Catch up time

What with all the problems accessing this blog, time has slipped away!  Been busy caring for garden and steadily harvesting two plantings of sweet corn, string beans, and waiting for the cantaloupes and small watermelons to ripen.  Squash are about over, my latest tactic to get to know our neighbors, as I took around some of the little yellow crook necked ones.  Ladies appreciated the gesture!  Is dry as a bone again with temperatures during past ten days over 100 every day, some days around 105.  So, will continue to water the front lawn and ignore back yard, full of weeds and native grasses, mowing both about every two weeks.

Then there's the project for AICEB churches in Brazil.  Was asked to prepare five Sunday school lessons on missions, based on the book of Philippians in the New Testament, all in my best Portuguese.  Submitted the project a couple of days ago (about thirty hours of study), made suggested corrections and now await editing by the folks who will soon publish the material for the churches.  Discovered that the Philippian church in Acts 16 and Paul's letter to the church ten years later contain interesting principles for missions:  the message of missions, the Gospel of Christ; the cost of missions, various difficulties and suffering; examples for doing missions, Paul, Jesus Christ, Timothy and Epaphroditus; & the means for doing missions, both divine and human.

In just four weeks we shall wing our way back to Brazil to the place we worked for many years.  God willing, t'will be a good visit of five and a half weeks, July 27 to September 4, teaching Biblical anthropology for a month at the Bible college as a volunteer.  Still must review material, do new reading, prepare lesson plans and assignments in coming weeks.  What a challenge after being gone for over two years!  With passports, e-tickets, and mosquito net in hand, away we go, trusting the Lord to make us a blessing among a people that have blessed us so much in the past.  Send a comment if you want to wish us well as we enjoy our friends, Brazilian coffee, açai, guaraná, galeto, farinha & afternoon naps in a colorful hammock!