Bits March

Church anniversary month this past month! We celebrated four years of having an organized church in Arcoverde with a ministry fair and some cake. The church is starting to get some of the pre-covid momentum back which would be great! One of our main objectives this year has been to develop our leadership and we have been working with a group that will be able to take growing responsibilities. Sometime soon we are planning on hiring one of them so that he can stay with the church, join ministry, help with administration as well as receive training in ministry. He is a very capable guy and we are excited. He will help with the church in Tupanatinga as well during our furlough.

The construction in Tupanatinga is in the final stages for our main meeting building. The other phases are happening simultaneously. As we do this we are seeing that it would be easiest to do the third phase now rather than cover the building which would cost a lot and then uncover it later. We have enough money to keep going for a little more time, but not much. Help! If God leads of course. We have been very blessed on the project up to this point. We started it by using saved up ministry funds and then several generous gifts that really got us going. Then we had one main generous donor for the second phase that really allowed us to purchase great material and build it right the first time. As much as I have been a tight wad in life, cutting corners in construction is not good in the long run! We have a do it right the first time philosophy which is more expensive on the front end but more efficient in the long run. 

My main project for this month was building a playground. We had a little mission trip in the begining of the month and put the structure up. Then each week since I would take another person to continue to work on it. Sarah and Sarah R. painted it last week and now there are just a few more details to finish. The slides are supposed to be delivered on Friday! While I was sleeping some nights in Tupanatinga to work on the playground, I scheduled our men’s study which is normally online. We had a good group of guys present as we study how to process life biblically. We are over halfway through it and I plan to continue it this month.  

Sarah continues to grind out her dissertation as well as counseling several women and then leading a couple small groups. We have had conversations with people within our own church as well. On April 9 we are putting together a marriage workshop for about five hours. The prep for it is intense! Pray God uses this study in the life of the church to strengthen our family units. 

Evie with her youth group and
leader (Sarah Rogers)

Thanks for all your prayers and support!

All for HIS glory,

David, Sarah, my nursery volunteer/babysitter who is a bit help during all these studies and our friendly last born that is a play leader for all her friends