Mão de Ouro came to visit me at lunch time this week.
Some of you have prayed for Mão de Ouro. He helped us develop the Mission Property for many years. Then he lost his job with the city, as their backhoe operator. He went through a long dark season. He had been drinking, and making back choices. His wife of twenty years left him. He lost power to his house, and he could not get work. His son will not talk to him, though his two daughters still come to visit. I started doing a Discovery Group study with him.He got a backhoe job again some weeks ago. This week he came to visit us, and he wanted a stack of Bibles to hand out to his friends. He is starting to be a missionary. Even though he has never come to church for as long as I have known him, he considers himself one of us. “I’m from Igreja da Vinha.” Please keep praying for Mão de Ouro. His real name is Edson.

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
⁹ Do not be like the horse or the mule,
    which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle
    or they will not come to you.
¹⁰ Many are the woes of the wicked,
    but the Lord’s unfailing love
    surrounds the one who trusts in him.Psalm 32:8-10