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Weak hands and feeble knees

Englsih Bible class (08Jan13)

Lagoa de Itaenga (Lake It-ta-en-ga) is a small, farming community an hour and a half northwest of Recife. If you were to drive through it, which you probably wouldn’t since it’s off the main highway and has no tourist attractions, you wouldn’t notice anything outstanding about it (I can’t even find the lake that gives […]

As you did it to one of the least of these…

StreetMinsitry02Jan13

The “Bread Ministry” is one of the evangelistic/benevolence ministries of the church here that ministers to the people who live on the street. Every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening a meal is distributed in the city square and a worship service is held. The big annual give-away to the Bread Ministry people was held last […]

“Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

Tim Brumfield (05Dec12)

The church here had a real treat this week with the visit of veteran missionary and my good friend Tim Brumfield. Tim’s a New Mexican who has spent twelve years planting the church in the great city of Salvador, 500 miles south of Recife. For the last several years Tim has been teaching at the […]

A Home for God

Fortaleza Family Day 2012

We set a goal eight years ago to study every book in the Bible in the adult Sunday School class. We’re two-thirds of the way on this twelve-year journey. Each quarter we alternate between an Old Testament and a New Testament book. I mention this to explain how we wound up studying 1 and 2 […]