Our Missionary to New Zealand

AIM is a two year program in Lubbock, TX, that gives young people the opportunity to work on mission fields around the world. Diego dos Anjos and Renato Menezes from João Pessoa have gone through the program and both served in Mexico. Marcos Paulo Sobral (Ricardo and Sueneide's son) is currently serving in New Zealand. Here is an excerpt from Marcos Paulo's November newsletter:

BIBLE STUDIES
I've started two Bible studies, one of them is with Sam (left in the picture) he is a really nice young guy that loves to play sports, I'm enjoying to study the Bible with him. The other one is with Korana, my flat mate Andrew is leading this one, Korana is very nice guy that we've been trying to help, he has a lot of problems that needs to be solved and we are doing our best to bring him to Christ and to help him get out of those problems, he is very interested in the Bible and he really wants to change, so that's a good thing, please keep him in your prayers.

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"What About Baptism?"

Edda and I went to a nearby city to study the Bible with a family, Genilda (who is already a Christian), Ana, Mariana, Luiza, and Jefferson. While we were reading God's Word, Ana's husband, Silva, came in and sat down, and then blurted out: "What about baptism?" It took me by surprise because he has barely studied with us, but, most certainly, is already thinking about spiritual matters. Our Bible study then took a lot of detours, answering this question or that. Silva said he still has a lot of questions, and we pray that the Lord will use us to answer them, bringing him to understand the Good News!

One More Goodbye

This year has been rough for Borges's family. They lost a pillar in their family, his wife's mother in February. Now her brother has passed, buried today. He was diagnosed with prostrate cancer 18 months ago. A policeman, used to taking care of the family, he had to settle with being taken care of by the family as his body gradually shut down when the cancer metastasized to his bones. Borges and Geilza have spent every free moment taking care of Demilson's needs, and it has been torture watching him slowly wear away. His colleagues in the Military Police carried his casket, played taps on a trumpet, presented his family with a Paraiba flag, and thanked his family for supporting him in defending society for nearly thirty years. It was a nice gesture, but the event that gives us believers hope in the face of death is Jesus winning over the grave. He is our certainty that a grave is not the end.

Men Preparing Themselves in the Word

Every Tuesday night for the last month we have been getting together to study God's Word. The subject is controversial but needed because it affects relationships and families in the church, and we as spiritual leaders will be more effective if we are united in teaching Jesus' will on marriage and divorce. Just like Jesus, we want to go back to beginning and uphold God's ideal when He created marriage: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Matthew 19:4-6

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