Carnivals Camp

Well the carnival is over now and life should get back to normal here in Brazil.
The time in our carnivals camp was great and very blessed. We had three youth that joined us from our church here in Barão. All of them were already part of our youth group but never made a decision for Jesus. After the four days of camp all of our youth and some from other churches have made the decision to follow Jesus. We are very happy to have three new young guys in our family.
The theme for the camp was "Ice Age". The thought behind it was that we are living in a spiritual Ice Age and that we as Christians don't do what God has called us to do. We became cold and maybe we are even immune towards the World. I took some pictures throughout the camp, you can check them out on my Picasa account (to get to the picture click here).
I'm not doing a 100% good. I have a slit cold and with that I can't do are help everywhere, especially not now with all this rain. Last Friday the 15th of February we had a heavy rain here in Barão/Floriano. It was so hard that even the streets where flooded. I took two video clips with my cellphone and posted them on my youtube canal, there you can see how it was (here you'll get to the first video clip and here to the second one).
Well what will I be doing now?? The upcoming time I'll be more around Barão. I will work together with the two boys that made a decision during the camp and help them in their spiritual life. I'll also be helping with the stuff that I was so far.
Beginning of March I'll be traveling with my parents to a city called Sento Sé (Bahia) to help out with a Congress that we will have there.

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Till then, I'll be helping out here in Barão and serving PróSERTÃO were ever I can.

I want to thank you for all your prayer and your interest. May God bless you.

Month of January

Yes, the month of January was once again a full month. In the beginning of the month I was with my parents and helped the a bit with the CBT (a basic theology course). On the 10th of January I went back to Barão to be part of a missions congress. During the congress a band from São Paulo lead the worship (On my youtube channel you can see two short video clips). I already wrote a bit about this congress so I don't want to spend to much time write more about it but I just want to say once more that it was a great congress and that it opened my eyes to a lot of new things.
After the congress I stayed for a few days here in Barão with Reifler's. But it didn't go to long till I got a call from an other swiss missionary to come up to Teresina to help him with a construction fro the PróSERTÃO. After talking with CLBI and my supervisor here in Brazil I got the permission to go to Teresina for one and a half week. So I didn't spent to much time here in Barão but more up in Teresina and at the Ranch with my parents. It was a great time and I could help them in many ways. But now I'm happy to be back in Barão so I can help the ministry here. This upcoming week Brazil celebrates Carnaval. This means that the churches have to organizes a retreat or camp to get the christians out of the cities. We too will be doing this and we will be joining two Baptist churches from Floriano. I'm exited for this retreat and for a long weekend even though it means a lot of work. I hope to that this time will be a great time and a time of blessing.

Ok. This was already January and a bit of what's to come in February. I wish you all the best and God's blessing for your life.