April News

WOW! Easter is here already. We have had several things going on here. Since the beginning of this year many wonderful things have happened. Sorry we have been slow on getting things on the blog. Today I will try to get you all caught up on the news and what is going on here.

As many of you know, we no longer work with children at the home. We have been helping adults that come from the same situation that the children we worked with did. From time to time the city´s social workers ask if we can help with some families. We talk to each person that comes and see if we can help.

Some people ask us if it is easier to work with adults or with the children. Well…… Let´s put it this way; adults are set in their ways and must want to change. But then if they don´t want to change you can ask them to leave. They are old enough to take care of the business. It is definitely a different experience.

We are still having the music classes here at the church. The students are coming along very well.

We had a group of people from Caraguatatuba were Odali´s brother has been a pastor for over 14 years. We had a great time of fellowship with them.

Also, while they were here the church from Marilia and Vera Cruz come over and spent the day. We had activities during the day and services at night. Every one enjoyed the good eating and the fellowship.

We are having a great number on Sunday morning. The attendance is growing continuously. We had so much rain that for almost 2 months it was hard to pick people up on the bus route. The rain was great, but we are also thankful that it has stopped and now we are having great numbers on the routes. We have started visiting again. We are working on bringing out the children’s parents. There have been several parents that have been coming. Another thing that has been different is the parents are bringing the kids and putting them on the bus to come to Sunday school. We are planning on having a special day first week in June, FAMILY DAY. Pray for us for this day.

Pray for the lady that is helping us with our Library. Her name is Suely.

She comes to church every Sunday, but has not made a profession of faith. She has crippling arthritis and has some difficulty in getting around. We pick her up to work in the library. To help these people financially we find different kinds of jobs that they can do so they can make money. Teaching them responsibility and the importance of maintaining themselves is one of the main things. Pray for each one of these people that they may especially come to know the Lord and Savior. As human beings we would give up on most people, but Graciously God does not. He loves taking people like Moses, who murdered a man and transformed him in to a great leader even with all his fears and disabilities. That is what It´s all about. God´s power of transformation. Praise God for His love and mercy.

One of the places where we have done some work has given us a good amount of paint. We will be able to paint lots of our rooms. We are thankful to God for the gift.

Garça is a small city and there are not too many things to do here. I don´t even think the movie theater is working. But we do have a bowling lane now. Can you believe that!!!! The teens had a competition of memorization and other things and the winner got to pick pizza or the bowling.

Titus our son won, and since he does not like pizza they went bowling. It was his first time and he really enjoyed it.

The youth are going to camp this week. They are excited about going. Pray for those that are taking them and for their safety.