25th May Update

Hello everyone.

Since my last update we have been working at our project church in Cajepe, walking distance form our house, full time. There is only ever 4 of our team t the project at a time but we switch after lunch so that there is always people there. The work that is included is plastering the inside walls of the church building. This work only needs 1 or 2 people at a time, so the other people go outside to talk and play with the kids that live near by. We have a worker that the church has given us that tells us what to do and sets the standard of plastering. We have all tried plastering but only a few people have got the right technique. Our worker has shown us how to do it properly and we are getting better now. It has been really fun playing with the children outside the church. Their ages range from 4 to 16 and 17. Most of the children come to the Church but we hope to get more coming soon.

On Fridays, the Pastor of the project Church in Cajepe organises an evangelism evening. We all meet at the Church and then we walk out to an area and set up chairs, microphone and instruments to preach, sing and also perform dramas. We have done this twice now and it has been really fun every time. The first time, Andrias and James from our team shared their testimonies, which had been translated into portugues, and we also played a couple of english and portugues songs. On the second evangelism night, we sung a few songs and also performed and drama, which people said was really great.

We have been asked as a team to organise a kids club during the week for the children that we play with at the project Church. Our first kids club was last Friday. We themed the club on the story of Noah and the great flood. Games and craft were included in the club and we got the children to make animal masks that had bible verses on the back of them. After the games and craft, we performed and drama with the whole team and it went down really well. We are planning to have a kids club once a week from now on.

Another great activity that we are going t door is door to door evangelism. The Pastor of the Cajepe Church is going to take 4 of the team around to different houses around the Cajepe area and he will be evangilsing to them. We are going to be doing this twice week starting from tomorrow. I am going to be joining in with this today and i am looking forward to it.

So far this project has been really fun and very different to our last project in Aldeia. It has been really nice living in town and being so close to shops. It has made the trip to buy food for the day much easier. We can also walk into the centre of Serra Talhada in around 20 minutes. I have really loved all the relational aspects of this project. We have already got to know so many children for the Cajepe area and also quite a few of the parents too. The members of the Church that we live above have been very welcoming and we have made many good friends already. We have decided to rotate who goes to the 2 churches in the evenings. 5 people go to the Church we live above and 5 people people go to the Project Church in Cajepe. This means that we make and appearance at both churchs all the time. The Church in Cajepe is quite small at the moment but it is rapidly growing.

I have got a couple of pictures of our new friends from the church and also our first kids club we organised:



I am really looking forward to all the things that are to come in Serra Talhada. It has been really good so far and I know our time will only get better.

Thank you for reading.


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