23:48 Friday night, Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil.
We just got back from a welcome ceremony (and then ice cream of course) at Central Baptist Church. The people of Central always make us feel like we are long lost relatives. Their hospitality is wonderful and a great encouragement to our team. Carmen made us play some silly games and then talked about the Body of Christ. She illustrated her point by having 5 teams create different parts of Jesus' body and at the end of the competition we stuck them on a display board. The point she was making was immediately obvious. We must all work as a team in fulfilling our responsibilities as the hands and feet of Jesus. Otherwise, the outcome is not pretty. She explained that we will be working in Santa Brigida and Paulo Afonso this week and that all the parts of the body must come together as one team to achieve what God has for us this week.
We have never been in Paulo Afonso on a Saturday before and we are excited about the opportunity to spend the day here tomorrow. We will visit an English school in the morning, do street evangelism at a large street market in the afternoon and then participate in a 11 year anniversary celebration at one mission churches tomorrow night.
As always, we are greatly blessed by the members of Vida Nova who have joined us as translators and musicians. They are an extremely talented lot and it would be very difficult to do this without them.
Your prayers are much appreciated. Please keep praying that God keeps us healthy and that we are sensitive to the Holy Spirit as He leads us in our encounters with the people of Paulo Afonso.
:: Rob Allen
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