Field Report: A Conference of Hope
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Field Report: A Conference of Hope

Hope as in “Igreja Batista Regular Esperança” or, Hope Regular Baptist Church. These conferences are great, because it gives us a chance to see how God has worked in our association of churches here in São Luís. One of the greatest blessings was seeing Pastor Geandro, newly-called pastor of the First Baptist Church. As you…

The Maranhão Team
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The Maranhão Team

Today is a national holiday here in Brazil (Corpus Christi), and since our camp work day had to be cancelled, we pastors and missionaries decided to get together with our families at the beach. We had a lovely picnic and great fellowship. Itacyara and I count it a great privilege to be able to work…

Good Pizza and Great Plans
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Good Pizza and Great Plans

Last night Pastor Francivaldo and I met with the leadership of the Ebenezer youth group at a local pizza parlor. There, around three magnificent pies, we listened to the ideas and dreams of the young people for their group, and set forth our philosophy of church/youth ministry. Look for great things to come from this group of…

Bibles for Bricklayers
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Bibles for Bricklayers

Missions is not just carried out in formal preaching/teaching sessions. Indeed, for the most part it is dealing with people you meet in everyday life. Like the workers who are building our house. In conversations with them, I discovered that four of them had no Bibles. So we took care of that problem. Since then I’ve…