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 a lot of exciting things to report…so stay tuned throughout the day…
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…
This is long overdue, but what follows are some pictures and commentary from a trip I took with area pastors and laymen to the state of Ceará, where we participated in that state’s association meeting. As there are only two Regular Baptist churches in Maranhão, we participate in the Ceará state association. The four men…
Since our arrival in the US we have become accustomed to answering questions about the Summer Olympics in Rio. As we live roughly two thousand miles from Rio de Janeiro, our answers have been limited. We do have colleagues, however, who serve in Rio. The Patefield family – Nathan and Dawn – serve with…
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…
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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,…