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Last month the combined ladies associations of the state of Ceará held their annual retreat. This year’s venue was a resort near the city of Martins, in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Norte. Because we lack our own state association, our Maranhão churches are associated with the Ceará churches. And this year, for…
In many churches here in Brazil May has been designated as “Family Month”. One of the ways our church is observing this occasion is by having our Wednesday prayer meeting in the homes of various members, in stead of at the church building as usual. This week a dear couple from our church hosted us,…
One of the highlights of the past couple years, for me personally, has been watching Itacyara come into her own as a counselor and conference speaker. She is consistently in demand, and everywhere she speaks she gets rave reviews. No exception was the lecture she gave two weeks ago to the Ladies Fellowship here in…
Over on Facebook I’ve mentioned once or twice that we’ve been getting a lot of rain. I should specify: by a “lot of rain” I mean that if we get much more, animals are going to start going by two-by-two. What we are experiencing is abnormal, even for rainy season. Here’s a video showing a…
Last night it was my privilege to participate in the quarterly youth rally of UMBREMA – which stands for União das Mocidades Batistas Regulares do Maranhão, or, in English, Union of Regular Baptist Youth Groups of Maranhão. Here are a few of my takeaways: The next generation of our churches is in good hands. The…
I mentioned this in our latest newsletter, but I thought I would put it out here as well. One of the coolest things going on at the Ebenezer church plant right now is the recorder orchestra. Here’s a version of “Happy Birthday” that we did for the anniversary celebration of one of our sister churches….
Here are some of the pictures that have graced our Instagram account over the last few weeks. Enjoy! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andrew Comings (@andrewcomings) This is from a recent church event. You can read about it here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andrew Comings (@andrewcomings)…
Well…sometimes…missions is a walk in the park, if by that you mean an actual walk in the park. Let’s back up a little. It started with just me. In my never-ending quest to get my weight down to where it should be, I took up running. This was back in November. Most days my running…
Ever since I have been working in São Luís, we have agreed on the need for formal, non-seminary training to be available for our lay leaders. After much planning and a couple false starts, we have finally been begun our first modular course, Bible Study Methods and Rules of Interpretation, taught by our colleague, Pastor…
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…