Triunfo team encourages Pastor Paulino

Our Triunfo team has been helping a struggling work in a city about 20 minutes away. Both of our missionaries Chico and Jorge along with their key leader Oto are pictured here with Pastor Paulino who has been delighted over the team's help. They have been able to add weekly ministries at Pastor Paulino's church along with evangelizing and making disciples in Triunfo. This fits in so well with one of our goals of encouraging and helping existing works and their leaders. Pastor Paulino is pictured lower right. The city he works is "São José da Baixa Verde".

Sweetheart Banquet at Koinonia

This weekend we had a special emphasis on the Christian home that started out with our sweetheart banquet on Saturday. Then on Sunday our special speakers Salomão and Cíntia ministered to our couples during S.S. and in the church service. It was a great weekend in every way.

Fireproof in the Outback

It is an interesting world... Recently Carlos was able to show the film "Fireproof" to couples in Ingazeira. It is neat that these tools are coming out pretty fast in various languages. It makes for a good option for an evangelistic event.

Missions Conference

We recently had our annual missions conference at Koinonia. We had ABWE missionary Jerry Neuman as our speaker. We also had national missionary Carlos Heron who gave his testimony and presented the work God has called him too in the Gambia. The neat thing about it is that he is a dentist and will be working in partnership with ABWE in the clinic there. Carlos was a blessing to our folks with his willingness to give up a successful practice here in Brazil to make a difference in missions. May his tribe increase! Please pray for this family as they prepare to go.

Conference in Outback

We had a good conference in the Outback city of Serra Talhada. There were more than 60 pastors missionaries and leaders. It was a good time for Marcy and I to be with our missionaries at an event together. The music had a genuine outback flavor. We hope to have more of these events. Each one was encouraged and challenged to live and minister with integrity.

Outback Trip

Marcy and I leave tomorrow for the Outback. These are pictures of towns along the way. Pray for our conference for pastors and leaders in the region. We look forward to being with these precious brothers and sisters.

New Believers in the Outback

Carlos (pictured upper right) just got back from the Outback city of Ingazeira rejoicing at the group of new believers. A pastor friend of Koinonia's here in Recife is now making monthly trips with some his leadership team to help Carlos with weekend activities. As you can see some of these are young couples so Carlos is using his house's living room as a nursery for now. The house is only a block and a half from the church property.