Bits June

Lunch at the new church in Tup!

Friday night, July 1st we plan on using our new building in Tupanatinga for the first time! We had a long day of work today (Thursday) and are pretty close to ready for tomorrow night. It has and still is a battle to get some of the workers to come out. That has been a little sad, but par for the course. We are really excited to get in and use some much more space. With time we will be able to use more of it, but for now we will be happy with what we do have. 

Baby Jade and mom 
Shayenne

On Tuesday afternoon we had a couple over who we had done premarital counseling with before they got married and had a child less than a year after their wedding. Sunday night he said he missed meeting with us and our time together. As we set things up for Tuesday we both wondered what we needed to talk about. Lately it seems like we just put out fires and that takes it’s tolls. Edson and Shayenne arrived and said they didn’t have any problems we needed to talk about. Their life is going smoothly and they have been using some teaching from the church to really help (they mentioned “attack the problem, not the person”). They expressed willingness to help more often and already are more and more involved. What a blessing our time together was and one plan for our return to Brazil will be the same kind of meetings in which we just see how families are over a cup of coffee or tea.

Evelyn is going strong on her study for 7-10 year old girls using the book “lies that little girls believe”. The girls have been faithful and even done their homework! We are grateful for Evie’s willingness to serve in this way and the adults who here her teaching all say how well she does. 

Arcoverde women's study

Sarah did a technology study this month for her dissertation. She had two groups, one from Arcoverde and one from Tupanatinga. They both finished in the last week and the study was a great success! The ten women learned biblical principles about technology and learned enough to where each of them seems to have changed how they manage their phones and social media. Sarah is now writing the conclusion to her dissertation while most of the work is being translated and she should be able to turn it in soon, which will mean the end of her four years of work on her master’s degree. She is scheduled to formally graduate in October! 

Tupanatinga women's study

So July is here and July is the month our furlough starts. We leave Brazil July 23 and the girls start school August 10 at Oakwood Christian Academy in Chickamauga, Georgia (outskirts of Chattanooga, TN). We have a good bit of meetings scheduled already. We shouldn’t need to raise too much monthly support. We plan on heading back to Brazil after the school year. Please pray as we are in the final prep for leaving a couple of churches in Brazil. Fortunately we have our coworkers Roger and Marcy in Arcoverde. We also have José from the church in Arcoverde who will be helping out quite a bit with Tupanatinga. Pray for him as he is mentored by Roger. 

Thanks for your love and prayers!

All for HIS glory!

David, Sarah, teacher Evelyn and faithful student Anna Claire who is enjoying the study with her friends