Sunday's Present-Number 1

We've shared before about our Sunday presents. Yesterday we were blessed to have one of those presents given to us.

Yesterday was, as you know, the last Sunday of the month and, as is the custom of this house church network, we had our celebration. A time for all the house churches to meet together as one big family. It's always encouraging and it really seems as if these times together are becoming more and more a celebration and less of a formal gathering.

Yesterday we were blessed to have our church family put their hands on our new son and our family and pray a prayer of thanksgiving and blessing for Giovanni. Our brother Roberto led the prayer.

We were very blessed by the love shown to our new son and the prayer for his life. Here is a picture of the blessing as Roberto (to the right with the microphone) prayed.Roberto then gave his testimony of what God is doing in his life in the missionary training program he is a part of. It's pretty faith building stuff to see the transformation in Roberto. We were blessed that his day off from the program allowed him to be back in our city and pray over Giovanni.
God also blessed us with some visitors. These are our new friends Luis Henrique, his wife Andréia and their son Matheus. I met Luis a couple of months ago and since then he's come to about three house church worship times. He and Matheus are Christians but Andréia has yet to give her life to Jesus. Please pray for these guys. They are already getting a special place in our hearts. I realize as I finish this post that God gave us not just one but three presents yesterday.

Actually, he gave us four. More on the fourth tomorrow.