Day 15

Day 15 (Friday)

Hello Everyone,

Christen and Marcia left this evening for a two night women’s retreat while Sammy and I went to a big birthday party for Karina, a 15year old girl whose is a younger sister of one of Sammy’s disciples named a Vladimir.

We had awesome churrasco (barbecue) and birthday cake.

We left the party and 3 guys joined us for late-night coffee back at Sammy’s home. These guys are in one of the 30 cell (small) groups in the church here.

The highlight of the evening was a new brother in the Lord, nickname Tatu who sung us a recent song he wrote. He is only three weeks old in Jesus.

He is a secular musician by trade. It will be wonderful to see him re-direct his talent to the glory of God in the years to come. I pray he will get grounded & his life will yield a fruitful crop (Matt 13:23).

Last year, he remembered Michael Chatman who came on the 2008 mission team in the studio when they cut a bi-lingual Christian Brazilian music CD. Tatu commented, “Oh, here comes these lame Christians again! How ironic- 12 months later his eyes would be open to Jesus.

“Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary” Galatians 6:9

What a good reminder for us. You never know who is watching you and what seeds you are planting….even if from all appearances sake you don’t observe any spiritual interest.

On behalf of the team,

Jason