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April
2002 Bible Institute
Growing in the Lord
The First Baptist Church of Pau D’Arco is a growing church and we are seeing souls saved and young people who were just a few short years ago children, now taking some leadership positions in the church. We have a Bible Club on Saturdays that is running around 80 kids and adolescents. The large majority of them have started coming to Sunday School. What a blessing! The kids are learning Bible stories, memorizing Scripture, and learning good Christian conduct. We have had 8 children accept Christ as their Savior since January and we have been able to witness to many of their families. Please pray for Mary and for Marcia and Heber who are directing this effort. Marcia and Heber are institute graduates. Heber has surrendered to full time mission work and is helping start a Bible Club in another church in the area and is giving Sunday School training classes 2 nights a week in still another area church. Please pray for these two girls that God will continue to open doors and use them for His honor and glory.
Camp Time
In just a few short months we will have our July camps for kids and young people. Please pray for us as we plan these camps and pray that God will send us many kids and youth to hear His word and have a week of Christian fellowship. Children's camp is the first week in July, followed the next week by youth and adolescent camp. We have invited Pastor Marcelo from São Paulo to be the guest speaker for the youth camp. He is a tremendous man of God. Camp is an important time here as it is a time when we can separate, for just a week, the young people and kids from the things the world offers and give them the opportunity to hear God’s Word and let God speak to their hearts. Pray that God will call out some, for the fields truly are white unto harvest. Prayer Request
In His Service
Bill and Mary Horton
Field Address:
Caixa Postal 14
67030-970 Ananindeua,
Pará, Brasil
Merry Christmas from Bill and Mary Horton "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Dear Friends in Christ, We want to take this opportunity to thank each of you for your prayers and support during this year of 2001. The Lord has been very good and has blessed in marvelous ways here in Northern Brazil. The First Baptist Church of Pau D’Arco has grown so much in number and spiritually. We have been able to add a much needed bathroom and we are slowly building some classrooms in order to have junior church in all services, thus relieving the standing room only situation we are in. Please pray that God will provide the needed funds. Our people are doing the work themselves but material is very expensive. Our Bible Club on Saturdays is running around 70 kids and we have been able to reach many for Christ through this ministry. Mary coordinated the program and it is very similar to awanas. We have 10 of our people working in the club. Two of them are graduating seminary students who teach and help in the direction of the program. It is so exciting to see the enthusiasm of these kids and to see how the Lord is blessing in their lives. Please pray for this ministry. We have 3 classes, one from 4 to 6 yrs, one from 7 – 10 yrs, and one from 11 – 14 yrs. We have been able to integrate most all of these into our Sunday School program and are reaching some of their parents with the gospel. We will be finishing another school year in the Bible institute, and we will be having our first graduation service with 3 graduates. Pray for them as they seek God’s will in their lives. One of them is the daughter of the Pastor who helped us start this work and who the Lord called home a couple of years ago. Her name is Heber Amaral and she feels called to be a missionary but is not certain of a particular field as of yet. Please pray that the Lord will give her direction. We are still praying for a place of our own for the institute as we need more room, a small library, etc. We are very grateful to the Independent Baptist Church (my sons Kyron and John’s work) that has allowed us to use their building but we ask that you pray for God’s leadership and provision of a place of our own. Pray for each student and each teacher as this is a work the devil hates and fights every step of the way. Praise God for the answered prayers and victories we have through our wonderful Lord and Savior. We have been doing a lot of work at our camp, the El Shalom Independent Baptist Camp. We want to thank each of you who have had a part in this ministry. We have seen lives changed, young people surrender to full time service, and many souls saved through the ministries of the El Shalom Camp. Again we want to wish each of you a Merry Christmas. We love you and appreciate you so very much. May God bless you. Till Jesus Comes, Bill and Mary
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God's Blessings Youth and Children's Camp What a wonderful camp we had ! The Lord showered his blessing on this camp, giving us the best camp we have had in several years. The spirit was sweet, the fellowship between the youth was wonderful, and we all felt God's Holy Spirit speaking to our hearts. Pr. Ebenezer and his wife Márcia from São Paulo came to be the special speakers for the youth and adolescents. God used Pr. Ebenezer to challenge and speak to the hearts of each one and his wife brought challenging lessons from God's word for the adolescents. We had many decisions for full time service made, lives rededicated to the Lord and some precious souls saved. João, a young 14 year old boy from our church who has no parental love and attention, no definite place to live, never smiled, and did not know the Savior, found Jesus Christ as his personal savior on the last day of camp. What a difference as we saw him come into church on Sunday with a big smile! Wow what a Savior! After this wonderful camp we had a week off and then we had junior camp. God blessed this camp also much beyond our expectations. The Lessons were tremendous as God used Marcia, one of our Bible Institute, graduating seniors from our church in Pau D'Arco to teach these kids. We saw many kids come to know the Lord as Savior. All of the kids had a great time and how they wished camp would not end. Most of them have little or no parental love, very little food to eat and live in very bad conditions. Please pray for the work among the kids here in our area. Bible Institute A new semester at the Instituto Batista Bíblico do Norte will begin in August. It will be so good to have our son John and his family back in the work (not to mention our grandkids that we haven't seen for a year). God is so wonderful! He just keeps on blessing! For some time we have been praying for a place for the institute. Please continue to pray with us. Land and buildings are very expensive but we serve a mighty God who is able to provide for His work. Please pray with us about this. Bible Club The First Baptist Church of Pau D'Arco is a growing church and we are seeing souls saved and young people who were just a few short years ago children, now taking some leadership positions in the church. We have a Bible Club on Saturdays that is running around 70 kids and adolescents. We just finished a semester and are already looking forward to the next one that will start in August. We have seen many of these saved since the beginning of the year. What a blessing! The kids are learning Bible stories, memorizing Scripture, and learning good Christian conduct. We have been able to witness to many of their families. Please pray for Mary and for Marcia and Heber who are directing this effort. Marcia and Heber are institute students who will be graduating in December. Heber has surrendered to full time mission work, so pray for these two girls. Building For His Glory Please pray for this church as we are slowly building a bigger place. We have two Sunday School classes that meet outside (when it doesn't rain) and one Bible Club class. We have the walls up and are saving to be able to get a roof on. Please pray for these precious people that soon we will be able to finish this building. We have been able to add a bathroom since our last prayer letter and believe me that is a blessing. Prayer Request Please pray for good health for Mary and I as we work in His fields; for each institute student and teacher; for our two sons, John and Kyron and their ministries; for God's supply of a place for the institute; for His provision for the building of the First Baptist Church of Pau D'Arco; and for the coming up children's camp. Thank You We want to thank each of you who have a part in our ministry here in Brazil by prayer and support. We love each of you and thank our wonderful Lord for you. May the Lord continue to bless. In His Service Bill and Mary Horton
God's Blessings Family Retreat What a great time we had praising the Lord and studying His Word while the rest of the country was taking part in the most ungodly festival of the year, Carnival. We had a tremendous speaker, Pr. Inácio, from the state of Tocantins. We studied about Christian families in the year 2001 and everyone went away from the retreat with a renewed dedication to protect and cherish our families as we serve the Lord. One 22 year girl was saved.Bible Institute This semester at the Instituto Batista Bíblico do Norte we have added two new teachers to the staff, Pr. Celson Batista and Pr. Luiz Rodriguez. It is always a wonderful thing when we see the Brazilian leaders in action. We are so thankful to the churches that have had a part in buying books for our library. Our students have a lot of research papers to do and now they can accomplish this in our own library. God is so wonderful!For some time we have been praying for a place for the institute. Please continue to pray with us. Land and buildings are very expensive but we serve a mighty God who is able to provide for His work. Please pray with us about this.Growing in the Lord The First Baptist Church of Pau D'Arco is a growing church and we are seeing souls saved and young people who were just a few short years ago children, now taking some leadership positions in the church. We have a Bible Club on Saturdays that is running around 70 kids and adolescents. The large majority of them have started coming to Sunday School and we have seen five of these saved since the beginning of the year. What a blessing! The kids are learning Bible stories, memorizing Scripture, and learning good Christian conduct. We have had 6 children accept Christ as their Savior since January and we have been able to witness to many of their families. Please pray for Mary and for Marcia and Heber who are directing this effort. Marcia and Heber are institute students who will be graduating in December. Heber has surrendered to full time mission work, so pray for these two girls.Building For His Glory Please pray for this church as we are slowly building a bigger place. We have two Sunday School classes that meet outside (when it doesn't rain) and one Bible Club class. We have the walls up and are saving to be able to get a roof on. Please pray for these precious people that soon we will be able to finish this building.Camp Time In just a few short months we will be have our July camps for kids and young people. Please pray for us as we plan these camps and pray that God will send us many kids and youth to hear His word and have a week of Christian fellowship Youth camp is the first week in July, followed by children's camp the third week. We have invited Pastor Ebenezer from São Paulo to be the guest speaker for the youth camp. He has preached for our camp in the past and is a tremendous man of God. Camp is an important time here as it is a time when we can separate, for just a week, the young people and kids from the things the world offers and give them the opportunity to here God's Word and let God speak to their hearts. Pray that God will call out some for the fields truly are white unto harvest.Prayer Request Please pray for good health for Mary and I as we work in His fields; for each institute student and teacher; for our two sons, John and Kyron and their ministries; for God's supply of a place for the institute; for His provision for the building of the First Baptist Church of Pau D'Arco; and for the coming up camps in July.Thank You We want to thank each of you who have a part in our ministry here in Brazil by prayer and support. We love each of you and thank our wonderful Lord for you. May the Lord continue to bless.In His Service
Bill and Mary
Caixa Postal 14
67030-970 Ananindeua, Pará
Brasil
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