Whew! Missions in July

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 "Head and Shoulders, Knees and Cup Game" also made the kids smile and run to be included.

We can't thank Community Baptist enough for sending the three young people, Pastor Will (William Atha) and Kerri our way. Yes, we enjoyed having our son William and daughter-in-love Kerri for the week even though most of the time was all work and not much play!

We made many new contacts especially in Lage dos Negros that we could not have made without the whole group. Pray for good results from the efforts of the CBC Pulse Youth Team.

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