Welcome to the Pruitt family's mission work newsletter site, ongoing in Recife, Brazil.
Vale do Catimbau is a very impoverished region. Members of the downtown congregation set out for a 5-hour trip into the interior of the state for our second SOS Sertão (SOS Hinterlands). Our visits are to a small community in the Vale do Catimbau, a desert-like region quite isolated from the outside world. Church members […]
Professor João teaching How to Read the Bible This month we began the new courses at the School of the Bible. This is our third period of classes since the pandemic, but the first offering classes on weeknights. Because the school is in downtown Recife, we can only offer courses at times that are safe […]
This month we held our annual Acampateen, the biggest youth camp within our brethren in the northeast of Brazil. We were not sure how this year was going to go. For the past two years, we were not able to have Acampateen due to Covid restrictions. So, we were more than excited when 100 teenagers […]
April marked the beginning of the new in-person classes at the School of the Bible. With restrictions slowly being relaxed in the state, this is the first time we have classes without a mask mandate in effect. It is a great blessing to be able to our students smiles and interact with them “face-to-face”. This […]