Please pray

Today we woke up to news that a dear friend of my dads that we just met last night was killed in a car accident. My dad was thankful to have had another chance to see him last night. He was a kid in the Mexico 70 favela that came to know the Lord in one of their first outreaches. He left the slums and had been sent out as a missionary to plant a church in the north of Brazil. Pray that the church will be comforted and that if Melissa and I should extend our time here a few days to help with a ministry time on saturday that it will be clear.

Ben

Mexico70

Hey guys we are in Sao Vicente, we left Campo Friday it took nine hours to drive from there to Sao Paulo the drive was so beautiful and the kids did such a great job being in the car that long. We did have a rough time when we got in Sao Paulo we ended up getting lost when we got into the city. We drove 3 hours to find a hotel when we got to one we were so tired we all crashed. Thank you Lord for a warm bed and Hot coffee in the morning cause we got both. We woke up and reunited with Karen and Larry they drove us to Sao Vicente.


Mexico70 is a ministry in a favella (Slum) it was started by a girl named Kelly. She was telling us that the Lord had given her direction and a heart for the children in this favella. They rent a house where the children from mexico70 come. It starts with worship with the kids then snack after that they go into their age groups and do a bible lesson for 45 minutes. The kids ages range from 3 to 14. They get to share the gospel with the children who then tell there parents about the Lord. Please pray for this ministry, they are in need of a better building. The one they are in is not in good shape and the landlord doesn't seem to want to fix it. Also pray that they will get more workers ;) and reach the families in this slum. We got to help today it was such a blessing to be there my heart really reached out to this favella, to the children and the parents I wish i could do more work there, i know by praying for them i will be apart of it even if God doesn't call us back here.

Caminho Melhor

Deigo and Aline pastor of Calvary Chapel Campo

Moriahs Birthday

I wanted to post some pictures of Moriahs birthday it was a lot of fun we went to a place called the magic balls. The kids had such a blast, i enjoyed watching them play with the other kids there even though the language was hard. I dont think Moriah will ever forget her 9 th birthday.

Campo Mourao

Campo Mourao

Pictures of Calvary Chapel's property in Campo Mourao. We will post pictures of the village across the river tomorrow, it is quite a contrast. We will also post pictures of Caminlho Melhor where I will be preaching Thursday night. Pray as the children's ministry and evangelism in the village is the kind of ministry we really enjoy. This area is quite different than the massive cities of 20 million and 4 million we had been in.