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Great Weekend!

Last Friday Alexandre and I went to talk to an accountant friend. He will be working on some important paper work that needs to be submitted to the mayor's office for our church to be a recognized entity. Paperwork here can be a lengthy ordeal and we would love to have you praying with us about this important process.

I've already mentioned that Alexandre was able to raise some money to help in our land purchase. One of our supporting churches has also taken on the challenge and will be giving their January and February Adult Sunday school offering to the purchase.
As we talked to our accountant friend he informed us that we might be able to get a piece of land donated to the church! So, if you would also remember this as you go to the Throne of Grace for us we would be thankful. Can you imagine what a blessing that would be! We have prayed that God would make His will perfectly plain to us. If we are given the property to the next church I believe that that would be His hand at work.

Club started again on Saturday. Though we were somewhat down in attendance it was a good group of 29. Vitor came to the Savior which made the day worth all of our efforts!

On Sunday we had a good turnout at church with 33 from the Habiteto alone. We had a small group from Hope Baptist that helped and some new visitors. We were excited with the 43 that were there to hear the Word. There were also 4 candidates in our new membership class. We hope to be able to baptize them on the first anniversary of the church at the end of March.

This coming weekend we will be taking our teens on a series of outings. We'll return to the water falls for some wet fun on Saturday. Monday and Tuesday we will be visiting a town about 4 hours to the south-west for a mini-Carnival retreat. During our time with these kids we ask for your prayers as we share Bible principles that will help them to grow in their walk with Christ.

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