Gilvane is a new friend who is active in ministry in his own church but when we were talking this past week he said, "I am going to talk to my wife. We will try to put something together for the children at Waterfall of Souls for Childrens day". He only knows of Waterfall of Souls through this blog, but felt impressed to do something for the children there! Thank you Gilvane and for your wife for having such a heart of giving!
At the same time, Leandro's parents, Marinho and Imaculada were wanting to do something as well! Marinho went around asking friends if anyone wanted to contribute to the children for today... Leandro said that his father came in the room really excited saying, "someone gave us 10 Reais to help!" (brazilian dollars). So Leandro and his parents put together a special gift bags for the children, and I picked it up this morning on the way to Waterfall. Thank you Leandro, Marinho, and Imaculada for wanting to bless Waterfall and for your action towards that end.
Shalom went with me this morning... On Saturday we took two full crates of bananas to the street in front of the house where I stay and we started asking people if they wanted them. At first people looked at us strange, but then got they got excited and they went and told their neighbors and came with bags and baskets to carry away the fruit. Shalom loved the experience! She has a good heart and enjoys the feelings of "serving", so today at Waterfall, she was almost uncontrolable! Every 5 minutes she wanted to know if it was time to start giving away things to the children. She wanted to guarantee that she would get to help, and she did. She makes a great part of the team!
This is the cool part! Do you know how many kids were waiting in the city square? This picture only shows the majority of the children. There were still others that you aren't seeing in the photo, as well as parents and other people that gathered with us today. At least 50 people were there! From 13 - 17 to 50 without notice! In the beginning I thought "We have too much!" but thank God we had what we needed to take care of so many expecting and excited children! If any one source of giving had of been our only source it wouldn't have been enough... Because several people had the same hearts desire the end result was a lot of smiling faces! Thank you to everyone!
Todays group
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I am ashamed to say that I still get "amazed" by God's goodness sometimes. Ashamed only because I think, "wow, God was so good in this situation". But God doesn't need any kind of special occassion to be good. He is always good, always faithful and always loving. I should not be surpised by how abundantly He supplied. What an awesome turnout you guys had! And how great that Shalom was with you to experience it all.
Can't wait to see you!!
Well Byron...you are something else. The team that God puts together for you in order to help others. I am still amazed at the deeds you all do in Brazil. It is so awesome how those people in Waterfall gets shown every week the love of God. Once again, God is love and works through those services to show just that. It just still amazes me. I can't wait to see you. See if you can pack some of the others in your luggage and bring them also! I hope you are telling everyone how much I love looking at the pictures and reading about the services you all provide.I love keeping up with your updates! Jodi :>)
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