Welcome to the Pruitt family's mission work newsletter site, ongoing in Recife, Brazil.
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 […]
The School of the Bible has finished its first trimester of courses for 2018 and begun a month of intensive courses before our one-month winter break in July. Ten courses were offered with 116 students in total attendance. Highlight: This was the first time we offered a class off campus, at a sister congregation. We […]
You may have read my last update on The Lar Maná (Mana Home). It is the church’s children shelter. This shelter is a home to many boys and girls that were removed from different situations that were endangering their lives in different ways. The Lar Mana cares for them in the best way possible. There […]
