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!
Our first Kids Club in the Rio Sao Joao bairro went better than we dared to dream. Here are some pictures of the event: At first, only a few kids showed up. Still, this was better than what we expected. Simone, Itacyara, Rose, and Francivaldo teach Romans 3:23 Of course there had to be puppets……
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:
By my watch, it’s still Monday. So here is a little linking mayhem for you to start your week… From Brazil Cutting crime and energy costs…at the same time. The Tree and the Cross Some theological goodness from John Chrysostom. All my Upstate NY peeps should get a kick out of this…especially the ones that…
The following is adapted from the most recent edition of a monthly e-mail I send to my BMM colleagues in NE Brazil. I was strolling through a local supermarket the other day, idly listening to the Christmas carols being blasted over the sound system. Somewhere between Bing Crosby’s somewhat out of place White Christmas and…
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.
A few days ago a friend from the US contacted me with the following question, part of an assignment for a college course he is taking on missions: Did you run across any problems when you first became a missionary, primarily equating the foreign culture with your own? Were there any setbacks if so? If…