Loose Ends - Orality, Vacation, Home Ministries

Well --- we finally are back online with our computers after receiving parts from the States -- just in time to shut it all down for a while. I was unable to finish the orality blog series. I will do so sometime in the future. In August we will be attending a training session at Wycliff in Dallas about orality.

We leave Brazil June 3 for Vacation and Home ministries. Please remember to pray for us during this time.

During June we will be visiting friends in the Netherlands and London with a side trip to Paris and camping in Scotland and Iceland. It all ends with a bang - the fourth of July in Washington DC! As we are used to nothing below about 74 degrees at night and days in the 90's with high humidity, we expect to freeze! (Iceland will be in the 50's). This will be our last family vacation before Jacob heads off to college.

July 5 we begin six months of home ministries. It has been over three and half years since we came to Brazil. Much has happened during this time. During most of home ministries we will be on the road with three of our four children. We will be at Momentum (BNYC) and Equip.

Because it has been four years or longer since we have raised support we are needing to raise over $25,000 in order to return to the field. Like everyone else costs have gone up. In addition the Real (the Brazillian currency pronounced similar to hey- al) has fallen from over three to the dollar to slightly less than two to the dollar and the cost of living in Brazil has risen sharply.

Please pray for our children during this time as we will be doing school on the road, for our support, and for safety as we drive thousands of miles.

Because we will be traveling, most likely there will not be another post until early July.

Thank you all for your prayers in the past. This ministry would not be possible without them.

Love In Christ, Ellen