Thanksgiving 2018

Calvary Brazil Conference Center and Bible School

Conference Center

 We are in our busy retreat season. 
We have been having retreats every weekend and we will continue that way until mid-December. Recently we have hosted a couple of churches that had never done retreats with us before. It has been a blessing to make new relationships and serve these churches. We had a retreat of 130 people last week and we will have a retreat of 280 people next week. It is exciting to finish the year strong.

  

Vida E Verdade Bible School students at CC Rio

Bible School

 We have finished class for 2018. Our students went on their end of the year mission trip Rio. There they served Calvary Rio and helped transition the church to their new building. The Bible school students also had the opportunity to work in the “City of God” slum, one of the biggest slums in the world. They ministered to the children and to the prostitutes in the area. It is exciting to see the students use their gifts to bless the body of Christ and be Jesus to people in a lost world. 

Student graduation 

Mission trip

  

Students mission trip to Rio .

Bringing home books and clothes for the kids. 

Family

Dani and her mini (Bella)

•  While a full retreat schedule is keeping us very busy, it is nice to have the Bible School year over so that we can spend some time focusing on a few other things.  
• We are trying to take advantage of this time to plan for next year, to have some family time, and to do some projects around the house and property. 
•  Dani and I were also able to take a one week trip to  Florida a couple of weeks ago. We were able to get all of our kids homeschool books for the year and see some of our family and friends. It was the first time in our 14 years of marriage that we have been able to travel just the two of us so we were very excited! While in Florida we were also very blessed by our church and many friends with clothes for our kids. As many of you know clothes and other children items are very expensive in Brazil. Raising our large family on the missions field is expensive so the blessing of all the kids clothes was HUGE! Thank you to all of you who helped!!   

A walk after eating way too much ice cream

Florida visit

A quick trip to Florida

The Cate family with one of our graduating students and her daughter.

Sending out one of our school staff to CC Londrina

Prayer Requests:

• That the Lord would bring the right students for next year
• Unity for the work here
• Nehemiah's adoption, we still have no news.
• Pray for our family during the holiday season. Brazil has been home for a long time, but holidays can still be a little tough.
• Dani’s and Jeremiah’s health, they have both been doing better but they still have difficult days.



Rio

• Wisdom and vision for the conference center

Upcoming Retreats December

Hosting retreats is a lot of work and responsibilities for us and our staff. Please remember to pray for us on these dates. 

- 11/30-12/2) DFEPAR Women’s retreat

- 12/15-16) Presbyterian leadership retreat


Thank you so much for taking the time to pray for and remember our family and the work that the Lord is doing in Brazil. God bless! 

"Declare His glory among the nations,
His wonders among all peoples." (1 Chronicles 16:24)