As I mentioned in my previous post, last week we held a celebration of the ministries of five of our missionaries here in northeast Brazil who are retiring after years of faithful service. As one of the planners of the event, it was my job to collect pictures for a short video presentation. Several of…
Last week we had the privilege to once again attend the annual conference of the Baptist Mid Missions missionaries serving in Northeastern Brazil. We were able to be refreshed by the fellowship and camaraderie of people engaged in the same work, encouraged by reports of what God is doing, and edified by the messages brought…
If you’ve been following our posts here, you know that, once our pavilion at camp was in place, we discovered that we needed to add two more pillars for extra stability. As the pictures in this post show, those pillars have now been built! A special thanks to the generous folks who donated the funds…
Earlier today I posted the following on Facebook: So…here are the details. First, yesterday we had the privilege of bringing in two new members. Sidney and Celia have been attending faithfully for several months now, and are excited about taking this new step of commitment. Second, in our annual meeting we formally elected the new…
There was a little event that happened on Saturday, in the middle of events I described in my last post. It didn’t really fit into the theme I was going for, so I didn’t include it in that report. But I feel I should share. So here it is, the great TP adventure. And yes,…
I feel I should preface this post with the affirmation that I believe our Christian worship services should be characterized by decency and order, and that God has given us a human capacity to plan and organize for the express purpose of planning and organizing – including worship services. And now that I have that…
On Friday I took three guys with me to the camp to inaugurate our 2019 projects. We begin this year by adding two columns to our pavilion in order to provide more stability. So on this trip we paid our workers, bought the materials for the columns (thanks to a couple generous contributions), and took…
This year we have put together a dynamic team of young people at the Ebenezer church plant to take our digital footprint to the next level. Here are pictures of last Sunday’s service, as they appear on the new Instagram account. If you would like to keep up with what’s going on at Ebenezer feel…
The following is section of Chapter 18 of Missionary Max and the Jungle Princess, entitled Traditional Values. It features brand-new original art by artist-extraordinaire Zilson Costa. In the previous chapter, our hero spent a day as the guest of the lovely Ilana at a festival of the native Yamani people. Though the day was enjoyable,…
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