Welcome to the Pruitt family's mission work newsletter site, ongoing in Recife, Brazil.
“The heart is treacherous”, goes a popular saying in Brazil. It expresses how there seems to be a battle between our minds (reason) and our hearts (emotion). Doing the right thing may not be easy or straightforward when you deal with emotional impulses that want to lead you elsewhere. How to do God’s will in […]
Edson, formerly living on the streets, now helps Lar Maná[/caption] Lar Mana (children’s home) update: The work we’re doing is going well. The place is getting more organized and more cheerful with brighter colors. Things have been fixed, recycled, repurposed and painted. The institutional beige and gray are giving place to sky blues, sunny yellows […]
It is with great joy that we announce the arrival of Theo Jordan Pruitt. Theo, which is a well-known name in Portuguese and English, derives from the Greek work for “God”. Jordan, name of the river, derives from the Hebrew word for “flowing or descending from”. And that’s how we named him: our blessing that […]
Mike and Peggy Palk (along with their three boys) served as missionaries in Recife from 1980 to 1985. Afterwards, they returned to their hometown of Cookeville, TN. For the last twenty years Mike has served as an elder at the Collegeside congregation there. They came back last month to visit the mission work they began […]
