August 27-29 we had our annual Family Conference at our church.  Barry’s dad, Tom Farlow was the preacher this year.  It was great for us to have Barry’s parents here with us for about a week and the preaching was a blessing to our church and quite a few visitors from other fellowshipping churches.

Here in Brazil, Children’s Day is at least as big as Christmas.  Here are a couple pictures from our Children’s Day activities at church.

We hosted the last married couples’ meeting at our house.  It was a blessing to have, and be able to use, the extra space provided by the former MK school where we live.

David and Paul are getting used to Sunday School.  It has taken them awhile, since, at first they didn’t understand anything! Now they know many of the “basics” and have made friends with the other children in their class. Mark and Luke are in the same Sunday School class with Pastor Ari’s son, Daniel.  Pretty […]

This is Pastor Ari, the Brazilian pastor I am working with.  We are really enjoying working with each other. By the way, here in Brazil I am going by my middle name, Alan, which is much easier for them to pronounce and helps me to not stick out so much like an American. So at […]