Here’s to the end of a great weekend…a former PAZ intern and mutual friend of Silvia and I arrived in Santarém on Saturday! It’s always exciting to receive visitors! (Hint, feel free to take on this role in the future by offering to visit and support one of your missionary friends! They’ll be blessed and so will you.)
Tomorrow morning we are taking off for the village of Macaco, or Renascer if you want to use the unofficial name as given by the locals. The roads are rough and tough and impassable with a car, so we will be taking the bus…a 5 hour noisy, bumpy ride in the sweltering heat (the last two days it has been almost 100F in the afternoon), packed in with who knows how many people! We’ll arrive there tomorrow afternoon at about 2 PM and then 12 hours later, I’ll climb back aboard to return to the city. For all you math majors, that’s right, the return bus leaves at 2 in the morning…not much sleep to be had that night :-) Becca will be staying there with the health team that is currently ministering in that community and some others in the vicinity. Please pray for their work this week.
But the reason I have to come back right away is that I will be sharing the message in my cell group for the first time since I’ve arrived here and have been learning the language. This is a big step and has me a bit nervous. Thankfully, Brazilians are very gracious and patient in listening to foreigners stumble through some thoughts in broken Portuguese. Please pray with me for a calmness and ability to focus and remember what I’ve learned. I’m sure that when I successfully come out on the other side, I’ll have been encouraged by my ability to communicate, in the name of Christ Jesus!
Living in Grace,
JAE
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praying for His spirit to give you the words :-]
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