in 2012 God provided us with property for the development of a Christian camp. The Mount Zion Regular Baptist Camp is located roughly two hours from São Luís, near the city of Morros. We are excited about the potential impact of this ministry.
I just returned from a very productive day spent in Morros, overseeing the progress of on the construction of the camp kitchen. Overall I’m very pleased with the results. As you can see from the pictures, the wall has been raised up to the second “belt”, and the walls for the middle room – which…
I love the ocean. One of my favorite pastimes here is going to one of the many beaches within ten minutes of our house. But THIS is why I do not swim in said ocean: This bad boy was caught off the coast of the city of Icatu, which, if you’ve been paying attention, you…
That title could serve as a summary of my life. Or…it could refer to a group of four intrepid “upstaters” who spent two weeks in August helping us build our camp kitchen. Yeah, we’ll go with the second option. Meet Christian, Allie, Jon and Christine. These two couples from one of our supporting churches got…
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…
When I was born, my Dad was pastoring the Dryden Baptist Church in Dryden, New York. We lived there until I was four years old. Yet, despite having known me as a toddler, this church has faithfully supported our work here in Brazil for many years. Last week was their annual Vacation Bible School, and,…
Nathanael and I spent this last Tuesday and Wednesday at the camp, where the work on the electrical installation continues. Usually I take Michael, but this time I decided it was time for some “Dad and NayNay” time, and he was actually a big help. For example, he figured out how to assemble the toilet…
On Monday I took two guys from São Luís out to the camp, and together we fixed some problems with the water grid, and began the process of putting putting the power grid in place. This is the first step towards two major goals we have for the camp in 2019: installing the power grid…
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…
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…
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…