Mission Trip, Waterfalls, and 2 Week Terms

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If you go to the above link, you can see some of what I've been doing the last couple weeks of silence! We went on a mission trip to Rondon. We assisted a small church in a large evangelistic outreach event including music, drama, and dance. Some 30 people got saved! It was a wonderful time of celebration. While there we also did work projects for the church and some of its members.

Overall it was an interesting trip: two of our staff got detained by the police almost thrown in jail, and one was almost deported; Pastor Chet's son was sleeping walking in the middle of the night and he fell through a roof; our bus caught on fire while we were eating lunch; and of course, in the middle of this we watched that fateful game where Holland beat Brazil. There was much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then we facilitated a "mini Patmos" for a small group of youth from the church. It was very impactful. Overall it was a good trip, but of course we got back into madness here. Right now we have three terms going: 3 month, 1 month, and 2 week. The 2 Week term has 10 Brazilian students. This is the group I am working with and I love them! Please pray for their hearts to be open and determined to move forward in change. We are pushing them hard.

At the end of our mission trip we went to my new favorite place on earth (or close to it), Foz do Iguacu. Check out the pictures on Allison's blog. I am in one ;) It is mind blowing there and I love it!!!