I forgot to mention something fun from our Tuesday night dinner after the youth bible study: we had hot dogs, but Brazilian-style. The rolls were large sliced french rolls (we eat these with breakfast every day) that hold 2 hot dogs and then in addition to mustard and ketchup for condiments, they had marinara sauce, cooked corn, cooked peas and shoe-string crunchy potatoes.......how's that for a hot dog :-)
Wednesday during breakfast Flavia (Flavina) came by the hotel at breakfast; Flavina is a special gal from the Piratininga Vineyard who VCF Anaheim teams prayed for 3 years ago when she was ~15yrs old. She had a serious heart condition that prevented her from any strenuous physical activity. After the team prayed for her, she was totally healed and even went for a run the very next day; she has been working with the kids of the church ever since......she is even dancing during the conference on Saturday :-). Flavina's family just recently moved from Bauru to Piratininga and she invited all the young people on our team to dinner, movies and fun at her house Wednesday evening.
After breakfast we had a team meeting and had a great time of worship and adoration.......that's the word for worship in Portuguese "Adoracion", I really love it! We prayed for each other and especially for the Brazilians on our team, Filipe and Victor (from Rio) and Gabriel (from Bauru); we continue to pray that we leave a blessing for our Brazilian brothers and sisters!
The younger members of our team spent more time with the park kids on Wednesday afternoon, playing soccer, face painting and coloring with chalk all over the park. The old-folks (Beau, Jean, Katie, Greg) walked by and took some pictures.
Katie, Greg, Beau, Jean and Kim went to the Vineyard cafe at 8pm; the rest of the team went over to Flavia's house for dinner and a fun night (they rented a Brazilian action movie).
At the Vineyard Cafe, we had a sweet time of worship, with the little daughter of one of the worship leaders being on stage. It was so sweet, she had her own stool, with her own mike stand and spent the worship set putting her stuffed animal (chicken) on the stool and adjusting her mike stand.
We divided into Men and Woman's groups for the evening; Beau taught the men on 'the heart of a man' and Jean taught the women on 'the heart of a woman'. It was an intimate mid-week gathering with ~10 women and ~8 men. Kim, Katie and Jean prayed for the women after Jean's talk; one of the Mom's brought her 4 week old, so they got to hold a new little one; I think that's one of our purposes in Brazil, to call forth new life and nurture it!
Beau and Greg had a great time with the men as well; it seems that this is a bit of a dry time for the men and many did not have friendships or relationships to be a mentor or mentee. We encouraged the men to be intentional and if you need a friend, be a friend. We also prayed with the men and encouraged them that Jesus is for themn but to be strong we all need each other!
The younger folks had a great time at Flavia's as well......we mostly found that out as they didn't get back to our hotel until late :-)
Pray for us for continued stamina, health and courage!
We love you all,
VCF Brazil Team 2009
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