Prayers

Benay and I have been feeling more and more led to get involved with the guys from the Christian drug and rehabilitation center (in Portuguese it's called the chácara)- especially after they've successfully completed the program and moved out of the chácara to find jobs, apartments, etc. We shared about the accountability group that I am a part of, and it's our prayer that Benay will start a similar group soon with the girlfriends of these guys.

We've also shared how our teammate, Matt, and our brother, Paulo Renato, go out to the chácara every Wednesday and spend the day with the guys that are there. We are kind of teaming up to minister to these guys while they are in the chácara as well as having something in place for them when they leave the center.

We want to do what God leads us to do in helping these guys successfully beat their drug and alcohol addictions.

We've some great success stories from the guys that have left. Sadly, at other times, we have also seen some men fall back to their old addictions.

We ask you today to pray for this man:His name is Josemar and he is our brother in Christ. He successfully completed his recovery at the chácara and graduated. He left the chácara a few months ago and shares an apartment with our brothers Christian and Anderson.

Recently he has returned to his old addictions.

Last night Matt, Paulo Renato, Christian, Anderson and Alexandre had kind of an intervention with Josemar.

We ask that you pray that Josemar will allow Christ to knock down any barriers in his heart that would prevent him returning to Christ and even returning to the chácara if needed.

Josemar is an energetic and dynamic young man who can do great things for Christ if he can just allow Christ to have the victory in his life over these addictions.

Please take a knee for him as soon as you are able. Thank you in advance for your prayers.