We are doing very well down this way.  

This coming week we will be encountering colder temperatures (lows of 8c to 10) and without heat and higher humidity it will feel much colder. 

Keep us all in your prayers as we work.  So far we have been kept from harm.  However my back is not happy and is complaining quite loudly lately.  

This weekend we spent time with Lyndell and Paulo, doing a tour of Porto Alegre.  and then the Barbecue house that has a traditional Gaucho (cowboy) show.  It was very entertaining, but we came back so full that we could hardly eat this morning.  

This morning we went out to Cidade de Deus (city of God) which is a spiritually based drug and alcohol recovery center.  They were celebrating their 7th anniversary.

  They presented certificates of completion to 12 men who completed the 1 year program and were now free from addiction.  It was a very moving ceremony with all of the testimonies.  They had a picnic and as you know,, what is a picnic without rain?   The guys had been hard at work putting up a shelter for everyone to be dry and reasonably comfortable.    

Tonight we were at the Boas Novas Baptist church.  They had the farewell for Filipe and Jessica Pinheiro (Bayer)  Then the message from Diego.  It was excellent and most of it I understood and translated the highlights to Jean and Ross

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