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Being Like Jesus – NE Christian Lectureship 2016

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

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 […]

Day of the Family of God

Sunday was the big annual Day of Family of God when all the congregations in Recife get together. We’ve done this event for over twenty-five years but this was only the second time made it a daylong event. The assembly took up most of the morning. After a good lunch together, most people stayed for […]

Working the “angles”

Twenty-six married couples involved in the leadership of a dozen congregations spent the weekend studying how to have a closer walk with God.

Last week twenty-six couples from a dozen area congregations gathered for a weekend of Bible study, fellowship and reflection. Most are involved in the leadership of one of these congregations. Directing the encounter were marriage counse-lors Jerry and Gail Heiderich from El Campo, Texas near Houston. The Heiderichs have served for many years as missionaries […]