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Sandro and Gislene

Sandro and Gislene

During my work with the Habiteto team I have gotten to know a young couple who are on fire for Christ. Sandro and his young wife Gislene are just four years old in the Lord but are about to embark on one of the biggest adventures of their lives. They will be going to study at our Bible College in Curitiba this coming February.

Sandro was lead to Christ by one of his furniture making coworkers. He comes from a background which in his words was full of Godlessness and foul language. But, what energies used to be spent on using the Lord's name in vain is now employed telling others about his Savior. Sandro is the type of person that you simply cannot talk to with out him mentioning his Lord over and over again.

Gislene came to Christ...




I beg your prayers for this precious family. They will be going by faith and not by sight. Sandro, as I mentioned, is a furniture maker. He does good work. However, in a conversation just the other day he told me that he has never been able to find steady work (this is not uncommon for furniture makers here in Brazil). He said, “I know that the Lord has a purpose in all of this. He knows that if I did get a steady job that I might take my eyes off the goal that He has for my life.”

He proceeded to recount how that on many occasions God has met his family's needs in wonderful ways. One in particular grabbed my heart. He said, “We were down to one liter of milk and that was for our baby. That is all that we had in the house, there was no other food. Gislene said to me, 'Sandro what are we going to do?' I told her, 'I don't know but I know this, God will never let us down!'” He said, “As we knelt to pray and ask for God's help there was a knock at the door. It was Lorenso (a friend from the Calvary church) with a 12 pack of one liter boxes of milk and many other groceries!” He wept as shared this testimony of God's goodness.

Pray with me for God's direction and provision for this couple.

(here I am years later, finding this old post. This couple has been in ministry for several years now. God is faithful) 

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