October 2011 News
CONTINENT CARE CONNECTION
For the past 4 years Continent of Great Cities has sponsored a spiritual renewal retreat-alternating years between men and women. This year Jerry attended-not as a worker but recipient of ministry, care and renewal. It was exactly what he needed and we will share with you next month some of the results of the transformational week there. For more than 15 years, beginning in Brasília, we have been leading and sponsoring spiritual formation-renewal retreats aimed principally at Brazilian leadership couples. The CGC retreat, in addition to being larger in scale and involving a bigger "ministry team" are helping to change the church culture and paradigm of what spiritual maturity means. Minister self-care and support is becoming main-stream in Brazil.
The 48 missionaries and the 15 caregivers who attended this year´s CCC in Atibaia, São Paulo
GLOBAL MISSION CONFERENCE
On October 16 we traveled to the US to participate in the Global Missions Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. We were invited to help teach three classes on Missionary Care. The first was on the “Therapists Role in Missionary Care”, the second on how “Seasoned and Ex-missionaries can help care for workers on the field” and the third was on how “Congregations can better plan for the care of their missionaries”. As you know, this is a subject that is dear to our hearts and a major part of our ministry here in Brazil. We pray that the sending churches will become more and more aware of the need to help their missionaries serve long term by caring for them physically, emotionally and spiritually during their time on the field and furloughs. We were encouraged to find many people becoming more interested in this vital aspect of missions.
FAMILY NEWS
During our 17 day trip to the US we spoke at the GMC, visited with Angela and Joel, spent 3 days with Gail´s mom and her husband in St. Louis, met with our missions contacts at Prestoncrest and traveled quickly to Abilene and Midland to see friends and advisors.
One of the highlights of the trip was co-preaching with Gordon Dabbs at our supporting congregation (Prestoncrest in Dallas). Gordon was a missionary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he and his wife Ila have been good friends and a great encouragement to us since they took the pulpit job at Prestoncrest.
We preached on forgiveness and took questions from the congregation by text-messaging. This is a subject that needs to be talked about more often. There were lots of good, hard questions to answer!
Sharing on forgiveness with Gordon Dabbs at Prestoncrest Church of Christ
Taking questions by text from the congregation.
PRAYER NEEDS:
1. As we go into the final stretch of 2011, we need prayers for stamina. It has been a very busy year and we have another month of travel to go before we recover and regroup during the holidays.
2. Please pray for our spiritual growth retreat in Campo Grande, Jerry´s class on Biblical Counseling at SerCris training school, our last Mentoring meeting of the year, a relationship building workshop with the Brasília leaders and evangelists, and Jerry´s trip to minister to several groups in Recife.
3. Angela, our daughter, is taking her finals for her master´s degree in Modern Languages and could use prayers for finishing well. This is the culmination of 3 years of studying and working. We are very proud of her!!
4. Kris is still teaching at Heritage Christian School in Kampala, Uganda. He will be coming home to spend a couple of weeks with us at Christmas. Please pray for his safe travel.
Thank you all for your love and care, for your generosity and your prayers. May our God grant you peace and hold you safe in His arms. We love you!!!
For the past 4 years Continent of Great Cities has sponsored a spiritual renewal retreat-alternating years between men and women. This year Jerry attended-not as a worker but recipient of ministry, care and renewal. It was exactly what he needed and we will share with you next month some of the results of the transformational week there. For more than 15 years, beginning in Brasília, we have been leading and sponsoring spiritual formation-renewal retreats aimed principally at Brazilian leadership couples. The CGC retreat, in addition to being larger in scale and involving a bigger "ministry team" are helping to change the church culture and paradigm of what spiritual maturity means. Minister self-care and support is becoming main-stream in Brazil.
The 48 missionaries and the 15 caregivers who attended this year´s CCC in Atibaia, São Paulo
GLOBAL MISSION CONFERENCE
On October 16 we traveled to the US to participate in the Global Missions Conference in Fort Worth, Texas. We were invited to help teach three classes on Missionary Care. The first was on the “Therapists Role in Missionary Care”, the second on how “Seasoned and Ex-missionaries can help care for workers on the field” and the third was on how “Congregations can better plan for the care of their missionaries”. As you know, this is a subject that is dear to our hearts and a major part of our ministry here in Brazil. We pray that the sending churches will become more and more aware of the need to help their missionaries serve long term by caring for them physically, emotionally and spiritually during their time on the field and furloughs. We were encouraged to find many people becoming more interested in this vital aspect of missions.
FAMILY NEWS
During our 17 day trip to the US we spoke at the GMC, visited with Angela and Joel, spent 3 days with Gail´s mom and her husband in St. Louis, met with our missions contacts at Prestoncrest and traveled quickly to Abilene and Midland to see friends and advisors.
One of the highlights of the trip was co-preaching with Gordon Dabbs at our supporting congregation (Prestoncrest in Dallas). Gordon was a missionary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he and his wife Ila have been good friends and a great encouragement to us since they took the pulpit job at Prestoncrest.
We preached on forgiveness and took questions from the congregation by text-messaging. This is a subject that needs to be talked about more often. There were lots of good, hard questions to answer!
Sharing on forgiveness with Gordon Dabbs at Prestoncrest Church of Christ
Taking questions by text from the congregation.
PRAYER NEEDS:
1. As we go into the final stretch of 2011, we need prayers for stamina. It has been a very busy year and we have another month of travel to go before we recover and regroup during the holidays.
2. Please pray for our spiritual growth retreat in Campo Grande, Jerry´s class on Biblical Counseling at SerCris training school, our last Mentoring meeting of the year, a relationship building workshop with the Brasília leaders and evangelists, and Jerry´s trip to minister to several groups in Recife.
3. Angela, our daughter, is taking her finals for her master´s degree in Modern Languages and could use prayers for finishing well. This is the culmination of 3 years of studying and working. We are very proud of her!!
4. Kris is still teaching at Heritage Christian School in Kampala, Uganda. He will be coming home to spend a couple of weeks with us at Christmas. Please pray for his safe travel.
Thank you all for your love and care, for your generosity and your prayers. May our God grant you peace and hold you safe in His arms. We love you!!!
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