That title could serve as a summary of my life. Or…it could refer to a group of four intrepid “upstaters” who spent two weeks in August helping us build our camp kitchen. Yeah, we’ll go with the second option. Meet Christian, Allie, Jon and Christine. These two couples from one of our supporting churches got…
This is our ongoing report of the visit from the missions team sent by Fellowship Baptist Church. You can read the previous installment here. On Monday we set out early to do some work at the camp. For over a year I have had a pile of bricks at the bottom of a hill. Every…
When I was born, my Dad was pastoring the Dryden Baptist Church in Dryden, New York. We lived there until I was four years old. Yet, despite having known me as a toddler, this church has faithfully supported our work here in Brazil for many years. Last week was their annual Vacation Bible School, and,…
If you’ve been following our posts here, you know that, once our pavilion at camp was in place, we discovered that we needed to add two more pillars for extra stability. As the pictures in this post show, those pillars have now been built! A special thanks to the generous folks who donated the funds…
On Saturday and Sunday we held our first major evangelistic outreach in the city of Morros. For those of you who are new here, Morros is roughly two hours from São Luís, and is where our camp project is located. About 45 people from São Luís (20 of whom were from our Ebenezer congregation) embarked…
These are some up-to-the minute pictures sent by our builder of the camp project. The wood for the roof beams has been delivered, and he is currently working on the PVC dividers for the bathrooms.
A quick follow up to yesterday’s post on the progress at camp. This morning several of the essential materials were delivered to the camp property – the roof, PVC for the stall doors and dividers, and the water box. We are still waiting on the wood for the roofing to be delivered – yet another…
Today and tomorrow I am at the camp property with Pastor Francivaldo to check up on construction, purchase more materials, and pay workers. After our wildly successful work day on the first of this month, we faced two major hurdles: the truckers’ strike effectively killed our plans for a second work day, and several of…
We have some up-to-the-minute pictures from the camp construction project to show you. These show the sinks, toilets, piping, and wiring being installed in the bathrooms.
We are currently in the city of Fortaleza at a conference, but the camp construction work continues. While en route between São Luís and Fortaleza, I received these pictures showing the latest progress. The links below are affiliate links. This means that clicking and making purchases is one way you can help our work. Also,…