Cactus Flower

  July 2021 has been one busy month!  We started off the days with our Peniel Bible Institute students home for their summer break.  We did our best to get them all involved in the work at Abreus.  Then our team from Community Baptist of Reidsville, North Carolina arrived on July 17.  They had been delayed by a full day so all our previous planning had to be rearranged. But they were troopers and all fell in line with no problemOs.  We visited Abreus twice for the weekly Bible club.  The guys all went back for a campover with older fellows from the interior community.  We were in Lage dos Negros for three days of activities with intermittant rain throwing more loops in our delicate schedule. Everywhere the team went they were a big crowd drawing success. The evangelism sketch board proved to be effective with children and adults.  The whole group had an opportunity to minister with young men who practice basketball together weekly.  The ...

  Clarinha, Luan, and Luise Clarinha at the School of Missions As missionaries our tasks are many:  evangelism, church planting, teaching and raising up the new generation of faithful Christian servants.  Sometimes that last job includes hosting missions groups from the USA and hauling around teenagers to participate in what we do.  Hands-on experience is a powerful tool in finding God's Will. Clarinha and Luise have both "shadowed" Byron and myself in the ministry from early ages.  Recently Luise came with her brother, Luan, and spent two weeks going everywhere we go.  While here in February they also were able to attend a School of Missions event along with Clarinha. Help me pray for these up and coming missionary ladies as they look to attend classes at the Peniel Bible Institute this next year.