Christian is a man who left the chácara last year after recovering from his drug addiction. You may remember him from our previous blog when some brothers and sisters from different house churches went and painted his and Anderson's apartment over the Carnaval holiday. You may also remember that it was this same apartment that we used to start our accountability group every Friday night.
God has been moving in his life. He and Anderson were offered an opportunity of buying a little grocery store. After praying about it they felt led to move from their apartment and move to another part of the city to become the owners of this grocery store. They also live in the same building as the grocery store. We don't see them as much as we used to or as much as we would like, but that is one of the things about working with the guys from the chácara. After they leave, they all go to different areas of the city. We may have a lot of contact with them after they leave or very little. We are learning to be content to play whatever role for whatever amount of time that God sees fit in their lives.
Back to Friday. We were invited to this church (the home church of Christian and Grazi) not for the meal, but for a celebration. Christian wanted to use this opportunity to exchange engagement rings with Grazi in front of his church family as well as to receive the blessing from his church family.
Benay and I were invited because Christian and Grazi have asked us to be in their wedding. They have also asked our teammate Matt and his wife Waleska to be in it, as well as our brother Paulo Renato. Benay has gotten close with Grazi because of the weekly Bible study they have been doing together. We love both of them and were honored to be a part of Friday night as well as their upcoming wedding.
First the pastor got up and said a few words about the supper and then said the night was much more special than a supper. He then asked Christian to come up and share a few words.
Christian wasn't expecting it, confessed being nervous, but spoke from his heart about Grazi and their relationship.
The pastor then asked Matt to come up and pray a blessing over this couple.
They then exchanged rings.
Then it was picture time with the happy couple.
We ask that you pray for this couple.
They plan on getting married in December.
1 comment:
That is so awesome! Next time you see Christian please give him a hug and tell him that I am praying for him.
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