Out and About in the City

Last week we went to Fan Fest to share with people about human trafficking, and share with people or pray for them as we were led to do.

 This weekend I was able to go to the house of prayer that is going on during World Cup. It was soo good. :) Reminded me of Gateway.

 

Beautiful Boa Viagem-in Recife

 This weekend we went to a large park in the city and drew a crowd through dance, and drama, and then shared Jesus with them. As were were there and the group was dancing and proclaiming Jesus through the songs I thought about what we were doing was having an impact in the spiritual realm as well. God is so good.

World Cup Outreach

Monday we went to Olinda, a nearby city for intercession, outreach, and speaking out against human trafficking. It was a great time. One thing in particular that was so cool was that some people from our group felt like we should read scriptures in square where we were, so we did! We split up into groups and people were reading the book of Ephesians in three different languages out loud. God is so good, and his word does not return to him void! Gloria. :)

This picture is overlooking part of Olinda, and the skyscrapers in the distance is Recife.

We had a long trip to get to Olinda, it consisted of a bus, metro (subway), walking, bus, and more walking. :) On the subway our group broke out in song and dance, the video doesn't accurately portray the energy and volume involved, but its a glimpse. It was neat. :)

As you think about us please pray for us as we go out and share the light and message of God! :)

Brazil

I'm in Brazil!

 It has been a great start and good to be back.

World Cup started on Thursday. There are a lot of people here at the base during this time and we are spending our time going out into the city sharing with people about the problem of human trafficking, and ministering to people as the Lord leads. A typical day includes one group going out into the surrounding community or city for the morning and the second group going out in the afternoon to different areas around the city- outside hotels, the beach, the bus station, and tourist spots. The group that stays on the base does cleaning, and cooking at the base etc.

These two pictures are of the World Cup stadium and surrounding neighborhood around the base. Last night was the first game here and we could hear the roar of the crowds from our apartment!

Getting Ready to Go

A New Chapter For My Blog :) 

Thus begins a new chapter for my blog. Same country, same person going, different role and time frame. Same passion to share God's love and hope with others, and to work with children at risk.

I am almost ready to go back to Brazil, I need a visa yet. Please pray with me that it will come through soon!

Recife, Brazil

 Thanks for reading my blog!

Back in the US

Hello all! I've been back in the US for just over a week ago, which many of you may very well know that because you've seen me in the past week. :)

I do not have pictures to share of graduation, but we had a nice ceremony with testimonies, worship, laughs, and handing out of certificate of graduation from DTS. Then we celebrated with food, fun, and dancing....Latin Americans love to dance! :)

Just another short story of an impactful experience from Brazil. The day before I left Brazil I accompanied one of the guys who is a part of the street ministry team to go into Recife and do some house visits. This was the first time that I went along for a house visit, and it was quite an experience to go into one of the slums, walk through the side streets that are only wide enough to walk on, and arrive at one of the last houses which was built on the edge of the river. It was a very poor looking home by far, and was filled with the smell of smoke. We visited the adults and two children living in that very small shack-like home. It was heart-breaking to see the circumstances that they are living in. We also visited some other families, and also went to see an area of slums that had accidently burned down recently and left a hundred families without their homes. YWAM works with building relationships with the kids on the streets, the kids' families, and many more people who they meet as they are in the slums doing house visits.

Please continue to pray as I seek direction from God for the future.

Back in Brazil

Hello all! Late Tuesday night our team arrived back in Brazil. Now we are doing some wrap up and preparing for graduation on Saturday. I just give a quick overview of our time on outreach in New Zealand and Samoa, and hopefully can share more in person when I get back to the States.

NEW ZEALAND

In New Zealand we worked alongside Life Church.

 We also went to a few schools. In the elementary school we did some presentations and dances.

We also helped out with their "fun Friday"




We helped out at Life church's building, which is not ready yet to hold services, they currently rent a high school auditorium for their services.

Organizing at the church warehouse

Gabi and I stayed with three different host families during our time in New Zealand. Each experience was very different and we enjoyed getting to know different people and ministering to them too. We were also so blessed by them!


Two afternoons we went to an elderly couple's house to help out with some sanding, painting, and cleaning. I also was able to spend some time chatting and listening to the lady share about different experiences and her family. It was a good time.
(The guy in this picture is a guy from the church who worked alot with our team)

We went to some other churches as well to do some presentations and share testimonies.

Sui and me, one of the girls from Life Church. We had fun getting to know people from the church! :)

SAMOA

In Samoa we spent alot of time with Mati's (our Recife YWAM base leader) family. We stayed at one sister's family's house, and spent time at two other sister's families' houses. We had a good time getting to know his family, and ministering to them.

Beautiful Samoa
 
 
Spending time with our host family
 

We went to a preschool for three days. It was a drastically different experience that working in preschool in the States. It was a neat experience too and we enjoyed spending time with the children!
 

Tupe and me
Tupe is mostly blind. Her mom and her shared a bit of her testimony with us, which I can share sometime, just not in this post. Please pray for healing for her


learning how to make Samoan food (this picture gives a good idea of a typical Samoan kitchen)
 

Tala, one of Mati's nephews who spent alot of time with our team. Our team spent some time at his family's house too and the guys dug a hole for the septic tank for the bathroom. Currently they live in a wall-less house, with an open kitchen, open shower, and enclosed bathroom. One of our goals was to work on the construction of an enclosed shower and bathroom. Eventually hopefully they will be able to build some enclosed bedrooms too. (In this picture he is grating coconut for some typical Samoan food)


We enjoying a meal at Tala's family's house...Samoan style.


This is a picture of the other house where we helped out a little with construction. They hired some builders to do most of the construction and we basically just helped carry rocks for the foundation of the two bedrooms that they are building behind this open house.


 

One night we took two of the teenage girls from our host family to McDonalds to get out of the house, enjoy some ice cream, and have some discipleship time.

Another glimpse of beautiful Samoa. We took a vacation day to spend some time at the beach and see some of the gorgeous scenery of Samoa.


Thank you for all your prayers, and support!

Samoa

 Beautiful Samoa. This gorgeous waterfront is just a few minutes walk away from the site where we´ll be doing construction.

 

 

Some of the family we are staying with here

 

Some crazy foreigner....lol, with another Family member

 

yeay tropical fruit!

 

Beautiful scenery!

 

 hanging out with kids