Encouragement at the women`s meeting in Viamao!

Hi, It is me again visiting other congregations of the Church of Christ! This time I went to a women`s meeting in Viamao. There were about 30 women, which is a real blessing!
It was very encouraging, every presence is valuable for this group, I felt welcomed and accepted there! I was able to observe the way Juaneylla and Nadia (the missionaries there) prepare everything, so I can bring this to my group. Everything Juaneylla and Nadia do is with love, that`s why they are so succesful. That's the example I'm following!
We had the pleasure to have Janete Parker (from Texas) as our speaker and Juaneylla was glad to translate the class, she did great! :)
This is Nadia, leading the songs! She is a very special friend for me! I thank God for having them in my life!

One of the comments that Janete said was that she was impressed with the diversity of the group, I mean there were women from different social class and races. And we are all together for one purpose, Jesus!

I learned a lot today, at the same time I felt encouraged by this meeting, I realized that my presence there was also encouraging for those ladies! :)

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. 1 Corinthians 12:27

Couple's meeting March 8th

Here we are again, discussing with couples about how to communicate. This was our first couples meeting of 2008. I think we were the ones who learned the most! The topic of the meeting was comunication! So we started with an practical example: have you ever played wireless phone as a child? That's what we did as adults, and we were terrible, everytime we pass on a message we change words and consequently the meaning!
We shared experiences and ideas based on the Bible! e.g.: 1 Peter 3:7, Ephesians 4:26-27 and 29-30, Proverbs 18.2, and Ephisians 4:15 and 25 .
We had a great time chatting about these topics, then we had a meal and spent some time together! It is a great pleasure to open my apartment for God's purpose, everybody seemed to be comfortable and felt home. I love the home environment!
Above you can see Regis and Conceição Signoretti (left couch), they're moving to their new house soon, and they offered to open it and inaugurate in the next couple's meeting. It is a way to thank God for this new acomplishment of their lives! Next couple's meeting will be on April 26th!

Please pray for this ministry, Matt and I felt discouraged during the week of the meeting, I almost gave up this ministry, but thanks to my husband and the joy of people from the team of Viamão bringing me words of wisdom I kept on. I thank God sending "Angels" to keep me standing!
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephisians 4.29

More plans for 2008!!!

Yes, that`s right! I'm starting a newspaper for the church, I don't know when it is going to be ready, but I have good intentions to unite our ideas. I want to include a message (from my husband, of course!!!), what's going on in the house churches, social projects, classifieds, personnals, comics, sudoku, interview of members of the church, praye, and things like that! I don't have much experience, so Juaneila and Mark White from the team of Viamao are helping me, they're good friends, and they are always there for me! :) If you have any suggestions I would be glad to know, any help is welcome! I just don't know how I find time to do these things...:) It might be God providing everything I need to serve and glorify him!

This is Luzia! She comes to our house church! She has just adopted Mateus. This is a picture of her getting a blessing for her son. He is her first son, he is two years old, just a cute little boy, but very active! :) As we don't have any children in our house church, except for Joca, Clarice's and Joao's son (they're our best friends that Matt talks about on his blog). Their son goes to the Blumes house church because he would be the only child here. So in order to keep these families coming to my house, I decided to have a children`s worship in another room in my house, so while Matt leads the adult group, I could be with the children telling stories while playing with them. What I remember most about my childhood in the Lutheran church was my time at the children's worship where my mom was the teacher; it was a really meaningful experience for me, and I want to pass this on to the children in our church. I see how God has given this fruit in my life; because of this Christian base in my life I accepeted to take the challenge to marry a Christian minister. Therefore, I would like you to pray for me, it is difficult for me to find time and the necessary help for that, I hope God can send me the right person. I will need to search for appropriate material to start. Right now, I have Mateus, 2 years old and Joca 8 years old . That will be a big challenge as children are much smarter nowadays thanks to the technology.