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João's BACK!

I walked into Sunday School Sunday morning and set my bible down to begin setting up chairs. As I looked up I saw a tall skinny kid walk across the platform. He was helping put out the chairs that needed to be set up.

My jaw dropped as I realized that it was João. I couldn't believe my eyes! I stood there in shock. As I glanced at Alexandre he smiled and said something that I couldn't hear because of all the chairs scraping the floor. He then walked over and said, "João told his dad that he wanted to come back to church and his dad said, 'Do whatever you want.'" With that interaction between João and his dad came the answer to many our prayers!

We were SO disappointed when he was taken from us and now he's back! We're excited. He lead the teens in a flute special this evening and it sounded wonderful. He's on our missions team too (more about that in a second). We're thrilled with God's intervention in his life and we're still praying that his mom, Marcia, will be able to come back too. Pray for Marcia. She is a new Christian that is a bit confused by the whole mess and we'd love to see her back with her son.

team Missions Trip? What missions trip? We are a small church with a Big vision. We are planning on making a trip in July to the small city of Peruíbe, São Paulo. It is a beach town but don’t worry we won’t be swimming much because July is the dead of winter in Brazil. We will be heading down to help a struggling church by putting on a Vacation Bible School. We’ve heard that in past years they have had as many as 250 kids during VBS week. So, there will be work to do. But it is fun to see the excitement on our kids faces as they contemplate the big trip. We’re scheduling it for July 21 – 24. Would you pray with us about those special days?

We are hoping to take the following team: Alexandre, Samuel, Joelma, Dawn, Graziele (not pictured), Michele, Cris (not pictured), João, Maicon, Guilherme and me.

Ann and Gabe Update

They’re still here! Jackson sent the needed paperwork express mail on Wednesday but to this writing (Sunday night) it is still not here. Please pray for God’s timing.

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