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Monday evening, March 30, 2009
Good grief! Where’d March go? Better make one more entry before it
all ends.
Sue just left for church and ESL classes, and I’ll head over there
later for a discipleship.
We hit four banks this morning before going
out to lunch! Don’t worry. It’s
good. It was all for the church! The
most complicated bank was Banco do Brasil, to get funds released that
had been sent down by the mission back the beginning of the month. According to the people we spoke with at the
bank, that money may reach our church account by the end of this week.
We’ll see.
These
past few days were kind of an indication of what the month has been
like. Friday is supposed to be our day off. (However, we usually don’t
know what to do on a “day off”.) Starting out early, we met for coffee
with friends from church. From there it
was a
visit with an engineer to consider building plans and costs – the
prices he quoted made my jaw drop! It is so expensive!
Then
we went out and looked at a couple buildings he is building – really
nice, and gave ideas of what to do with ours, whenever that time comes.
We stopped by the mall for lunch, and
while
wandering around afterward, Sue found a purse that she liked. By then
it was time to get home and clean up for the prayer vigil at church
that evening. We’re never sure how it will go when we have a vigil, but
again, there was a good group out and it was a great time together. Got
home and to bed about one in the morning.
Saturday was the start of Word of Life (WOL) weekend at church. Before
that though, the church calendar and newsletter for April had to be
printed since this would be the last Sunday before April. The group got
here and we had lunch together. There was rehearsal for the teens since
they are responsible for leading service any fifth Sunday of the month.
Rehearsal was followed by the youth
meeting, with the WOL missionaries leading. The kids had a great time! The missionaries were impressed with our kids
Bible knowledge and willingness to serve. “Service”
was the theme of the study that night, and everyone was involved with
the singing, study and skits. (pictures on our blog, http://spoelhof-brazilnuts.blogspot.com/) After snacks – you’ve got to feed kids - We
finally headed home about eleven-thirty.
Sunday morning came early. We did a Skype
webcam interview for a missionary conference at Jamestown Baptist in Michigan. Once
they got the sound and everything set on their end, it was kind of fun
and a pretty good interview. In the afternoon we were supposed to go
out to the Blazers’ chácara for Brazilian barbecue with the WOL
people,
but took a raincheck on that since I had to make up order of service
for that evening and some of the props the teens would use, and then
there was another rehearsal at five o’clock before the service.
It
was worth all the time and effort that went into everything. The teens
did an outstanding job on playing, leading singing, and even helping
the WOL missionary with illustrations during the message. It was all
very honoring to the Lord! And one person
raised
their hand for salvation at the close of the service. The WOL team left
after the service, and we headed back home. We ended the day, with a
bowl of popcorn and a Snickers bar, watching Jumper!
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