April 2005

Dear Friends.

“But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.” Ps 5:11

We had a wonderful services resurrection Sunday, with an early breakfast at the church, and then Sunday school.  There were about fifty of us there, and I took advantage of their presence to preach to the believers and visitors. We had a good crowd on Sunday night also. We serve a risen, living Savior!  

A couple of weeks ago we started having a lot of adolescents attend service, and we have about twenty five of  these kids on Saturday night now. We are studying the book of James, and it has been fun to watch these kids memorize ten and even twenty verses of this book just for fun. A thirteen year old girl named Diane memorized the first chapter of James perfectly in three days! All of them are trying to out do each other now, by memorizing as much as they can. We are praying that He will save these kids! What a blessing they would be to the Church!  

Rebecca has been a little under the weather with a virus that has been going around, and I thank the Lord that I have not come down sick with it. The church people and the Bible institute students were also infected making it pretty interesting.  There is always something going around in this city, and it seems to get worse every year. There are many tropical diseases that they don’t even have names for yet. Pray that God would spare us.

We thank the Lord for you, and your continued interest and investment in this work. God is blessing

His for Brasil

John Hawkins