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January: Quick Updates From the Field

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1. New Addition to the Family Alice Pruitt is going to be an older sister! Lívia and Josh are nearing the end of the second trimester. We already found out that it’s going to be a boy. Baby Alice, who’s not that much of a baby anymore, will soon have a little brother to care […]

Have you left your first love?

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The big news this month is the 31st annual Congresso (Lectureship) of the Northeast (Brazil). It started Thursday and ran through Sunday. It was held in city of Belo Jardim (120 miles west of Recife). Each year this event moves around the cities of Northeast Brazil. It was the third time this congregation hosted it. […]

Day of the Family of God

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Sunday was the big annual Day of Family of God when all the congregations in Recife get together. We’ve done this event for over twenty-five years but this was only the second time made it a daylong event. The assembly took up most of the morning. After a good lunch together, most people stayed for […]

God’s Not Dead, Are You?

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This July we held the annual retreat for youth in the congregations of Recife and neighboring cities. We had 65 teens, and 35 helping brothers and sisters, spend four days learning more about what it means to follow and serve a living God. The theme was based on a well known apologetics book and movie “God’s Not Dead”. […]