The above picture shows the men of the Ebenezer congregation (yours truly in the middle doing his best Braveheart imitation) on the recently purchased property, after having hacked through the underbrush that dominated the landscape up to that point.
Next step: designing the building that will one day house a fully organized, New Testament local church.
*My original title was “Weed Warriors”, but that might have caused some confusion…
Today the beautiful woman pictured above is celebrating her birthday. Her beauty, intelligence, fervor for Christ, and love of her family never cease to amaze me. Please join me in wishing my lovely wife Itacyara a very happy birthday!
At roughly 4pm, Brazilian time, pastor Samual and I finalized the purchase of a piece of property for the Ebenezer congregation. Pastor Samuel is the pastor of our congregation’s mother church, the Igreja Batista Regular Boas Novas. We are amazed and grateful to see this congregation step up, financially and otherwise, in the process of…
If you get our bi-weekly e-mail, you know we asked for prayer regarding our congregation’s Carnaval Retreat–to be held at the Boy Scout camp. I am thrilled to report that the retreat was a rousing success, tents and all! Below are some pictures: Setting up the tents The kitchen ladies at work Lunch line! Mikey…
The Good News (Boas Novas) Baptist Church is the umbrella church for our Ebenezer church plant. Since early last year, Pastor Marcelo has been challenging this congregation with the possibility of opening another church plant. This week, they officially took up the challenge and opened the Vine Baptist Church in a very populous neighborhood. Words cannot…
Saturday was our last day at the camp property before progressing on to Ceará. Our time in Morros was extremely profitable. Over the last two weeks we have: 1) Installed a circuit breaker box 2) Applied for an electric hookup 3) Contracted a well digger 4) Put together a construction project 5) Met with pastors…
If you have been following our posts at all, you know that for the last month my parents, Harold and Judy Comings, have been visiting us here in Brazil. To say that it has been a great time would be a tremendous understatement. Mom and Dad’s presence has been encouraging, uplifting, and edifying. As we…