Email from Brazil:
We are here and have finished our first full day of ministry. The people are warm and wonderful. We have visited six towns today and have had seven worship services. Loretta and I have used all our balloons in the first day! We should have brought a suitcase full. We gather the children with the balloons, their parents come to check on them and then they all stay to hear the message and the music. We have traveled over many dirt roads and lots of bumps, but even though the ride is rough, the time with the people has been glorious. We are taking lots of pictures and will have many new stories. We are prayer walking in every village, meeting so many people and the only language we have in common is God’s love. So much to say and so little time.
All our homes have been very Brazilian and very warm and wonderful! We are so tired now and must go to bed under our mosquito nets.
Keep the prayers going, we love each of you and are counting on your prayers.
Hugs and blessings,
Kay and Loretta
Follow up Report:
Brazil Report
Loretta Gowan and I spent eight days in the State of Minas driving along rocky dirt road with 18 of the most wonderful servants of God. We were with ten Brazilian pastors, two Brazilian ministers from Grand Prairie, and three from other churches in the Dallas area. The purpose of the trip was to share Christ with those along the way, prayer walk in towns and villages that have no Baptist work at all, and to see how we can partner with Key Brazilian churches to plant new works in the towns that have no evangelical church. This is called the P-70 Church Planting Project. It is sponsored by The Brazilian Fellowship of Grand Prairie, under the leadership of Jairo Campos. It is pure evangelism and was a most wonderful and eye opening mission trip. You will hear more about it later as well as about our opportunity to form a partnership. This team from Dallas will come to Temple and each of you will have a chance to hear more about the P-70 Project. In the mean time, please pray for this work.