I had to begin with this picture because it fits so well with the ending of a season and beginning of a new one which is where we are at right now.
A couple Sunday's ago we had a guest speaker from Ireland come to our church and our pastor asked me to be the translator. It was a bit of a challenge but I think it went well...
And on the base, last week started the King's Kids camp. We have about 40 kids and teens participating. It has been a great experience for them, especially since for most of them, this is their first time ever going to camp.
This is Mr. Zé…He is the only hired worker we have on the base and he takes care of pretty much everything farm related, cows, milking the cows, planting, weeding, cutting, making and fixing fences, you name it…this mighty man can do! What most people don't know is that he never learned to read or write, the shocking fact behind that is that his father did not allow him to go to school because "it was a waste of time" and there was lost of work to be done. Mr. Zé told me that he tried sneaking to school a few times but it always resulted in a severe betting from him father when he returned home.
He has quite a life story and we are lucky to have him working with us for the last 4 years.
Anyway, here are some of the happy campers in life to get lunch... and enjoying the afternoon off...
Here is one of the teams putting together a skit to present that evening. Jonas also participated one more time (this is his 4th Kings Kids camp!). He is the one sitting down in the picture below.
The kid with the ball below is Samuel. He is the son of Mateus who is our drug rehabilitation center director. Lucas is constantly at the feet of anyone with a ball!
A wonderful father-son moment...
Jonas leading his team in prayer for the presentation of the skit they prepared:
Practicing a choreography for the street evangelism that is part of every Kings Kids camp.
Last week we began another DTS, this time with 18 students from various parts of the country. They seem to be a lively bunch so far!
We had a welcome BBQ for them on the opening day.
Here we are back with some Kings Kids camp pictures, the reason they are mixed is because our DTS and Camp are happening at the same time this year…Makes the base quite full which is great!
More practice time…everybody off their feet!
Everyday the kids also learn to have a quite time in the word and also have some classroom time to learn valuable Christian principals.
I had to include some fun pictures of Lucas. He keeps us on our toes all day long (thank goodness for nap times)! He is very much a people person and loves to show off his musical talent!
We have a small zoo here in Goiania. It's about $1,00 to go in per person so today we had to run some errands in town and had to take Lucas so we spent some time introducing some of God's amazing creatures to him. He loved it and the lions seemed to really love him too!
Well, I think that is it for this post. Last time I posted about my quilt project and Lucas' room makeover…I don't have the pictures here at the moment so I will try to remember to post them next time.
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