Monday, April 11, 2011

Church Outing

God blessed us this past weekend with a gorgeous day for our church picnic at a beautiful resort on the island of Florianopolis. There were all kinds of fun things to do and so much of God's wonderful creation to enjoy. With the exception of one lady who is traveling, all of our "regulars" were able to go and we had a couple visitors as well.


Our cabin was right across from this pond full of ducks and geese


Lots of fun things for the kids to do ...






Fun playground underneath a huge grove of bamboo


Friends


Lunch preparations


Mmmm ... churrasco!


Time to eat!


Gathering together to sing and have a devotional from the book of Psalms


The gang (except for James who is taking the picture)

Our littlest member. His parents professed faith in Christ shortly before his birth. How neat to think that this little guy was born into a Christian home and can grow up learning about Jesus.



This couple represents a couple of answers to prayer. The first one is that she professed faith in Christ several months ago, and then chose to leave our group to start attending a large church nearby that preaches the prosperity gospel. Even though we warned her about the doctrinal errors of this church, she joined them anyway. We cried tears over her and sent up many prayers for her. Just last week, she came back, saying she saw things at this church that she didn't agree with and that she will be rejoining us. The second answer to prayer is that her husband came along on this outing. This is the first time he has attended any of our church programs or events, and we pray that God will soften his heart so that he will join his wife in the Christian faith.

6 comments:

Rena said...

I have tears of joy for how the Lord is answering prayer and blessing your work there!

Gretchen said...

I am rejoicing over all those answers to prayer!! I have prayed for the woman who left for the prosperity church -- praise the Lord!! Looks like a WONDERFUL time you all had!

Vicki said...

It´s wonderful to see and pray for your ministries.

Jessica Curtis said...

Looks like a beautiful, fun day. Praise the Lord for the answered prayer.

Byron said...

Great post! I read your posts often but not sure if I have ever commented. This one is too good not to say so! Praise the Lord for His great provision in your work!

Yours,

Michele Atha

Anonymous said...

So happy to read this and see the fun pictures. God has blessed. I hope to meet these people some day.

Jonna