"Life choices"

Another good busy week this week which was great. We're back into our schools and everything we were doing this week was leading up to a new project that we were starting this weekend with the teens in the church called "escolhas da vida" (which means "life choices"). We're going to be taking the teens out of church for the next 6 weeks and running different "services" about things from drugs to difficult times in life. but I'll get back to that. 

Escolhas da vida

So we were back in both schools this week. Back for the first time in Maia Neto this tuesday which was fantastic. All the kids seemed to have missed us and were asking about us to their teaches which was great. We then had a chance to talk to the directors to see what we're going to be doing for the next few months with them. As usual we're going to be our "bible story time" with them but instead of 3 classes we're just going to be doing 1 (either music or break dancing). Which we're really excited about. We also might be getting a classroom in the afternoon which would give us a better connections with the afternoon kids. 

 As usual we had our youth group, which as I said last week, God continues to pour himself out upon us in those times. We're all have real encounters with God there and we are getting the chance to not only show the teens how to meet with him but we're learning how to as well. 

Friday we were back in Floca again. We went in early for the morning break time, just to hang out with the guys and to hand out some invites for our events on the weekend. It's great fun to get the chance to just make relationships people and show them Jesus love and to talk about how he loves them. We then came back in the afternoon and did the same thing. In the afternoon I got to hang out with 2 guys who were playing guitar. one of the guys was heading to Sao Paulo the next day to live there and it was great just being able to jam with him. 
Friday night we then went to one of our teams house and eat "breakfast food" (bacon, eggs, pancakes etc) and watched a movie because my team had decided to bless me this month.  They prayed with me and then we watched a funny, (but very stupid) movie. 

On saturday was when to big event kicked off. The whole project is based around the christian movie "how to save a life" so on Saturday we hosted a big event in the church were we watched with movie. Was really good movie and a lot of the kids from the schools and some more new guys came which was awesome. 
Then on Sunday we had our first real service thingy. I was in charge of sound and the project which was a little bit stressful but worked okay. We just had a clip from the movie and then got into groups to talk about the topic for the week, which was "trusting God in difficult situations". I'm in charge of a group which I would really appreciate some prayer for, because I find small groups difficult to lead sometimes. 

me leading the small group

This has been a really great busy week but I would like to take the opportunity to lift up my friend David ross to you all to pray for. He is in upper sixth in school and on Thursday he got in an accident in rugby and dislocated his neck. He's a close friend and his brother Neil is one of my oldest friends so please lift him and the whole family up to God in prayer. Pray for God's healing but also pray that they would all feel God's presence in the midst of this really difficult situation. 




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