This month, we had a week-long visit from a group affiliated with the Healing Hands International ministry (hhi.org) based in Nashville. This ministry sends boxes of supplies (including school and hygiene materials and Bibles) to underprivileged children worldwide. Nine members of the group came from the Glen Allen Church of Christ in Richmond, Virginia, while […]
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School of the Bible under new leadership
Bible and English teachers at the School of the Bible 2022 was a year of many changes for the School of the Bible. With life slowly coming back to normal after the pandemic, we were able to restart our regular classes, offering classes at all hours throughout the week. We also resumed hosting our certificate […]
Visiting the “Least of These”
Vale do Catimbau is a very impoverished region. Members of the downtown congregation set out for a 5-hour trip into the interior of the state for our second SOS Sertão (SOS Hinterlands). Our visits are to a small community in the Vale do Catimbau, a desert-like region quite isolated from the outside world. Church members […]
School of the Bible restarts on weeknights!
Professor João teaching How to Read the Bible This month we began the new courses at the School of the Bible. This is our third period of classes since the pandemic, but the first offering classes on weeknights. Because the school is in downtown Recife, we can only offer courses at times that are safe […]