full but fantastic!

We seem to be getting back into the way of things here in Brazil. Had a really busy week thing week but it was fantastic to be back in all of our schools again and doing what we're here to be doing. 

This Tuesday we were back in Maia Neto. As usual we taught a bible story to the little ones in the morning and followed that with a music class. Before the story I got the chance to sing to the  kids one of the songs that we sing in the church. One of the young girls started crying while as was singing, it really just showed what God was doing in that place. In the afternoon we've got the chance to teach the same programme that we're going to be teaching to the teens in church over the next few weeks. We're really excited about that opportunity and how God's going to use that in the lives of these kids.

We have been told from Pais global that we're going to have to do 8 hours of activity a day so on our days admin days we're going to be spending a lot of time in the office. As we have a full free wednesday and thursday we're even thinking about trying to get into another school which would be fantastic. 

As I've already said our youth group is seeing some amazing things happening. Just this week one of the guys had a sore leg (he was in real pain when walking). We all prayed for it and he was completely healed (he was jumping up and down to check). 

Friday we were then back into Floca with our morning classes starting up again. We were teaching this time on making goals for the year and had some really good opportunities to chat and pray with people. Then in the afternoon was the same as usual, just making new friends and building on relationships that we already have. 

heres a link to a video on the pais natal facebook page of an interview with one of the guys from the school and how we're affecting the lives of people there. 
Floca interview

Saturday we had a really full fantastic day of "holy spirit outreach stuff". We went into the house complex beside the church just going into people's housing talking and praying for people. We all split off and had some amazing stories of people being healled and people going were the holy spirit lead them. We've decided that we're going to try and do it at least twice a month because we loved it so much. Then Saturday night our team leader Ramin was speaking in the youth service so he asked me to lead the worship afterwards. I'm loving leading worship these days. I'm learning so much and leading in the spirit and letting him flow rather than me. I'm getting the chance to really administer the awareness of the presence of God in worship and a love it. 

Sunday we just our our project with the teens in church again. The sound stuff is still a bit of an issue but my small group this week was awesome. 

here's a link to the newsletter of this month if you would like a little more light reading on how we're doing out here as well. 
newletter


thanks for reading and bless you for your prayers
Mark