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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I remember, as a kid, being at the mall with my parents, seeing some toy or game or other thing that I fancied, and telling them how much I would like to have it. Invariably, they would smile and say “Well, Christmas is coming.” My protests of “But it’s August!” were of no avail. These…
On Saturday and Sunday we held our first major evangelistic outreach in the city of Morros. For those of you who are new here, Morros is roughly two hours from São Luís, and is where our camp project is located. About 45 people from São Luís (20 of whom were from our Ebenezer congregation) embarked…
For the past several years I have been invited to give a talk about the American Thankgiving holiday to Language Arts students at the Federal University in São Luís (UFMA). Today I was blessed by the presence of Jefferson and Ermgard, Brazilian missionaries to India. We had a great time with the students, and were…
The Sacred Music Week held by the Regular Baptist churches in Maranhão back in July continues to bear fruit, as most – if not all – of our churches put into practice, in one way or another, what they learned that week. At the Ebenezer church plant, one of the spinoffs of Music Week was…
If you know me even superficially, you are probably aware that I like trains. A lot. Ever since arriving in São Luís, I have been fascinated by old pictures of the train and trolley lines that used to crisscross the city. As I walk the streets of the old part of town, I occasionally see…
The latest in a series of posts based on messages in Luke that we are currently preaching at the Ebenezer Regular Baptist Church. Luke, the historian with an agenda of communicating the truths of the Kingdom to his fellow Gentiles, has put together a group of incidents from the life of Christ that have as…
As part of the ongoing process of putting the finishing touches on our church structure, this week we put added drop ceilings to the nursery, entrance way, bathrooms, and pastoral apartment. Here are some pictures, so you can accompany the process. Photos courtesy of Pastor Francivaldo