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Another Historic Day!

Each day is historic isn't it? First of all it will never be repeated and there are happenings in each day that are "firsts." Yesterday in the history of Faith Baptist Church of Habiteto, Sococaba, São Paulo, Brasil, was historic in two ways. We had our greatest number of people in Sunday School at 38! Rose and her six kids arrived a bit late but we are rejoicing that after nearly 12 weeks of Bible study with her we are beginning to see the bud of fruit in her life. She has yet to accept the Savior but she is very near that decision. Continue to pray for her.

The second historic event happened after our morning Sunday school as we met at Alexandre's house for our organization service. It wasn't a service per se but a time that several of us met to put our doctrinal statement on paper along with our intend to become a church. This document will now go to the mayor's office for recognition and we will be "official" in the eyes of the local government. This is the first church that we've participated in in which we have taken this step so early. It is a good step to take early, we've just never done it this way. We were excited to be a part of the process.

Continue to pray with us about God's direction regarding land or building. To date we have R$25,000 brazilian committed and some $4600 US for a total in Reais of R$33,280 toward our R$55,000 goal (just over $30,000).

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