Lori’s brother Paul and his daughter Stephanie, along with Katie Brescia and Andrew Rockey will be here with us, Lord Willing, this week. We are very happy to have the help that all these extra hands and willing hearts will bring!
Lori and I made up an itinerary for the week to plan each day and allow the kids to know what would be happening, day to day. Every day, Lord Willing, we will be on the streets with the Gospel and three of the days we will have a meal to give the street kids. We left Thursday open for the distribution of the Gospels of John because it is a holiday here. We thought that since we don’t know how the holiday will affect the quantity of food needed, we’d concentrate on distributing the Word and the clothes that the kids are bringing from home. Just as a curiosity we asked what holiday it was on Thursday. It is St. John’s day!
When we ordered the Word from the Sociedade Biblica do Brasil, we were told that just the day before they had lowered the price of the Gospels of John to their cost, 60 centavos or 33 cents each. They had also lowered the cost of the one other item we enquired about, the New Testament, to Real$1 each, or 55 cents each. We ordered five thousand Gospels of John and five thousand New Testaments.
Although the money was wired to SBB’s bank account on the 19th of May, the Bradesco bank is withholding the money from SBB’s account until the government money exchange form is completed. The form registers the exchange, on the money wired, from dollars to reais. Please pray for this paperwork to be completed Monday morning, the Word to be shipped tomorrow, and the timely arrival of the Word here in Natal.
Please also pray for the power of His presence with us, minute by minute throughout the days to come. There is no way to express how your prayer lifts up our hands and strengthens us, but you need to know that it is felt.
Love in Christ,
Mark&Lori,
Caroline and William
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