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New Classes at the School of the Bible

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This period the School of Bible had over 140 students in 9 courses. I am teaching two of them. Both of my courses are in the new Theology training series that began in March. One of the courses is called Introduction to the Bible. It deals with basic questions like: “Can we believe the Bible?”, […]

Austins’ visit to Recife

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We were blessed last month by the visit of Doug, Nicki, and Jonah Austin. Doug is the pulpit minister with the Country Club Road Church of Christ in Roswell, New Mexico. They came down to look over the mission work in spite of the ongoing Zika virus crisis, which originated here in Recife by the […]

Being Like Jesus – NE Christian Lectureship 2016

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Last weekend was our annual Northeast (Brazil) Christian Lectureship. We call it “Congresso”. This four-day “fellowship feast” is held in a different city of Northeast Brazil each year with a different local congregation hosting it. This way many different congregations can partake in the blessing of hospitality and those who come can get to know the […]

Training Future Eldership

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I am writing this from Lar Mana (our church sponsored orphanage) at the end of Elder-Link NE 2015 (annual seminar of Northeast Brazil’s for developing elderships). Everything went well. This may have the best turn out of the six to date. There were eighty participating (sixty men and twenty wives). Twenty congregations were represented, from […]