After some six weeks away in the US, the Missus and I will return home Wednesday night and arrive at our little abode by noon Thursday, Lord permitting. A prayer for safety and security would be appreciated.
The rental car, which we had for a month, touched 14 states and racked up almost 3500 miles. We saw family, friends, congregations, and lots of beautiful scenery. We avoided snow and most precipitation, but felt some temperatures that caused our tropics-adapted bodies to shiver.
While we’ve been gone, the work continued and progressed. The Northside congregation in SJCampos met, visitors appeared, non-Christians were taught, the saints were edified. The process to create a legal association for publishing and teaching went forward. From the US, I wrote a meditation every day in Portuguese for our people, but others took care of everything else.
It’s a joy to know that dedicated and capable brothers and sisters in Christ serve the Lord from the heart, working to fulfill the mission of salvation.
While here, a couple of possibilities of fellowship in the gospel appeared spontaneously, one monthly, another one-time. We’ll see if those come about.
For quite some time, we had ceased asking for help for our work. The Lord has caused others to see the worthiness of our work and pitch in. We’re grateful for that.
I mention all this to you here on Forthright because it also is a extension of what we do, as our service of teaching the gospel and growing in the Spirit of God.
Prayers for Forthright are also appreciated. It’s been online since 1997 or so, when the web became a thing for normal people. We want to continue, not out of habit, but out of love for the Lord and for you.
Whether above or below the Equator, in Portuguese or English, and regardless of the time zone or season of year, the gospel is still God’s power to save and the reason we glorify and thank him for folding us into his will and work.
Photo: The editor with Paulo Cesar and Pedro Augusto, two fine workers in SJCampos. Paulo owns an exercise gym; Pedro is a nurse technician who works in an ICU.
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