Saturday, March 11, 2006
Funeral: Urgent Prayer Request
Tomorrow at 10.00 a.m. Andrew will be speaking for the first time at a funeral in Brazil. The circumstances are very difficult. Helvécio, brother to Simone, of the Peregrinos, took his own life this morning. He ordered his wife and children out of the house and then hanged himself. The funeral would have been this afternoon, but the extra time for some legal processes connected with a suicide meant the delay until tomorrow.
Apart from Geraldo and Simone, the whole family are spiritists, of greater or lesser seriousness. We have been praying as a church that we would see more opportunities to explain the gospel, but we would not have chosen this one. However, we know God is sovereign over all things. Please pray that he will work in this desperately sad situation.
Tomorrow at 10.00 a.m. Andrew will be speaking for the first time at a funeral in Brazil. The circumstances are very difficult. Helvécio, brother to Simone, of the Peregrinos, took his own life this morning. He ordered his wife and children out of the house and then hanged himself. The funeral would have been this afternoon, but the extra time for some legal processes connected with a suicide meant the delay until tomorrow.
Apart from Geraldo and Simone, the whole family are spiritists, of greater or lesser seriousness. We have been praying as a church that we would see more opportunities to explain the gospel, but we would not have chosen this one. However, we know God is sovereign over all things. Please pray that he will work in this desperately sad situation.
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