Visiting Camp Victoria

We had a great Christmas with my parents. The kids really enjoyed seeing grandpa and grandma!
We will be here at Camp Victoria till the 6th of January. I will be helping assemble a zipline and do some maintanence on the camp bikes.
On the 6th we return home and then on the 8th I leave on a trip with the Salvation Express some 1000 miles up north to take 10 doctors and dentists to help in a very poor region of Brazil. We will be assisting a Christian ministry up there for 7 days.
God bless you and may you have a great new year!

Prayer request

Please pray about the possibility os the Salvation Express aquireing a boat on the San Francisco River. This has been a dream of the board for some years. The San Francisco River is over 1700 miles long.
http:San_Francisco_River
The goal would be to assist poor communities on a stretch of 250 miles of river. The boat would serve as a floating Seminary, School, Health Clicnic and agricultura consulting office. It is a big project way beyond our power, that is why the board feels it is from God. Just as God told Gideon:

"The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many men for me to deliver Midian into their hands. In order that Israel may not boast against me that her own strength has saved her," Judges 7:2

The things God has for us are way out of our confort zone and well beyond our power or capability!

This is the boat that is in view for sale. Of course it is way over-priced and we do not have the funds but we are praying for God to give us the boat. It is big enough as well as versitale enough. So keep us in your prayers and remenber that God's plan for your life is way beyond your reach so that you must depend on Him and when you look back one day that you may say," The Lord did amazing things!"

News update

Hello everyone! Our trip to the Machakali reservation was cancelled due to some requirements the indians made. They wanted to distribute the food we took themselves and all clothing donated had to be brand new. Since those two requirements are out of our reach we postponed the trip till next year. After all our goal is to evangelize and help those who are poor, since such requirements were made these folks did not seem to needy. Hopefully next year it will work out to visit this area!

This weekend we recieved a group of Dentist and Doctors who came to serve in both orphanages we have here in town. The Salvation Express organized this event. All went well and many all the orphans recieved treatment. Many folks who live in the rural area also recieved medical and dental attention. Folks were impacted with the fact that people would care enough for the as to come and treat them for free. But that is exactly what Jesus did for us!

Moody Study goes on.

These past weeks have been spent mainly on getting my Moody Bible School material up to date. I hope to fininsh the material by the end of next year.
Telma and the boys are doing well. The boys will be on vacation the end of this month. They might go on my next trip up to the Maxakali tribe in December.
Thanks for your prayers!

November is flying by!

We are all doing well and busy as the school year comes to a close this month. Matheus and Max have adapted well to the new school and we have been very thankful for that!
I have been working a lot on the Moody Bible School training I have been taking. I hope to have my first 40 credit hours done by January. It has been a tough task studying again but God has blessed a lot. Next year I plan to finhis the other 20 credit hours that will be missing and with that get an Associate of Biblical Studies degree. Going to really need God´s help for that!
Next month we are organizing a trip with donations, doctors and evangelism to s different Indean Reservation some 600 miles away, the Maxakalís. Well God bless you all!!!

October trip to Xakriába Tribe.

Trip to Xakriaba Reservation

We are back from this very successful trip. The Lord protected us as we travelled and our families back home.

We were able to take many donations of clothing, toys and food. Best of all were the Bibles and Christian literature that the Brazilian Bible Society donated for us to take.

Our first stop was at the San Francisco River, were we worked along side a local missionary who ministers to the poor folks who live on the river banks.

The weather was very warm nearly 110F. We nicknamed the bus, "The Microwave of Salvation".

We visited an Orphanage for children ages 0-3 who have gone through starvation or have dratic health problems. There were over 30 kids and we were able to spend some hours with them.

At the reservation we visited the main school and gave out Bibles to teachers and High Schollers. For the younger children we gave out

Christian childrens material. In the evenings we had evangelistical events with plays, songs with an accordian and much more! The folks really enjoyed it.

The Brazilian goverment is making it ilegal for missionaries to go into these tribes. The reponsibility is falling upon the native Christians more and more.

Thank you for your prayers!

Upcoming trip!

On the 17th of this month we will be heading up to the Xakriaba Indian tribe. We are going with a lot of donations and Bibles to be donated. The trip will take around 15 to 20 hours. The financial needs for the project have already been supplied for! Please pray for protection for those that go and the families that stay behind.

New video of last trip!!!

Hello everyone,
Was able to finish our prayer letter yesterday, so next week you should be recieving it.
Here is the link to watch the latest video of our last trip.
September Trip
Enjoy!!!