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Enriching our fellowship

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Last week was our annual Day of the Family of God. On this Lord’s Day most of the congregations in Greater Recife don’t congregate in their regular meeting places but come together for one big worship assembly. It was held at the Police Academy in the center of town. Antonio Silva, evangelist with the Pexinhos […]

Regrets, remorse and repentance

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This month’s ‘Servants’ meeting featured a message by veteran missionary Joe McKinney. The lesson was entitled “Regrets, remorse and repentance of an old church worker”. He began by relating an interview he read in a magazine of a man dying of AIDS. The man was asked, “If he had his life to live over again, […]

How Christians survive the Brazilian Carnaval

How Christians survive the Brazilian Carnaval

Brazil is known worldwide for many things: talented soccer players, the Amazon River and Jungle, and the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro. However, nothing is a famous to tourists as “Carnaval”. This annual event started out a long time ago as a religious holiday that focused on spiritual discipline and abstinence from the pleasures […]

Nine Girls and a Sermon

Nine Girls and a Sermon

Celebrating one year of studying the Sermon On The Mount with our all girls Bible study group! This past year a group of eight girls and I (Aureni) studied the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew.  We were so amazed by the infinite numbers of lessons one can learn from it. It would take us […]