People often ask us about the differences between living in the USA and Brazil. Holidays are one of those things! In the USA Thanksgiving and Christmas round out the big holiday season at years' end. In Brazil however we don't have Thanksgiving and it is New Years that is even bigger!
Christmas is a traditional time to spend with your immediate and close relatives, while New Years is a special time to celebrate with all your friends and family as only Brazilians can! A typical Christmas celebration starts at midnight the night of the 24th with a big supper followed by the exchanging of gifts and a party that lasts until the wee hours of the morning! New Years however may be a party that starts sometime around the 31st of December and goes on through the 1st of January.
This year the families from our small group ministry wanted to pass the new year together so they planned a New Years party that started on the 30th of December and went through the 2nd of January! It was great! What a blessing! We ate together, played together, camped together, ate together, worked together, hiked together, ate together, and we prayed together! Did I mention that we ate together! One wife commented that it seemed like we were eating something every few minutes! We even killed the "fattened pig" and ate that too! What a blast!
Thank you for your prayers and partnership this year! As you can see it has been amazing how God has worked in our lives and in the lives of those around us! Through your partnership men and women are being reached with the gospel and developed as disciples of Jesus Christ!
We are trusting God to raise up leaders from among these families who will help us shepherd and disciple other families! Some men are already beginning to lead, but it is a very important phase of development for the ministry among the families! Please be praying about this with us!
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