Welcome to the Pruitt family's mission work newsletter site, ongoing in Recife, Brazil.
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 […]
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 […]
Imagine having no running tap water or electricity, hospitals, police stations, or supermarkets. That is how a community of people live in the Vale do Catimbau. Planning the mission trip at a hotel The Vale do Catimbau is a desert-like region about a 5-hour drive from Recife. Part of that journey is on dirt roads. […]
The situation of the Venezuelans in Brazil is still precarious. They started a migration to Brazil a few years ago when the situation of their country started to deteriorate under the dictatorship of Maduro. They fled their country to avoid dying of hunger. So far, 300,000 Venezuelans have migrated to Brazil. It is a sad […]