Visitors, Libraries, and CMED

One of the privileges we have living here as missionaries is to host visitors coming to explore missionary work as a career or people who just feel called to come and help. Currently we have a lovely couple from Ireland visiting our field and they are sharing their time between all of us so they can experience the people and life here as well as explore what God may be telling them.

One of the great things this couple did for us is to organize the library at our seminary. We had moved the library a few times and honestly we don't have alot of books that are useful (what good are English books in a Portuguese culture!) but we are slowly growing it. Marie has librarian experience and she along with the CAM school librarian helped us organize the library and get things off the floor. Some of the books had been catelogued and that will be one of the next steps, but at least we have them organized and on labeled shelves! We also managed to get all of our church multiplication text books re-organized and back in order by certificate (Certificate 1, 2, and 3). We'd been meaning to do this for a long time and with Frazer and Marie's help, it was done in no time! Simple thing that means so very much to us.... (PS - I have no idea why that one photo is sideways - no idea - it isn't that way on my computer but it sure transfers that way!) These are 'before' pictures.

We also spent some time with our Christian Micro-Enterprise Development guys (Mario and Samuel) as Frazer is a businessman with an interest in what they are doing. We had a great day with them as they presented what all they have accomplished and have planned for this next year. That program remains in serious jeapordy because we still lack sufficient funding for this current fiscal year. This hand-to-mouth way of living is something that I don't think I will ever get used to but God has yet to have let us down! The day God stops teaching us will mostly likely be the day we stop breathing!

They have been with our colleagues the last couple of days learning about our Christian School and opportunities there and we will join back with them tomorrow. They have been a real blessing to all of us.

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Blessings!

Thanks for coming!

"And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written..." John 21:25