Snapshots of Missionary Life: Scenes from Camp
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Snapshots of Missionary Life: Scenes from Camp

Last week our family spent some time out at camp preparing for our upcoming inaugural retreat. (You can read more about that here) In the process, managed to snap some interesting pictures. On the way to camp we saw this fiberglass cover from an old telephone booth (once ubiquitous in Brazil, now virtually nonexistent), which…

Snapshots of Missionary Life: Vacation in Carolina
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Snapshots of Missionary Life: Vacation in Carolina

Usually these “Snapshots” posts are collections of random images culled from our Instagram account. Today will be different, however. Since we have so many beautiful pictures to share, I decided to post them directly to this page. Last week we were able to get away for a long-anticipated, much-needed, vacation. Officially, it was in celebration…

Video Project: United by the Cross
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Video Project: United by the Cross

As the quarantine tightened here in Brazil, Itacyara and some of her friends had an idea for a video project that would bring together believers from around the world. Over the next several weeks they recruited other friends – from all walks of life – to each film themselves reading a verse from a section…

Snapshots of Missionary Life: A Walk on the Wild Side
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Snapshots of Missionary Life: A Walk on the Wild Side

Here, once again, is a little window into our life in Brazil, via our Instagram feed. This week’s collection features some local wildlife, as well as other interesting pictures. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andrew Comings (@andrewcomings)   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andrew Comings (@andrewcomings)  …

What Dreams are Made Of
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What Dreams are Made Of

It was somewhere towards the end of 1995, and I was sitting in the dorm room at the Cariri Baptist Seminary in Crato, Brazil, shooting the breeze with my college roommate. Inevitably, our conversation turned towards marriage. My friend, a studious individual with an accomplished academic career ahead of him, said “If I were to…