This week on Monday I was able to hang out with the other guys on the team and go to the gym with them. It's really cool because one of the guys, Jared, is doing like workout plans for me so I know what I'm doing there when I go. Was also able to try and start mentoring with one of the guy from the youth from the church. His name is Renator and he is 13 years old. We're just getting started off in terms of mentoring and there is still a little bit of a language barrier so I would really appreciate some prayer for that.
Tuesday we got to spend our second full day in the new school Maia Neto. This school has kids that our a little bit young (i.e. in the morning 7-12 and and in the afternoon 12-16). So we went to the school in the morning and just hung put with the kids in their break time and then we went back to the church to wait for the afternoon. What was really cool was at about 2 we got a phonecall from the head teacher of the morning saying "we're missing 2 teachers could you guys come and fill in?". So we suited up like super heros and had the opportunity to tecaher like 4 classes about their worth in Christ (and i was able to tell the parable of the talents in Portuguese!). Tuesday night I got to have my second lesson in Capoeira which is a brazilian fighting dance (youtube it, its really cool). I'm picking it up a lot slower than the rest but it's really good exercise and really good fun.
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| This a capoeira (needless to say i can't do that yet) |
On Wednesday we had the morning off so went to the gym with the guys again (looks like I'll be able to do that Monday Tuesday Wednesday exercise from now on) and then spent the day sorting lessons out for next week and for Friday. As usual we had our youth group on that night as well (and a girl from the new school came which was amazing).
Thursday was another day of administration so just got more things sorted for coming events and for lessons in the schools.
Friday was another day in the school (Floca) but it wasn't like any we've had before. In the morning lessons we were teaching on "perseverance". We taught them a little bit about the meaning behind it and what it means for our every days lives. Then the we ave them like a reflection time at the end. We turned off the light, I started playing guitar and told them to think about something in their lives that they need to persevere through and when they had, come up to one of the team to receive a card (that said "never give up") and some prayer. We had about 5 classes throughout the morning and altogether about 30 people were in tears at this stage and as my team leader says "it's like sports, if the other person's crying you know you've won". It's amazing to see how much the spirit can move in places like this when we give him the space to do it.
Saturday we went to a slum (favela) with the youth group to do a little bit of a story and to love them. So we did the story of Joseph for the kids and then asked the kids if they could take us to their family so we could pray with them. Was my first time in a favela but God did some wonderful things (like a really sick little girl being healed). I really feel that God calls us to love those that have so little. I believe that is true worship.
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| The favela |
It has been another wonderful week in God's presence learning more and doing more. Please just continue to pray for all of these ministries. I know that without the prayers at home I can accomplish very little here.
Obrigado por lendo e por sua oração!
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