Carnaval, Brazil, 2010

Carta - Map Sao Paolo, Jundiai, Joaopolis

Google map of ministry area

Google a better one, if you can't find your way around! Buscalo mejor en Google si no se ven todos los lugares... more >>

Here's the poster!

Ken is now giving his seminar in Brazil. Here are his reports. Ken ya ha comenzado con el taller de evangelización para las carnavales de Brasil. Aquí siguen las noticias. Desgraciadamente, no dispone de mucho tiempo en internet, así que estamos intentando hacerle las traducciones a posteriori. more >>

Todo en deferido ~everything one step removed in Brazil

Sao Paolo also has problems with rain like the south of Peru. But it falls in torrential showers for an hour or two every day. We circled in the plane above it for an hour waiting a break to land. Adriana and her parents were there waiting. The time difference with Peru meant that it was later and by Brazilian time I was not to bed before 1 am. The hotel in central Jundiaí among the tower blocks is fairly basic. more >>

Communicating with the majority population - Comunicando con la mayoría de la población

Brazil, as in many of the emerging nations of the world, rejoices in a population where the greying factor and the Islamic demographic take over factor have had no effect. My Saturday was spent at a youth outreach camp which the Jundiai church organizes twice a year. About thirty young people who are non believers or not committed in their discipleship are invited to an intensive weekend. more >>
Meet the family - Sunday at Jundiai

The Jundiaí Memorial Baptist Church has an auditorium which fills up with some 500 to 600 people every Sunday evening. With the youth camp and other holiday absences, the morning service which began at 9.30 am was more modest. more >>
Nunca nos han ensenyado sobre estas cosas así. Never has anyone taught us about these things in such a way!

This was the commentary from the leading pastor of Jundiaí Memorial Chruch at the end of the first evangelism workshop. 105 people came of the 120 signed up (some being couples with young children). Other congregations were represented having seen the publicity on the Internet and the street. There is a longing to be more effective in evangelism, surely put there by the Lord of the Harvest. more >>
On the blue box? Sobre la caja azul?

Tuesday was an advance in our programme of workshops. Firstly, we went completely against Brazilian culture and started on time! Instead of a platform performance, the participants entering the building found a video of Maritiza and Mau singing followed by an illustrated talk by yours truly on a blue box. more >>
Down by the river side. Al lado del río

Wednesday night at Jundiaí Baptist Memorial is prayer meeting night as it is in a number of the other churches. So we had a time in common with the large attendance and then the workshop participants went to a park by the river for a first demonstration open air. more >>
And in the Brazilian shirt for the first time... Y en la camisa brazileña por primera vez...

The final day of the four days of open air preaching workshops was last night. Fortunately I had transported some powder paint from Spain which had survived quite well - although baggage handling had managed to perforate one of the plastic containers. However the paint which was acquired locally was acrylic base and the only paper of sufficient size was brown wrapping paper. more >>
From rusty relics to rural revelry - De reliquias oxidadas a festividades rurales

On Friday some friends, Guillermo and Ana, came out from Sao Paolo to visit. They got up at 5.00 am to get on a bus and have the morning with me. We met by coprrespondence many years ago and I did see them on a couple of occasions when they worked as immigrant workers in Swindon, England. Therefore it was very appropriate to take a taxi to the railway museum. more >>
Dulce Domum - the final blog from the Peru/Brazil journey. Dulce hogar - el blog final

I have loved the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil in which the Lord has called me these last two weeks. In the airport as I walked to the immigration check and had to part from Adriana and Mario on my last day, I was mainly silent because I did not not know where to start to enumerate the blessings of having served in the Gospel here. And they had told me that it was the Brazilians that got emotional! Adriana´s parents had invested a lot of time and effort in ensuring that I was invited. With sensitivity they had chaperoned and surrounded me with care and attention. Within their family the wonders of their prayerful parenthood were evident in the atmosphere of dialogue and love with their three daughters and their fiancees/ boyfriends. In many other homes of members it was possible to share freely in friendship and fellowship. The door had been open to evangelistic ministry to a degree which left me breathless after so many years of swimming against the current in Spain. The prayers of many people were answered in the ministry of translation which Adriana did with verve, and the fact that my other translators caught something of the fire as we worked together last weekend. One of them, Leandro, had only been a believer for a few months and for him it was a very affirmative experience to preach the Gospel after me in the open air. "It´s the first time I have ever done anything like this..." he said, but in a tone which suggested that it might not be the last. But, as I wrote in the heavyweight work on Missionology which I gave to Adriana on parting, it was she who had been a Phoebe (Rom. 16. 1 - 2) "for she has been a great help to many people, including me". The 180 members of the mission team from Jundiaí Memorial Baptist church who took part in the outreach were asked for their evaluation of the activity. Many answers have yet to come in and be assessed by the church leadership. But at the end I asked Adriana and her father Mario if we had accomplished the purpose behind the church´s invitation. "Yes!" was their reply and, when all the verdicts are in, on earth that reply would be sufficient.
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