Our current church-plant in São Luís. Stay up to date on what God is doing in this ministry.
Brazil’s annual Carnaval celebration was once again rather muted this year, due to Covid (silver linings, etc). However, our churches continued their tradition of using the days off to get together for spiritual refreshment and fellowship. Itacyara and I were able to participate in two of them. Since Ebenezer had nothing planned for Monday, we…
One of the main reasons we took a shorter furlough this year (ten months as opposed to the traditional twelve) was so that we could participate in this year’s meeting of all our BMM missionaries in Brazil. These times are always a blessing, and this year was no exception. The Setting The conference was hosted…
Last week the Ebenezer church celebrated nine years of existence since we began the work back in 2012. Our hearts are filled with joy as we reflect back on all that God has done since those early days. Here are some pictures from the anniversary conference. A highlight of the conference was the presentation by…
The Videira Congregation is one of our sister church plants in Maranhão. For several years they have had a piece of property and been hoping to build. At the beginning of this year Itacyara and I were able to secure some funding for them, and they began the construction process. Here are some pictures. We…
I was going to post some other news this week, but then I got some more pictures from the Ebenezer remodeling project that I just had to share. Pastor Francivaldo and the members of Ebenezer Baptist Church are to be congratulated for their initiative and dedication to making the physical plant of the church as…
While we are in the US on furlough, we occasionally get pictures of things taking place back in Brazil. Here are some photos of recent “sprucing up” done by the members of Ebenezer. We are thrilled to see how the Ebenezer church continues to grow, develop, and carry on the ministry now that we have…
Itacyara and I are currently attending the 100th anniversary celebration of our mission agency, Baptist Mid Missions. I will have more to report, probably next week. For now though, I thought I’d give you all a heads-up for the newly re-launched BMM website. The IT people at the mission have done an admirable job of…
One of the more encouraging features of the Ebenezer Baptist Church is how they have rolled up their sleeves and taken ownership of raising funds for their building. I say this because it is not every mission work that takes this kind of initiative. An example of this “can do” attitude was seen last weekend,…
One of the benefits to the traditional approach to furlough (four years on the field, one year stateside) is that it affords ample opportunity for a missionary to step back and evaluate what went right and what went wrong during the previous term. As Itacyara and I engage in this process, one of the sources…
A few weeks ago we mentioned here how happy we were with the new men’s ministry at the Ebenezer church. One of the core values that Pastor Francivaldo instituted for the group was that it would serve to train men to be better husbands and fathers – which includes teaching basic skills necessary for the…