Welcome to the Pruitt family's mission work newsletter site, ongoing in Recife, Brazil.
Weekly meeting for training and discipleship. “…to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah” – Ephesians 4:12. This has been the goal of the weekly men’s meeting at the downtown congregation. Every other Saturday afternoon, the men of the Boa Vista congregation come together […]
Imagine having no running tap water or electricity, hospitals, police stations, or supermarkets. That is how a community of people live in the Vale do Catimbau. Planning the mission trip at a hotel The Vale do Catimbau is a desert-like region about a 5-hour drive from Recife. Part of that journey is on dirt roads. […]
I’m not sure how history will record the last year-and-a-half, but it has been an exceptionally tense period. Many became ill; some died, and everyone was affected. The church was not spared participation in this trying period. The faith of some grew cold while others were strengthened as with refinement by fire. In the end, […]
One of our great challenges of this mission effort has been to establish elderships. A recent poll showed that there are now 326 congregations in Brazil since churches of Christ began sending missionaries 65 years ago. However, less than 5% of these have elders. In the New Testament, we see that elderships were common in […]