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Churrasco at Pântano do Sul

This weekend we had Franklin, Marilene and Beatriz Ferreira with us from Rio de Janeiro. Please pray for the time with them: they face big questions regarding their future in Rio, as we do here. In order to make the best use of the time with them as a group, we all spent Saturday together at Marquito's family's beach house down in the south of the island. Alex cooked churrasco - a barbecue, but for British readers, please subtract the rain and add real meat! At the start of the meal we remembered who died for us and who we are in him as we broke bread together: very simple, with a brief word from Luke's Gospel, and a hymn sung from memory.

What a glorious day! Much good food, much good conversation... and touch rugby on the beach! What more could you ask for?

Sunday was also a good day - Franklin preached in the afternoon at Beto's house, and afterwards we had an impromptu celebration of Cora's birthday. Good conversations continued throughout the weekend, and we were sad to see the family fly home today.

We hope the pictures tell the story...