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On the Saturday, I spoke at a day conference for pastors organised by the Assemblies of God bookshop. The other speaker was Ludgero Morais, pastor of First Presbyterian, so the input was very much from the reformed perspective. But the group of pastors and seminary students who came was very broad, with Baptists and Pentecostals dominating. The title I was given could not be bettered, especially in a country where there is a tendency to rush into methodology, without laying a foundation in principles: "Why should I preach expositively?" An excellent day, which we hope will lead to further strategic opportunities in Belo Horizonte.

Sadly, and uncharacteristically, the only picture I took was of this poster, advertising a pentecostal, modest clothing company. So here it is...



Good seed.

The Good Seed thinks of you, Christian Woman, who is making your life an eternal sowing of goodness. Our clothes sow the well-being of the woman and her valorization*, and not her exposure.

Good Seed clothes are like this:
+ light
+ comfortable
+ modern
+ joyful
and principally, modest.

*Please note: Cora, who stresses that she has been speaking English for longer than Andrew, regards the word "valorization" as a nonsense unknown and unusable by ordinary people. Andrew however, contends that, though rarely used, the word does exist in English, and is the best way of transmitting the sense of the portuguese. Whatever the merits of this debate, suffice to say that the word means "the action of increasing the value or respect shown to something." We would like to take a vote on this matter - please comment!