The Mission House in Rio was extremely quiet last Tuesday evening upon our return from delivering the TREK7 team to the airport! We'll miss these six young people who served God so beautifully and tirelessly!
The day that they returned to the USA, a man was killed at the beach very close to our home in Recreio. As well, the home next to ours has recent gun shots on the front wall that surrounds this home. We praise God that He protected this team of young people during their 6 weeks with us! Thank you for your prayers!
The countless ways that God worked during the World Cup was amazing!
Although our focus was to fight against human trafficking in Vila Mimosa, Rio's first red light district, God directed and used this team in so many more ways!
This team led a children's program every Saturday at Celivre, the local evangelical free church, where they reached out and invited children from the neighborhood.
Each TREK7er also initiated many spiritual conversations on the buses and subway! They sharpened their evangelism skills and shared the gospel over and over again! God blessed us with the privilege of being used to lead a young man to Christ!
We joined Exodus Cry across the city in Vila Mimosa to pray, worship and reach out to the prostitutes there and God brought us relationships with 6 transvestite prostitutes only 3 blocks from our home in Recreio!
During our 5 years of walking alongside the full-time missionaries in Sao Paulo at CENA, we have learned a lot about working with transvestite prostitutes and have so much more yet to learn! We are excited about the possibility to begin to work in this area, should God continue to guide and direct us to do so! Please pray for us, as we further these relationships! Pray for God's continued guidance and for fruit that remains!
Jeff and I are now on our way to our triennial missions conference and have stopped in the USA to visit supporters and family. We'll be able to celebrate our granddaughter's 2nd birthday with her!
Every three years all of the ReachGlobal missionaries serving in Latin America and the Caribbean come together for a conference. We will be meeting in Costa Rica August 7 through 17.
Please pray for us to be renewed and encouraged as we take this time to be spiritually and physically refreshed as we share and learn with other missionaries.
Celebrating Christ and His work on the cross,
Diane and Jeff
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