Christmastime in São Luís
What is Christmas like in a tropical city?
Updated with more pictures.
What is Christmas like in a tropical city?
Updated with more pictures.
If you follow us on Facebook, you know we spent last week in the city of Manaus, on the Amazon River, at the annual conference of the Baptist Mid Missions missionaries here in Brazil. Later on I’ll have pictures, but for now, here’s a sequence of videos I took with the GoPro. As always, a…
Some pictures and videos from our trip to the camp construction project today. View this post on Instagram More courage than sense… A post shared by Andrew Comings (@andrewcomings) on Sep 11, 2018 at 6:23pm PDT View this post on Instagram Just hanging out on the side of the road… A post shared by…
Since we moved to São Luís, our own involvement in puppet ministry has all but come to an end. We have put on a couple programs for VBS, but other than that, our foam friends are enjoying somewhat of an extended sabbatical. On the other hand, Cicero and Nice Braga–our former partners in puppet-crime–continue to…
Frank Jertberg It was October, 2005. Itacyara, Mikey and I were at Fellowship Batist Church in Lakeland, saying our final goodbyes before embarking on our Brazilian adventure. After the hugs and tears, I was about to walk out the door when an old friend–veteran missionary of many years in Brazil–motioned for me to come over….
Yeah, I know, it’s a couple days late. My excuse is that we were on an island in the middle of the Sobradinho reservoir in Bahia. Internet access was “iffy”. The occasion was the New Years retreat (or Retiro da Virada, in Portuguese). Thanks to my friend Júnior (our camera is operating at a less…
One of the most frustrating aspects of furlough is being “away from the action”, so to speak. We see things going on in Brazil, and want to be in the middle of it. Having said that, it is at the same time extremely gratifying to see God continue to bless the work there. These are…