Praying and waiting and waiting....

It seems time has flew bye since are trip from Brazil. Ben's been attending Cornerstone's School of Ministry, and Ive been working at the school subbing and doing many other things to make a little money. God has been so amazing these months(He's always amazing) guiding and preparing us for His ministry. We been so blessed bye numerous people around us simply by asking us about Brazil, to prayer and helping with our physical needs. We appreciate everyone so much for there support.

Its January and we have been praying and asking God for direction for our family, its exciting being a family and waiting on the Lord for direction but it can also be a little hard. The kids amaze me daily at there attitudes towards leaving everything they have ever known, to a world unknown. Our prayer time is so sweet, just to see there hearts for the lost and there questions about the future. I pray for them and ask you to join me. To prepare there hearts and to help Ben and I to be parents first. As a family I want to know Gods heart for Brazil and how our family can be used to glorify and bring honor to such an wonderful God!!!!

Leaving today :(

Today is our last day in Brazil, for now. We are going to have lunch with Jim and Corene Thorp and head for the airport. Sorry blog updates have been slow, internet access isn't easy right now. Thanks for your prayers we look forward to seeing you all.

Ben

PS here are pics of Sao Vicente

hey sorry its been so long since are last post. We are doing well we are back in Sao Paulo. Staying with some friends. Moriah has been sick we ended up taking her to a children's hospital, they took X-rays and took really good care of us. She is doing better we where worried about the swine flu cause they have closed down the schools here because of this virus. She did not test for that praise the lord.
Sunday night Ben got the opportunity to preach at Juniors church. It went well, he stole Brad Duncan's mirror illustration but changed it a bit. It got attention and seemed to land the point.

We are looking forward to being home in a few days. We are going to try and connect with Jim Thorp before going but getting around Sao Paulo is tough.

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