banhocheiroso

Sunday 14 May The Peregrinos

Unfortunately the picture was taken after Geraldo, Simone and Letícia had gone, but it demonstrates how the face of the church is changing. Our numbers are still small, and we reached an all-time low at Carnival, when Alberto and Elizete felt that they needed to join their three children at the Presbyterian Church in Trindade, the next neighbourhood. The Carnival Retreat was a crucial moment of stock-taking, reflection and prayer. At that time we took the decission to start meeting regularly in the same place - our own home, and to get much more pro-active and less idealistic in terms of growth and structure. And since then we have seen a great change in terms of mood and numbers with contact with the MEUNI group leading to a number of students entering into regular contact with us. Those who come have been attending just as regularly on Friday nights for prayer as on Sundays, and this has been a great encouragement. So please pray on for the Peregrinos - we feel that we are in the process of really becoming a church.