Brazilian Carnaval

This is the Carnaval we know in Brazil! People love to dance in parades, have fun and just enjoy!
That's our tradition! It's part of our culture. Brazilian carnaval is known worldwide for this national party! These images represent what come to our minds when we think about Carnaval. This is what Carnaval is like in Brazil! Funny, huh?

Instead of falling into this temptation, during Carnaval our church spent two days on a mission work, we served others! As you know, the Salgado family has just moved to a new town called Cachoeirinha, part of the suburbs of Porto Alegre. Actually we are not sad for this. Now we have a new house church in Cachoeirinha. But in order to call people's attention to go to this house, we took the opportunity to paint the public day care for the children of the community, this way we could integrate the community and talk about the Salgado family house church. Unfortunately we did not have many people interested in us, at first. But we have surely planted a seed in that community. Check the pictures:

Paul Morrow
The Blumes
I was working in the kitchen! That's a good support!( Mom, I'm wearing the apron you sewed for me!) Painting is not my talent to serve! I prepared cookies, cakes, coffee, etc... As a way to keep everybody well fed while working!

Sascha Terry
Ines! She comes to our house church!
Joao Spencer, our dear friend!









The Blumes kids!
Rute Salgado! She's our hope!









My husband is sooo cute when he's working! :)
I love these girls! Ansley Blume helped me with the cookies!
The kids were taking a break!

This is Paulo Renato, a true servant of God!

Together we can do wonders in the name of God! It was really worthy to trade Carnaval for this! Now it is time for some rest and relaxation!

happy Carnaval!

My Personnal Connections!

Hi, here I am in Camaqua, where my sister and her family live. I was there on February 1st to honor her. She is an accountant and she was sworn in as the new Secretary of Culture of Camaqua (a city with 60.000 people. We had a ceremony where the mayor and my sister gave a speech. It was nice to be there. I'm very proud of her! I am a person who values the family ties! :)
I hope to use this connection in favor of our missionary work, through campaigns, cultural events, etc. Now with this house church model the gospel has no limits!

Carlota is giving an interview to the radio!

She is like Evita Peron, everywhere she goes in Camaqua, she is recognized, and everywhere Matt and I go there, we say we are related to Carlota, it is amazing how people treat us better because of this! hehe!