Winding down

Our time here is coming to a quick end! We head back for the United States on Thursday morning! Our time has gone quick at times, slow at others, but we are about ready to be home! It has been such a learning, challenging, and growing time in our lives. We are so thankful for being down here. Wonderful to see God working. We have three more days of hard work and then get to go home. This week is English Camp which is basically a full day of VBS for the school children that we plan out. It should be lots of fun, games, singing, and learning! Pray for Paul as he gets to speak to the children about faith, grace, and obedience.

We successfully finished the school semester two weeks ago and were able to enjoy some down time this last week. They had an end of the year program all about the World Cup this last Wednesday! They introduced all the teams playing and had lots of choreographed songs. It was a neat production. They put a lot of effort into decorating the school and it looked great. Hopefully we will get some photos up once we get back to the States.

We have been watching all of the Brazil and US games. I have said that it is more fun to watch the United States play because Brazil has been winning so easily. The United States make the games exciting! :) You never know what's gonna happen, especially with that one goal in the last minutes of the Algeria game. Anyway, sad to see the United States are out, but we are still proud of them!

There are, I think, 14 Americans here now. Their reasons for coming range from putting on a conference on counseling, to planting a church in Recife, to helping with English Camp and Medical Missions, and to encourage the Brazilians in some other church planting opportunities. It is really nice having so many people to talk to and share with. Plus we now get three meals a day so Paul and I feel pampered after being used to only have lunch cooked for us. We have had some great discussions with our new friends!

Pray for us as we finish up our time here. Pray for English Camp that the students would hear and receive the gospel spoken at camp and that we can show them the love of Christ. Pray for our safe travels home and for God's provision as we look for employment. And if it be God's will, pray that we are allowed to bring Bencao (our puppy) home with us.

Thank you all so much for your prayers and financial support, it means so much to us. May God be praised as he works through you and us to reveal his grace and glory.