Anna,Alexandra and Adrienne started school back in August and they are doing great. It took a couple of months to get totally adapted and feel confortable with having "everything" new again. We are so amazed at how many friends they all have.

Recently we had Anna's 16th Birthday party here at home and she had 26 young people over. She is very involved with ministry. She is helping in the children ministry, youth, evangelism and worship. Anna has a big heart without a doubt.

Alexandra is also involved in evangelism and youth ministries. She loves to do mime, dance and laugh. Lots of people has told us that she reminds them of the Energizer bunny, well......that is who she is. Praise God for energetic people!

Adrienne is having a great time with her little Brazilian friends. She loves to speak Portuguese. I love her sense of humor and her wonderful attitude. Her favorite phrase is "I can do that!"

I'm posting the Christmas Play we had on Dic 13th.I had a great time organizing and working with these kids. Had several non christian families menbers attending and they loved it. Some of them expressed the desired of come back and visit the church. I truly enjoyed seen the kids working hard on this, trying to ministry with all they can to reach out there friends and families. God did wonderful things throug these little ones lives!
On the same day we were celebrating one year anniversary in Brazil! Yay!

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It's been a long time since I wrote anything here and lots of things had happened since. As many of you know we moved to Sao Paulo city during the month of June after spending 5 months in a city located in the interior of the State for language school. When we got here we were placed in a missionary house that, to our surprise, needed a lot of work. So we spent the first five months working on making this house livable. We painted, replaced the 19 year old carpet, added counter-tops to the kitchen........... Needless to say, that when we finished we were elated. I got to tell you, on a very positive note, that we learned a lot of new vocabulary just because we had to deal with all the workers. In a way it was lots of fun.

Meanwhile we were visiting different churches in town, getting to know many pastors and leaders in this huge city of Sao Paulo. We teamed up with a couple of pastors who have the vision and desire to start new churches. Please pray for Luiz and Isaias. They are wonderful men of God. Steve is working on the final details for launching this project. Please pray for:


1. For The new church planting project in Vila Mariana.
2. For more Baptist partners with a desire to plant more churches to reach out the middle and upper middle class of Sao Paulo.
3. Some teams for 2010. We would like to have at least 4 teams come to help over the course of the year. We have a couple already lined, up for the months of June and perhaps August.
4. For our family physical health, as well as our spiritual health.
5. Pray that we can mobilize Christians, on both sides of the ocean, to help in fulfilling the Great Commission here in Sao Paulo!!!


Thank you so much for everyone that is part of this ministry we could not be here if it was not for your continued support and prayers.God is good!

Last week we had a couple of days off and went to the beach. I had almost forgotten how relaxing it was walking on the sand with the water splashing on your feet. We truly enjoyed our time and had great fun. Adrienne found a couple of sand dollars and even some crabs!

It definitely was a nice break from language school. Portuguese is coming along well, to the point that we feel comfortable with it. We even understand TV in Portuguese YAY!!! We are getting a proficiency test later this month which will really help us to know where we are, what we still need to work on and where we are headed.

I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Easter! I'll think we'll all be missing the Sunday service this weekend, and being with family and friends back in the states.
Enjoy your time this week as we celebrate the VICTORY we have in Christ!

Our neighbors Thais and Letizia, the two girls in the picture, are so wonderful. hey brought us a "passion fruit" mousse welcoming us to Brazil. They had just learned in their English class that this is what American's do when someone moves into their community. We are baking a cake for them!! We are forming a nice relationship with them. They spent over an hour at home talking about everything. Very sweet!!!

Youth Group is a very important aspect in our everyday life. We have a couple of teenage daughters that are very involved in the youth group. Anna just taught her first Bible study last Friday in Portuguese, we are so proud of her! Her little sister Adrienne keeps saying... GO ANNA GO!!!






Steve and I had the chance to attend a couple of conferences during the month of February. They were great times of being able to meet fellow missionaries here in Brazil and learn more about their ministries.

Another occurrence during this past month was the holiday they call "Carnival". This four-day, pre-lent spectacle is a mixture of a Roman Catholicism Holiday and African Celebration. It quickly evolved into a massive celebration of indulgences - one last gasp of music, food, alcohol, and sex before Lent - before the 40 days of personal reflection, abstinence, and fasting until Easter (not exactly what the Church probably had in mind). 40 days of purging sins, preceded by a week filled with virtually every known sin. The word itself comes from Latin, "Carne Vale" or "Farewell to the Flesh".

We feel we are learning and adapting more and more everyday as we learn the language and the culture. It's such a privileged to be here in Brazil taking the good news to Brazilians!.

I Just realized I haven't posted anything for over twenty days or so. My..... It's been busy!!!
Moving to another country, learning another language, adapting to that culture, making sure your kids' needs are taking care of etc... IT'S NOT an easy thing to do. I read this verse in Romans 8:28 so many times and always strengthens and assures me that good things, bad things, neutral things work together for our good. Like the verse says "We know" that's certainty.

Also in Psalm 119:165, "Those who love You and Your law have great peace and nothing causes them to stumble." It doesn't matter what goes wrong, you know you're loved.
It doesn't matter what changes, you know you're loved and you're secure in that love.
So, loving God is basically defined as an attitude toward God that meditates on His glory, that trusts in His power and that secures the peace of the soul. What an awesome promise!!