"FROM THE OLD HOME PLACE "

Crazy run-around life ...

As you can observe, we’ve been gone for a while. These have been really busy days, but at the same time, days that have produced fruit for the Kingdom. In January, we participated in our annual mission meeting, and immediately afterwards, we went downtown São Paulo to perform a wedding for a young man of our church. Now they are active in the congregation, and promise great things for the future. Practically the whole month of February was invested in preparation for our Jubilee celebration of 50 years of FWB missions activity in Brazil. There were three multimedia presentations that had to be prepared, one of which will be presented at the West Virginia State FWB association meeting in June of this year. These require an amazing amount of time for each one. March has been a month of seeing all of this preparation time come together! Dave and Pat Franks returned for the Jubilee, and were honored in the Belo congregation where they had invested many years of hard but fruitful labor. Then all together in Campinas, we celebrated along with more than 450 who have been won to Christ. We also have baptized, dedicated babies, welcomed new members and married young couples. And then once in a while someone will ask, “Just what it is that missionaries do all day?” I tell our people here that I especially love to baptize, dedicate babies and do weddings because all three represent the beginning of new life! You want to know? I actually LOVE this crazy “run-around” life! If I didn’t have this, I would be bored out of my mind! Oh, by the way, what is it that YOU do all day?

 

JSturgill
Mar. 28, 2008
Vol.2 - No.2

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