Blessed to Be Here!

Visiting a supporting church while in the States

What a privilege it is to be here in the name of Jesus Christ! We arrived home here in Rio on Sunday afternoon after a 24-hour delay in Washington. We have arrived encouraged, renewed and refreshed (just a little bit tired) after time with family, friends, churches and our tri-annual conference.

We returned to the Rio airport on Monday to go to the Federal Police and check on the status of our visa process, as well as welcome Zach, a young man who is serving the Lord by making a video of our work here. He will be staying here with us this week, shadowing our team and filming the work that God is doing here in Rio.

Tomorrow night we will host one of our quarterly Network Dinners with our Brazilian partners here at the Mission house. We are anxious to re-connect and hear how everyone is doing after our 2-month absence.

Good news---we have our Identity Cards! They expire in a couple months and were late, but this is the first time in our 6 years here that we have managed to receive them! PTL!

The above photo of us and Tom was taken at a supporting church's Sunday School class our last Sunday in the States. They are studying the book, "When Helping Hurts" by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, a book we highly recommend. We have used this book as part of the training of short-term mission teams. We were asked to give some first-hand perspectives on how some of these principles apply here in Brazil.

Please pray for fruit that remains as we begin the work that He has prepared for us to do here in 2012!

Blessings,

Diane