Missions: From Brazil
Dear friends and family,
I hope this email finds all of you well. We are all fine here. I want to share with you some wonderful news that happened this month of September. First of all Robin is improving daily. Her doctor believes it will take two more weeks before she can get out and about. She has her energy level back to normal and her feeling on her legs is almost all there. Her right leg is about 90% better and her left leg is about 75% better.It was a very serious complication from a vaccine she took here in Brazil. Please continue to pray for her as she is VERY ready to get out of the house.
We also finished both of our theology classes. Edinilson and Alisson (our two evangelists) taught these classes. Alisson graduated 15 students and Edinilson graduated 32 students. You will see a picture below of both classes. These two groups were very good Bible students and we believe God will bring forth much more fruit than He already brought today. We tried something different for the very first time in the four years that we have been teaching these classes. We usually would meet for 10 weeks once a week. This time we offered a 5 week class meeting two times a week. Same class hour time but meeting more frequently. It was a positive experience. The students and ourselves had more time together and we able to stay closer and maintain a better relationship.
We will begin a 5 week course on Angels beginning tomorrow. Our purpose is to maintain this group united and teach them God's plan of salvation. I will be teaching this 5 week class. Please keep this in your prayers. Today we had a wonderful Sunday. We had 126 present (packed auditorium). Had to bring extra chairs to seat everyone. The best news was that we had 8 baptisms and 1 return to God's family. What a wonderful Sunday. Not many times in my life I have seen 8 baptisms at the same time. It makes we dream of how beautiful heaven will be. This today was a little part of the big picture. We had to change our worship service format. We wanted to do the baptisms before the Lord's Supper so that they could all partake of it with the congregation. We sang several songs and then had the baptisms (which lasted about 45 minutes) and then the Lord's Supper and Offering. Had a lesson and closed with a prayer. We decided to not have Bible class this morning and have a wonderful fellowship with our new brothers and sisters. The names of your new brothers and sisters are: Carlos and Simone (husband and wife), Rosane and Helio (mother and son), Mario and Carol (father and daughter), Eliana, Silvia and Fatima. What a wonderful Sunday!
With these new Christians we now have 37 additions to the Lord's church in 2007. Our goal at the beginning of the year was to have 70 additions (double the membership). We are more than 50% towards our goal.
We love you and miss you,
Allen Dutton and Family
Missions:
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The Dutton Family
Sunday Morning Worship in Campinas
Sunday Morning Worship in Campinas
Church in Campinas
Worship Service Times
Sunday: Bible Study 9:30 am, Worship 10:30 am and 5:00 pm
Wednesday: Worship 7:00 pm
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