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Acampamento Kids!

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The Youth Team from High Road Academy / City Life Church helped Deanna and the team here host a Kid’s Camp this week-end.
Eliel bought new hats for the band.
Daisy made some very cool children’s games while she was at our house a few weeks ago. We had stations, late Friday, with different games at each station.
The presence of God was visible on some of the kids during the ministry time after the Friday night worship service.
They all went home for the night, and were back for a hot-chocolate-bread-and-butter breakfast at 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

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Scott Blunier

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We moved to Brazil because Luke Huber, the founder of PAZ Mission, invited us. This was back in about 1993 or so. We lived with other PAZ missionaries in Santarem for our first two years here, learning the language and starting to learn about Brazilian culture. Scott and Aldine were our neighbours then. They had been missionaries about two years at that time, and have children about the same age as ours. What a pleasure to spend an evening together here in Marabá. Scott is travelling with his friend Matt, another missionary, to Southern Brazil, to deliver a car.
Our friends at PAZ mission, including the Huber and Hrubik families, continue to be among the best examples we know of missionary families, whose children are also becoming great missionaries and Christian leaders. Their council to us in our first years in Brazil continues to bless us, and we do what we can to pass this family blessing on to the missionaries who have joined us in the Xingu Mission. http://www.projectamazon.org/
As I was thinking with Scott, back then Jim and Julie Brown had only been here 5 months. Bud and Suzanne came a year later. All these people are still missionaries, almost 20 years later, spread out across the Amazon.
http://www.projectamazon.org/missionaries/scott-and-aldine-blunier/

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Tres Poderes

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How do you plant churches? You just start doing it.
There are always many reasons why we cannot get started just yet. Things are not planned well. We do not have mature leaders. It will cost us money and time. Etc. And yet God’s church continues to grow. Our strategy is to cut the rope that secures our boat to the shore and to let God’s wind and currents direct us.
One of our key leaders has many friends in Tres Poderes. He lived there for awhile. City officials were giving away lots of land. We acquired two lots for  our church. Some guys went out and built a fence around the property and drove a stake into the ground with our name on it.
Tres Poderes is three hours from Marabá, on the road to Quatro Bocas. We drove out there this week. What is God’s plan for this church? We are not sure yet.

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High Road Team

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We are so pleased that High Road Academy has sent a team to Marabá. Deanna’s nephew Zach is on this team. Zach was born in Brazil, and lived here until he was 14. The group hit the ground running. They arrived at noon. That evening they ministered with testimonies and a drama at the Youth Service. Two ladies from our neighbourhood gave their hearts to Jesus at the alter call at the end of the service.
Thank you for all who prayed and gave to allow this team to come and encourage us!

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Interior Road

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How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!S)’>
8 They feast on the abundance of your house;U)’> of delights. | | | |
March 13, 2013, the team in Pacajá is breaking ground for their new building. The church-planting team is constructing a multi-purpose building which in which will be used for an English School, and where the church can start to meet. This is phase one of a larger project.

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Birthdays

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Little Emily turned one last week! This is a big deal here, and Cesar and Eliete did what they could to throw a special celebration.
Deborah, in Deanna’s girl’s group, turned 12. She wrote a thank-you letter. “When you hug me, I feel like I have value…I have never met such happy people…even if we have to move away I will never forget you…” plus she wrote about lessons she is learning from the Bible studies.

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Pacajá

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I had the privilege of going to the new Pacajá Church on Sunday. There was a middle-aged couple, a dad and his young son, a teen-ager, plus the four Wilsons, Ferreira and Fernanda and their two beautiful girls, and myself.
I was reminded of the words that John Wimber told a Canadian pastor, when a church was just starting up in Canada, “Enjoy this stage. It will not stay small for long.” These were also my thoughts, for this church-planting team. Ferreira and Fernanda were both beaming all through the service, and Keith and Marsha exuded joy and sincerity.

After the service Marsha brought out fresh corn cake, from their own corn. The day before they had a pomonha-making (special food made from fresh corn) party at their house. Next week is a big bar-be-que, after the soccer game, which is turning out to be a great way to connect with the community.

May God continue to bless them with grace and favor.


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Alpha

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Phil and Jen ran our second Alpha Course on Friday night. This time we were divided into two groups. We ate a very nice meal, prepared by Ivanildo and Monica, at two tables. We watched a half-hour video about Jesus, and then we met in our small groups. There were two questions: 1. Who do you think Jesus is? 2. If you could meet Jesus walking down the street, as a person, what question would you ask Him? Everyone was pretty open to share their views. The problem was more how to close the discussion time after about 45 minutes, which is a good problem.