Musical Interlude: Wonderful One-man Recording

Baptist Mid-Missions missionaries from Northeast Brazil: Triunfo, 2012 In the last post I told of how I was in the city of Triunfo for the Northeast Regional Conference of Baptist Mid Missions of Brazil. We hold this event ever year, and it is always a great time of refreshment and encouragement. Since our arrival in…

Since versions of this are going around the internet like wildfire, I thought I would post this one, which–in keeping with the general theme of this blog–features Brazilian artists:

Here are some pictures of the “miracle in Morros” mentioned in our most recent prayer letter. Getting ready to travel. The village of Bom Gosto (Good Taste) Relaxing in the river. Cottage industry: making farinha Jadson with some of the neighborhood kids. Neighborhood boy demonstrates his improvised, functional, toy gun. The service begins. Abreu at…

Last Sunday was a significant day for our little congregation. We had 17 visitors from the community–not counting the folks who come every week to help us from the First Baptist Church and the Boas Novas Church. Below are some pictures from our evening worship service. Yours truly, giving the children’s message. One of the…

While my old haunts of Upstate New York were experiencing a snow storm that closed schools, classes were let out here in Sao Luis for other reasons. We took advantage of the unexpected holiday and took my parents to the nearby city of Raposa, where we went on the tour of the inlets and sand…

It’s been two weeks. The pickin’s are kind of slim…either the internet is getting less interesting, or I am getting more busy…or both. A freaky poem that uses all the same letters…in the same order…to create two different meanings. Time Travel Back to the San Francisco Earthquake Lego Creation of the Week 1 The English…