São Paulo Baptist Church has been a true blessing to us. Since the Gospel Day and Evangelistic Conference, we have been making several very specific "follow-up" visits, hoping to get people to "follow Christ". Time is such an important element in all of this. We have to patiently work with people.

A new family has joined the church--well, at least, started attending faithfully. The idea of "membership" here is still a very new concept, as we are still simply laying down the principles of Christ. Please pray for this family: Hilário, Silvana, Santiago and Hector. This is the only complete family attending the church, and it is a tremendous blessing to have them! We have partial contact with a couple other complete families, but only the mother (and sometimes children) attend the services regularly.

Last night, two men came, who used to come more regularly, but for several months have missed the services. One of them raised his hand at the end, and prayed the prayer of salvation. His name is Elias. The other is Joabson. Please pray for both of these.

I had some great visits with three different gals: Sandra, Jéssyca and Raquel. The first hasn't been to services for some time, but her daughter had pneumonia, which brought me to visiting her in the hospital. This encouraged her mother, and both were in church this Sunday! Jéssyca and Raquel are cousins. The first is 17, the second is 15. They are both very smart girls, and have shown good interest in the things of God, but they are very drawn to the world, and need much special attention. They admit their faults. Both are now expressing more interest in baptism. Please pray for them.  

Currently, we are covering up the roof tiles and beams with a tarp type material (only thicker), to brighten up the church and hid the electric wiring. We have some hired labor doing this, but they have not been entirely trustworthy. This is difficult for a number of reasons, so please pray. It will be nice to have this phase of the work completed!

God bless and thank you for praying!

-- John

Thank you for your continued prayers. God blessed our first youth meeting. Two churches joined ours for a time of fellowship, food, games, singing and preaching. I have been particularly burdened to expose our young people to other quality young people, to give them a sense of what "Christian youth" are like and to preach to them against living a double life. I was able to do all this at the youth meeting.

They told me afterward that they loved the meeting and wonder why we don't do one every month. 

Please pray for these young...