Amazon and Negro river come together.Ready for the trip! Tito, Jonas, Gabriel and Katia
The church in Manaus, Nova Chapada Baptist.Yes we are alive and well. Just some computer problems. Here is an update on what is going on. Love you all and thank you for your prayers and support.
Dear Brother and Sisters,
This month has been very unusual and very full of many activities. We have done more travelling in on month than we have done in the whole year. I went to Caraguatatuba were my brother Epitacio has been a Pastor for over 15 years. I went with my 2 older sons and Pastor Gilberto. Pastor Gilberto is from Marilia. We went to visit a pastor near there that was going through some hard times. We had a great trip. My wife Kathy was invited to speak at the ladies retreat that their church has every year. They, both Kathy and the ladies seemed to have enjoyed every minute of the retreat. Kathy was able to take 2 ladies from our church with her. They drove there and back. It is an eight hour trip one way. But they had a great and safe trip there and back.
Our whole family had the opportunity to go to Manaus to a ministry and missions conference at the Chapada church. Also from our church we had the opportunity to take 2 from our church, Katia Soares and Luiz Brito. They had never been to a church with so many things going on. They were totally in awe of the servants heart that each member had there. This is the church were my wife Kathy was saved. David Hatcher has been pastor there for several years Pastor. There were people from all over Brasil there. There were seminars of all kinds. Even our son Titus, of age 12 did the Sunday school seminar. We got to see many of our family members there. Also we had to blessing to see many old friends from the beginning of our ministry when we lived in Manaus. Well, there is one highlight for all of them. I went to where the Home is in Manaus and caught one of those fish that every fisherman would love to catch. The famous PIRARUCU. They can weigh the average of 100 to 200 pounds. It was good eating too!!!!!!
Here in Garca we are working with reaching children on Sunday morning. Very different from the U.S, adults are not big on getting out in the morning. So we work to bring the Sunday night. We have had get friendship time in different homes and suppers for couples. The idea is to bring couples that are not from church. This has work really well. This last Friday Kathy fixed a special supper with a fish that we brought from Manaus. We had 3 couple that we invited that came that are not church goers.
We are planning on having classes to pass on what we heard. So those who could not go to the conference can learn the new ideas and also to have a time of encouragement for every one. We have many that are new Christians and that need to learn more about the church and what and why we believe. There are so many Pentecost churches here. Actually in Garca there is a church that is called Baptist and is far as they can get from being Baptist.
Also we will be teaching classes on how to teach lessons for children up to adults. The people from our church are not people who grow up in church. So they have know idea of how Sunday school and church work.
In Christ,
Odali and Kathy Barros
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