A few years back, sometime around 2006 to be exact, we had the privilege of hosting some little girls in our home on a regular basis so they could study in town every so many times per month. Those little girls lived with their family on the island camp. The family were friends who had moved from Fortaleza to help us in our new camp work. They were faithful members of the church we had helped in JoaoXXIII. The church there sent them out as lay missionaries to come and help us in Bahia. There were three little girls including the one sitting beside William in the picture above. Since homeschooling is technically not allowed in Brazil and these girls needed to study and there was no school on the island - we worked out a deal with the local school and the secretary of education of our little town to have the girls assigned to their proper grade and classroom at a school in town but only come in to go to class in person so many times a month. The rest of...
Just a mama trying to bloom where she is planted in the dry Northeast of Brazil.