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Lashonda returned to Henderson on May 24 to do a short course at Freed-Hardeman University. Vinícius and Adam stayed here for a few more days. It was great having them with us. Adam’s vocabulary grew a lot in English and Portuguese while they were here. Our relationship with all three was very good.   David, Wren and Judah [...]

  Vinicius and Adam returned to Henderson, TN last Friday. It was a cry baby experience. The baby cried, the parents cried and the grandparents cried. Oh well… life continues. Vinicius begins summer classes tomorrow so they had to go back. Pray for them as they prepare for the future. Lashonda made the highest grade in [...]

Brother, are you serious about your spiritual life? Do you read the Word of God frequently? Is it the pattern for how you live your life?   Do you pray to God often? Do you pour out all of your thoughts and sentiments before Him? If He depended upon your prayers to know about your life, what would [...]

Our church building is very conveniently located—just three blocks from the main downtown square of Belo Horizonte, which has a metropolitan population of about five million. There are hundreds of thousands of cars and hundreds of bus lines that pass both in front of and behind us each day, besides a bridge that borders our building [...]

Our car is running great and getting excellent fuel mileage (kilometrage) after the overhaul. Praise God!   Eddison’s health is also great now. We praise Him and thank the doctor and medicine that helped him to get well. It turns out that the slight case of asthma was aggravating the chronic sinusitis and rhinitis to the point that [...]

We wrote on Monday that we should be driving our van this week. We drove it home yesterday evening! It has never driven better. It is also very, very filthy. Grit, grime, grease and dust are all over, under and through it! We carried it to the car wash this morning, where they have the equipment [...]

CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN : We are very proud of our children and grandchildren. David lacks one semester finishing his degree in “Video Productions” at Cincinnati School of Arts . Wren is doing a great job of Stay At Home Mom and Wife, which is evident in the life of Judah and David. Judah walked at almost 10 months and at [...]

Yesterday was a very good day. After taking care of Bryan’s passport renewal I was able to invest my time for the Lord’s cause and organize several ministries. I instructed the secretary of the National Bible School about communicating with the nuclei of the school outside Belo Horizonte (Rio de Janeiro, Belo Jardim, Cuiabá, Uberlândia, [...]

God blessed our campaign work yesterday in the small neighborhood congregation of Nacional. We went door to door offering prayer for the residents of the neighborhood and inviting them to the worship service last night. Six first time visitors attended the worship service. Continue to pray with us that those who attended last evening and those who [...]

Most of the campaigners arrived last Friday, Sunday and yesterday. One more should arrive today and another this Friday. The campaigners are coming from Freed-Hardeman University and from other cities in the interior of our state of Minas Gerais .   Lashonda, Marcus Vinicius and Adam arrived last Friday. It is a pleasure having them home. LaJuana arrived with the [...]

January 11, 2007   The National Bible School begins its activities next Monday through Friday night with an intensive course on "THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL" taught by our missionary brother David Meadows from Sao Paulo. The following week will mark the beginning of the regular quarterly classes. The quarter will be from January 22 to April 7 and the [...]

Hello and a Happy New Year to everyone. May the Lord bless you and use you this year to His glory and praise. About one hundred members of several congregations in the greater Belo Horizonte area met at our “Camp Of the Pines” outside the city last Sunday for lunch, fellowship, the evening worship service, an [...]

Hello to everyone. Our prayer is that the Lord is blessing you immensely and using you as a blessing to others.   Invasion of your privacy, robbery and trickery–how do you feel about these things? Someone stole my Internet access code recently and was using it at the same time I was, which ended up costing me money. I [...]

The trip to Curitiba from August 31 to September 5 was very good. Marcos Sacramento, Garibalde Oliveira and I traveled in Garibalde’s car to Campinas, São Paulo on Thursday and passed the night in the home of Marcos Rogério, a brother in Christ. We stayed up until 3:00 o’clock encouraging Marcos to continue firm in the [...]

We moved my office this past weekend from within our house to its original location in the building out back. Lashonda, Vinicius and Adam had lived in my office space until they moved to the USA on August 14. It will take a few weeks to get things in order.   LaJuana and I get more and more [...]

A very dear friend wrote to us asking if we thought we were "called" to the mission field and if so, how. If not, how did we decide to come here. While answering her letter, I thought that others might want to know what I think about this. Here is my response:   “This subject always intrigued me, [...]

GROWTH PAINS. We all have them and they are not fun, but they are necessary in order to grow. Lashonda, Vinicius and Adam left Belo Horizonte yesterday on their way to Henderson, TN. They plan to get settled in there the next few months, get into jobs, etc. and then begin school at Freed-Hardeman University in [...]