Today we will go out into the streets for our first day of evangelism with the "Dynamic Duo", Lacey and Leah!
First we'll spend some time in the Word and in prayer and then we are off looking for direction from the Holy Spirit!
We'll be ready with our testimonies, words of encouragement, the EvangeCube and flyers with addresses of several local Brazilian churches.
Please pray for divine appointments!
Following the leading of the Holy Spirit,
Diane, Jeff
....Lacey! Lacey arrived on Thursday and we are sooooo glad she is here!
Lacey is from Beaver, Pennsylvania and has a degree in Marketing. She enjoys baking and art and I have seen several photos of her artwork and am amazed by her talent! She is a self-taught painter and can replicate anything!
We put her right to work with her first language class the day after her arrival and she is grasping the language quickly! PTL!
Tonight we are planning on going to a small group. Please pray for opportunities to share, good communication and a bond in Christ with this group!
Blessed to be here,
Diane
When we discovered that our intern Leah enjoyed painting, we let her have some fun! We had a few days before our other intern, Lacey, would arrive and our training, mentoring and serving together would begin, so she kept busy not only in the kitchen (she is a chef extrordonaire) and studying language, but creating a mural on the wall of the "cottage".
We're quickly discovering that Leah needs to be kept very, very busy! She has the more energy than the "Energizer Bunny"!
Tomorrow Lacey should arrive. We're keeping an eye on her flight. She is flying standby, but it looks like she made it on the plane and is on her way! We greatly look forward to our team being together. We have spent a lot of time in prayer regarding these next 6 months! God has been answering our prayers of bringing more workers to the field!
Pray that Jeff and I can keep up with these two young missionaries :)
Pray for effective ministry as we serve together to further His kingdom!
Humble servants,
Jeff and Diane
This past week we had the pleasure of spending 4 days with two CENA missionaries, Edileuza and Monica, as they took part in Pathways, a biblical training program that we offer to our Brazilian partners.
Saturday morning after delivering Edileuza and Monica safely to the bus station for their 6-hour ride back to Sao Paulo, Jeff, Leah (one of our 6-month interns) and I stopped at the Teleferico for a ride up to the top station in Complexo do Alemao (German Complex) for a bird's-eye view of the seven communities that converge together.
During our ride up, the gondolas paused for some time to let on a
handicapped person and so I was provided some extra time to start a
conversation and share the Evange-Cube with a woman named Aline.
At the top, Leah, Jeff and I chatted with a couple of young boys who were asking for money to buy bread.
We are careful not to give out money to people on the streets as we don't know what they will buy. Instead, we keep crackers or baby food with us with our local church flyer attached.
We found out that they lived in the neighborhood with their mom and dad and their mom had bread at home. I reminded them that Jesus teaches that He is the bread of life. They shared that they knew who Jesus is and that they go to church.
Always ready to share the hope of Christ,
Diane and Jeff
