Switzerland

It's a long time ago since the last post. I'm already a month in Switzerland. My parents and I left Brazil on May 6th and arrived on May 7th in Switzerland. For me this flight had something unique, for the first time in my life I celebrated my birthday over the Atlantic.
The week after my arriving I already started work. I have to opportunity to work for the shop where I did my apprenticeship. This way I can get all the money together to finish my studies in Canada. It is a gift of God and his providence that I have work for the whole summer. It is great how God looks after each detail in my life.
I already have my flight booked to Canada. I'll be arriving in Calgary on the 20th of August. Right now I'm in the waiting process for my study permit.


Review:
Here a quick review on my internship. It was a great year. I had the chance to experience, learn and to be challenged. I was in two main areas and a few side jobs involved. The first main area was the sports youth ministry in which I could learn a lot and also contribute. I'm convinced, that through sports we can reach today's youth and kids. I know that I still have a lot to learn in this area.
The second main area was the IT work for PróSERTÃO. Here I also had the chance to learn a lot from Simon. My job was to maintenance the PróSERTÃO homepage as well as to spread PróSERTÃO through the social networks.
The side jobs included small group work as well as divers small jobs in the local church.
Something that God was and still is teaching me is "patience" and "trust". This two things go well together. I need to trust that the Lord has the right plans for me and then I need to be patience that one time this plans will be realized.


So I think thats it. I finished my chapter in Brazil even though I'm still doing some little stuff for PróSERTÃO. I guess that in the next few weeks I'm not going to be posting that much anymore. If you have any questions or you want to hear more then just email me.


I want to thank you for you interest in my stories through out the last few months. May our LORD bless you richly.

Sertão Meeting

My last ministry trip here in Brazil is almost done. It was a blessed time in which we could learn a lot about the Sertão and the reality the people face here. The meeting was held in a way so that everybody had the chance to ask the speakers after their presentation and in that way each individual could learn more about her/his problems that they face in their ministry.
We had the chance to hear a lot of testimonies and their hard but blessed work in the Sertão. Beside the presentations we had the chance to connect with a lot of other organizations and in this way to win more partners so that all of us can reach the Sertão more efficient.
I thank you so much for your prayer, it was really a blessed time with a lot of people that have a heart for the Sertão.


Ps. The pictures will come soon.

My last trip

Well it's time. April 29th I'll be going on my last trip here in Brazil. I'll be going going first to my parents place and from there we will leave on the 30th to Sousa.


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In Sousa we will be part of something like a congress. All sorts of speakers will have presentations about the reality we face here in the Sertão. It will be a very interesting week and I'm exited to see what this trip will bring. We will be back late afternoon or early evening of May 4th. So my parents and I have the 5th to finish packing and getting ready for our trip to Switzerland on the 6th of May. So as you can see there is still a lot of traveling ahead of me, which I really like.
The last few days here with the Reifler family was good. I didn't have that much to do anymore, which was good. In this way I had the chance to pack my stuff and say goodbye to people here. It was a great year and I'm really glad that I had the chance to serve here in Barão.
Well I think that's it. Maybe I'll blog a last post before I leave to Switzerland, if that's not possible my next post will come from Switzerland.
Please check out my prayer request before you close this site. I thank you so much for all your support.

The last few weeks

Sorry, sorry. I have't blogged for awhile and I'm so sorry about that.
Well, the conference was very good but too it was very tiring. I got asked to lead the kids program during the conference which I ended up doing. I had help from two german interns, which I really appreciated. We just had five kids but we had a lot of fun. (Here some Pictures, us having fun in the pool)


This was the road we took to go to the conference. We drove all of this in one day.


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After the conference we had a missions congress in Teresina. For this congress we had speakers from all over Brazil. My task was it to take care of the multimedia during the congress, this would include to take care of the bands and their wishes as well as prepare for each night the powerpoint presentation. Beside that I was also responsible for the presentations of the speakers. I loved what I did and it went mostly well. The congress wasn't that good attended but beside that it was very good. All the messages and the lectures where great. Everybody that wasn't there just missed something.

Well after the congress I got asked to stay for two more days in Teresina to meet with a web designer. The mission PróSERTÃO got to their limits with the website they have now, so they need a new one. But the web designer didn't show up. So I guess that PróSERTÃO has to wait a bit more with their new website.

On April 16th I finally got back to Barão. I'm staying here till April 29th. Then I'll be traveling to an other congress in Souza, PR and from their I'll be traveling to Switzerland. I'll post later something about this congress in Souza.

So, I think you are up to date again. I thank you so much for your interest.

Trip to the amazon area

I totally forgot to write about my trip up to the amazon area. Well I'll be leaving today and be traveling for the next two days. I'll be traveling for around 1000km this next two days. I'll be attending the annual conference of the mission up there. Please pray for safe travels. Further information I'll post shortly.

Motorbike tour - Picures

Here is now the link to the long promised pictures about our motorbike tour that we had in February

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Trip to Sento Sé

Well now I'm back from my trip to Sento Sé, BA. The trip began for me in Floriano and went till Remanso and from there to Sento Sé.

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How I mentioned it a few weeks earlier I went with PróSERTÃO to Sento Sé to help out at a Congress to train leaders that would work in the area of kids ministry.
We had a good and save trip. Till Remanso we drove with our car and from Remanso to Sento Sé we had to take a boat across the river.
The Congress was a success. We had around 50 leaders or people that wanted to be trained in it. We had the chance to teach a lot to them. The local Pastor wants now to start or improve the kids ministry and use all the knowledge that this leaders have now.
In this region it is really dry, they are now in the rainy season but it didn't rain since January. The river or better the dam is really low. You can see now the water towers from the old city that got flooded as a consequence of the dam. A lot of trucks come to the river to get water to deliver it to the villiges in the interior of the country that are suffering because of the lack of water.

Here are some pictures from the Congress as well as from this dryness.

Now I have a lot of work to do till the end of March. I have two assignments that I have to send to CLBI. One is a research project involving the drug problems here in Barão and the other is a learning project involving the soccer school. These means that I have a lot of work before me. 

I thank you very much for your support in prayer.