I think the desert must breed weirdism. Meet Márcio and Meire. He was the small groups pastor for a very large church in Fortaleza and earning $2000 (US) a month. Because the church has a school, his kids were going to private school for free and his wife was working for the church. Nice, huh? […]
Ave Maria
Sometimes life is far funnier than anything a comedian can come up with. The church in Ubaúna has begun to experience some explosive growth. Consequently, they are far more people than there is space to put them in. That especially is true of the children. While there, I popped in to a small room no […]
Weird
My sojourns in the desert of northeastern Brazil brought me in contact with some really weird people. Danilo and Fatima. Both in their mid-30’s, Danilo is an engineer and his wife Fatima is a school teacher. Danilo was making $7,000 (US) a month in his job. Both walked away from it to move to a […]
Die sucker!
There are all kinds of interesting critters that we run into in the desert of northeastern Brazil. Frogs, tarantulas, scorpions, snakes, flies, things I don’t even know how to translate. The most ferocious, however, is the mosquito. Kinda funny, isn’t it? Let me tell you what these little suckers can do. Last March, one bit […]
I’m not real happy about this
You might recall my displeasure at having to tell a couple of mothers that I had nothing to offer her for her hungry children the other day. It happened again. While in Paxólas, a slum area on the outskirts of Ubaúna, we were updating pictures of Seed of Hope children. A mother comes up to […]