Another Newsletter in the chute.  I always feel a sense of accomplishment.  We are doing well, thank-you for your prayers.  I love you all!!!

Marie

Attached is the latest newsletter.

Hello All, It's been a while since we put a newsletter together and I am really pleased with this one. I always feel so happy to have a newsletter completed. I pray that you are all well and prospering spiritually in this new year. God Bless you always! May He receive all the glory for all that we do. Marie

Attached is our newsletter for September.

See our complete newsletter below.

It’s “winter” here again and the winds and the rains have picked up. Some evenings the wind is blowing so hard that the rain just comes in horizontally. (It’s a lot like spring in Lubbock – except it’s a blinding rain and not red New Mexico sand. I always get a kick out of seeing the Brazilians huddled together for warmth at the bus stops with their down jackets and umbrellas. It gives me some secret pleasure to be able to wear shorts and a t-shirt. I mean come on, its 72 degrees!

Read more in the attached PDF.

Open House...

Funny how things don’t always turn out the way that you imagined. In our January letter to you I shared about the group of people that met in Dona Nilza’s house. So full of hope and so full of people.

Well, in February they have this little holiday here called Carnival… you may have heard of it. Anyway I think it’s actually the biggest celebration that happens in the whole world. It’s a nationwide party that starts on a Friday afternoon and ends the following Wednesday at 6 in the morning. Ash Wednesday in fact, but that’s another story. Lots of drinking and dancing, street parties, loud music and of course as the name implies, it’s a party of the “freeing of the flesh”. Not that I’m judging them. But I do grieve. Sinners sin… it’s their job description.