Welcome to the newsletter site of the Pruitt family's mission work that is going on in Recife, Brazil.
Students are eagerly waiting for the return of the School of the Bible’s activities. And with many of the COVID restrictions still in place, we still have not returned to presential classes. Students miss studying the Bible together, seeing their professors and classmates every week, and going to a school that many of them call […]
One of our great challenges of this mission effort has been to establish elderships. A recent poll showed that there are now 326 congregations in Brazil since churches of Christ began sending missionaries 65 years ago. However, less than 5% of these have elders. In the New Testament, we see that elderships were common in […]
Every Christian wants to grow spiritually. Our lifelong goal as disciples is to be more like our Lord. As the apostle Paul sought to do with those to whom he ministered, “…we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ” (Ephesians 4:12). To this end, Recife’s […]
“Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” After his monumental failure of denying the Lord, Peter is reinstated to his ministry by Jesus in John 21:15-19. While many dismiss the differences in the two Greek words used for “love” in this passage (agape and phileo), I believe the Holy Spirit inspired John to choose […]