen Progress

For the second week in a row I was able to spend a few days at camp, overseeing the kitchen construction project. Here are a few pictures highlighting the progress. Stay tuned, there is a lot more exiting news to come! Did you enjoy this post? Consider making a donation to our ministry in Brazil….

James 1:4 – Good Trade
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James 1:4 – Good Trade

James 1:4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. In my ever-so-humble opinion, one of the most underrated films of recent days was Disney’s reboot of The Lone Ranger. One of the “running gags” of the movie involves Tonto, hilariously interpreted by Johnny Depp, making dubious…

Camp Milestone: First Pastors and Wives Retreat
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Camp Milestone: First Pastors and Wives Retreat

As Itacyara and I look back on last weekend, our hearts are full as we contemplate how almost a decade of investment, blood, sweat, and tears have finally paid off in the form of a Pastors and Wives retreat at the Mount Zion Baptist Camp. And as of two weeks ago it wasn’t even on…

James 1:3 – Authentication and Endurance
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James 1:3 – Authentication and Endurance

…knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. In last week’s installment of our verse-by-verse examination of the book of James, we noted that the author gives us a somewhat counter-intuitive instruction. In the face of trials, we are to “consider it joy”. Consider is a mind word, not a emotion word. James is…

São Luís from Two Decades Ago
São Luís

São Luís from Two Decades Ago

As I’ve mentioned before, I see it as one of my duties to inform the rest of the world about one of Brazil’s best-kept secrets – the city of São Luís. Recently this promotional video from 1999 has surfaced, showing our lovely city as it looked back then. It appears to have been aimed at…

James 1:2 – Turning Into the Spin
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James 1:2 – Turning Into the Spin

When I was a teenager I got a job at a local fast-food restaurant. As we lived out in the country, my parents graciously (perhaps a tad naively) allowed me to use the family car to make the communte. To get to work, I had to navigate a particularly curvy stretch of asphalt known as…