Christmas at Alpha and Omega and New years at church

We had a wonderful Cristmas and a great new years. We hope that all of you had a great time also. Time flys by so fast it is hard to believe that January is almost half gone. It has been a tradition here at Alpha and Omega that we spend Christmas Eve together, and New years eve we spend together with the church family. this year was no different. We thanks God for the year and we sing and spend time together and of course do some good eating. We thanks God for all of you that have supported us all these years and especially for your prayers. May God
bless each of you.

Getting ready for New Years Eve service

CHRISTMAS!!!!

Hope all of you had a great Christmas. We had a wonderful Christmas here. We wanted to emphases the true meaning of Christmas. The world has totally turned this DAY into a money making business. It’s so easy to forget the true meaning. God gave us the greatest gift of all! What have we given?

The Adolescents had their Christmas banquet and they had a great time and enjoyed their time together. Especially the food! You will never believe what they wanted to eat!?? Lasagna!!! Doesn’t sound to Christmassy does it? Well, they enjoy every bit of it.

End of the school year and two graduate from high school!

Around here things are doing great. Kids are out of school until the beginning of February. The school year here actually follows the calendar year. That is because our summer months are from November to March. We for sure do not have a white Christmas. This year we almost had a WET Christmas. We have had lots and lots of rain. If we lived in low land we would be flooded out. But we live 3000 ft above sea level. Wonderful fresh air! Actually I think it is the most perfect weather on earth!!!! The kids are enjoying being out of school. They have had lots of fun between the kites and the swimming pool.

Ademar has lived with us for a long time.
His father died many years ago and mother is mentally disturbed.

Gisleide, never knew her father or her biological mother.
She lived with a family until she was 12 and then they gave her
back to the court that sent her to a home.

Mission trip to Alvorada do Sul

Beautiful river!

On memorial day we got together and took a mission trio to Alvorada do Sul. There is a mission in this city that we have been helping for a while. The couple that started the mission used to work here at Alpha and Omega. Memorial Day here is Brasil is November 2. A little different from the U.S. We have a full bus. the bus had 57 in it and kathy and I took our car with 5 in it. The trip was great and we had a save trip there and back. We had 2 services and a special activity for the children Sartuday afternoon. The work there is growing gradually. It is a very small town near a large river and right in the middle of fram land. the building htere is almost done. Here are some pictures of our trip. Hope you enjoy. Pray for this work.

Victory and New Things to come!

We are really excited about what is going on around here. The services here in Garça and in Marilia have been great. The numbers are constant but most important is that we are always having new people coming. In both places we have had many teens and some parents to come.
Here at the home things are moving on. We have had many victories. One big victory is about Gestal. Gestal used to live here at the home. We now have his mom and siblings here living with us. Their house had fallen in. When the prosecutor found out that Gestal was here he had him taken to another home here in Garça. The prosecutor was very determined not to let him come and live here. Actually he told Gestal’s mom that if she wanted her son that she would have to leave alpha and omega. Her answer to him was that she would not leave. Because when she didn’t have any where to live and had no food to feed her kids no one cared. She only found help at Alpha and omega. Well to cut the story short, the judge singed for Gestal to came and live with his family here with us!!!! We praise God for this victory!!!!!!
We are working on some projects to work with kids some in the morning and some in the afternoon. Kids here only go to school half day. We want to have more time with those who are coming to church. We are planning on helping them with school work, painting, Jewelry, hygiene, sports, manners and so on. This past week we have been completely redoing our library. We are taking out books that we don’t need and making a list of new ones we need. We are also working on the classrooms to get the ready for the projects that will be done in each class. Most of the classrooms are in good shape and do not need much work done. For classes like beauty and hair care we will need to make some adaptations. If we have a good number of teen boys around 15years old or more we will also have classes in electronics. This is really important to have for the older boys because this city is known for its factories that make electronic components. We are really excited. We also plan on having the same kind o projects in Marilia. We will also have a time for teaching bible lessons and principals for daily living.


Eating Sunday lunch together with the church






Services in Marilia on Saturday

Having Services In Marilia!

We are so excited with the servicesin Marilia. We have been there for 2 weeks now. The 1st week we had 45 and this week under lots of rain we had 30. The amazing thing is that we have had several adult to come out. And what is really amazing is that we have had men to come. It is easy for women to come because they come with the children, but men is another story. We are taking a large group from the church here in Garca. we have been taking about 40 to help get things realy and visit the neighborhood. Every one had really enjoyed going. Our services here in Garca have been great. We are running over 70 on the bus route.
Here are some pictures for you to enjoy.

News letter

We hope that all is well with each of you and enjoying the blessing from our Lord and Savior. We are doing great! God has been so good to us and just shown His love and mercy each day.
The church is doing great. We have had many new time visitors morning and night. This month of August we had 49 first time visitors. What is interesting is that we have not even done any special visits and promotions. The church purchased a bus this last week. We are now running 2 buses on Sunday morning. Many of the ones coming are bringing others. That is what it is all about. One thing that we are doing is spending more time together. So about once a month we have lunch together. Next Sunday we are going to have home grown chicken stew and cooked corn bread (mush) with fresh lettuce salad grown here also. Sounds good?!!!! It is good!!!! Better than the food is the fellowship that we have together. The church bus driver mentioned the other day that when the kids started coming that the screamed and cursed but now they come sinning the songs that they are learning in Sunday school. That was a big encouragement for the bus driver. Please continue to pray for the church that many will come and hear and be saved.
Here at the home we are doing well also. We have 2 new teens. One is odali’s nephew from the city where mike Creiglow lives. Pray that if he is not saved that he will come to know the Lord and Savior and grow each day. Also we have Gislaine back with us. I will be requesting her guardianship this week. She is from Marilia. We talked to the prosecutor of that city about some kids that used to be here and how we could help them. He told us that he would give any guardianship that we wanted. All we had to do is ask our lawyer to request them. Pray about this with us. There are several kids that have contacted us that are asking for help.
We had a fantastic blessing that happened last month. We had a Home was given to us. There is a children’s home is Marilia that was closed. The couple that owned the home contacted us to see if we would be interested in having the place. We had several kids that come to live with us that had stayed at their home. We have not fully decided what kind of work we will be doing there. One thing we do know is that we are going to start having services there on the weekends. We drove around the neighborhood and found no Christian churches. One of the projects that we have been studying about is working with retired folks and need a place to stay during the day. For those that still have good health and need to keep their minds and bodies moving. This is also a great opportunity for evangelism. Please pray for this new project that God will lead us each step of the way.
We want to thank all of you that pray for us faithfully and support the ministry. You are important to us. May God richly bless you and your families and churches!
Love in Christ,
Odali and Kathy