At the airport this afternoon, I couldn’t resist having a little fun with this mural, depicting the arrival of Daniel de la Touche and company in what is now Sao Luis in 1612. In the resulting cartoon, I ask La Touche and company if they are planning on staying in Sao Luis long.
In reality, they stayed roughly three years.
There are a lot of things on my plate today, including (drum roll please) updating this blog. But first, a video of the New Years’ fireworks being launched from ships just off the coast of São Luís. The footage was shot from the upper veranda of our house. Since we last reported, there have been…
I missed this one, but someone helpfully posted it on Facebook. Enjoy! It should help to dispel the notion that Brazil is all Samba, soccer, and Carnaval. There’s some opera in there as well.
Last weekend I had the opportunity to speak at evangelistic conferences for a church in the city of Maracanã, in the northern state of Pará (the next state to the north of Maranhão). It was wonderful to see my good friends Pastor Izaías and Claudete, to get to know their ministry, and to be able…
My son Michael had just been born, eight days earlier. He was home, and I was back to work. The previous evening I worked an overnight shift, and was sleeping when my wife came in and mentioned something about towers falling in NY. In a groggy stupor I acknowledged that she had spoken, rolled over,…
We were recently saddened by the sudden (to us) closing of a sister mission agency. The agency in question has been used of God to enhance the work of missionaries all over the globe. We have many personal friends who worked with this group. This agency was one of the ones Itacyara and I considered…
One of the greatest challenges for the foreign missionary is staying current with what is going on in the rest of the world. Admittedly, this is more difficult on some fields than on others. And, with the advent of the internet, being up-to-date is not the obstacle it once was. But then again, the internet…