Rio Preto: May News

In Brazil, Mother's day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. In Church, the children prepared a little tribute to the mothers present in the service. After reading a funny and sweet poem, they gave them a book about Mary, a special mother in Bible. We ask God to bless our Children Ministry, so that is grows.

After Meire's Birthday, we celebrated Maristela's Birthday. Again, we did it in the cell meeting on May 26th, having many visitors to experience the fellowship. Maristela’s sisters and other relatives were there and could hear the Word of God.

Yet in May, I had the opportunity to participated for three days in a very special pastors network discipleship in Goiânia, 500km away from Rio Preto. This meeting has the purpose to help and guide pastors in cell churches. I fell so blessed for being part of this group, getting much inspiration and ideas. We meet every 45 days. This is not only about strategy but about vision and prayer life. From that day on I started praying every day in the church building and I see pleasure in everything I do serving God. The Church is growing in vision, and soon, in number.

Our goal for this year is to achieve three cell groups and 30 participants. We believe the weekends “Meeting with God” are fundamental to change lives. We want to make every new Christian a disciple and help them grow with God.

I want to ask you to pray for this weekend, June 12^th and 13^th. There will be five to eight new people participating. Some people in Church are even fasting so that theses lives can really have a meeting with the love of God. The ones who decide for Jesus will be received in Church with a special party on Monday the 14^th, and start the discipleship. After that, they become members in Church. Please pray for these people, so that they get consolidated in the rock, Christ. I have some names so far: Natasha(20), Valéria(50), Jonas(19), João Paulo(41) and Rafael(20) are goint to be there. Some people are not confirmed for the weekend yet: Gabriel(17),Thamires(15) and Rejane (30). Pray for them.

I thank you for all the support and your prayer.

In Christ,

Tiago