Thursday, June 22, 2006
Reformed Baptist Congress, Volta Redonda, RJ 14-17 June
Our journey to Rio was a good one.
1,2 A beautiful dawn start, with a great view of Florioanópolis city centre and the North of the Island, before a brief stop in São Paulo.
3 The TAM staff were wearing silly yokel hats in Brazil colours, for the Festa Juninha and the World Cup.
4 The line up of GOL planes at Congonhas shows the strength of the company - and the collapse of Varig in the domestic market.
5,6 In two shots of the approach into Rio the Sugar Loaf, Corcovado (with the statue of Christ) and the Maracanã Stadium can all be seen.
7-9 For the first time we followed the most interesting trajectory into Santos Dumont airport, coming in over a shoulder of the Corcovado, banking hard in front of the Sugar Loaf before touching down on the incredibly short runway. The photo of a TAM plane doing just this was taken last November: this time we were inside.
Volta Redonda - we stayed just by the largest steel plant in Latin America.
Evening meeting - Bob and Cathy Selph at front. Bob was the main speaker at the event, ably interpreted by Daniel Deeds. His ministry majored on the place of the Moral Law, seen as the Ten Commandments, in the life of reformed baptists, along with other aspects of church life and polity.
Friends 1
Friends 2
The youth
The official organisation of the Igreja Batista de Fé Reformada in Volta Redonda occurred after the end of the congress, with most people staying on and others arriving to participate in the solemnities / festivities. Here members of the church stand together, with their Pastor, Paulo César Valle at the front right. The church has a site, still under the original name: Congregação dos Peregrinos em Volta Redonda.
Paulo e Deise and their three lovely children.
A Brazilian church celebration would be nothing without cake and balloons!
On our way home.
For the first time we took off in the westerly direction from Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro. Despite the filthy state of the window, the view was still worth recording. While in the air the pilot kept us updated with news of the Brazil v Australia game. It was scoreless until we were on the approach to Congonhas airport, when Andrew spotted the smoke of a firework below us, and knew that Brazil has just scored.
We had quite a long wait in the departure lounge at Congonhas, catching the last part of the hard-fought Brazil v Australia match. It is nice to watch with a crowd. Notice the preponderance of Brazil colours.
And so home, landing after sunset, to be welcomed by Rafael and Greyse from the Peregrinos, bearing placards saying, ANDREW and CORA. Students don't change much!
Our journey to Rio was a good one.
1,2 A beautiful dawn start, with a great view of Florioanópolis city centre and the North of the Island, before a brief stop in São Paulo.
3 The TAM staff were wearing silly yokel hats in Brazil colours, for the Festa Juninha and the World Cup.
4 The line up of GOL planes at Congonhas shows the strength of the company - and the collapse of Varig in the domestic market.
5,6 In two shots of the approach into Rio the Sugar Loaf, Corcovado (with the statue of Christ) and the Maracanã Stadium can all be seen.
7-9 For the first time we followed the most interesting trajectory into Santos Dumont airport, coming in over a shoulder of the Corcovado, banking hard in front of the Sugar Loaf before touching down on the incredibly short runway. The photo of a TAM plane doing just this was taken last November: this time we were inside.
Volta Redonda - we stayed just by the largest steel plant in Latin America.
Evening meeting - Bob and Cathy Selph at front. Bob was the main speaker at the event, ably interpreted by Daniel Deeds. His ministry majored on the place of the Moral Law, seen as the Ten Commandments, in the life of reformed baptists, along with other aspects of church life and polity.
Friends 1
Friends 2
The youth
The official organisation of the Igreja Batista de Fé Reformada in Volta Redonda occurred after the end of the congress, with most people staying on and others arriving to participate in the solemnities / festivities. Here members of the church stand together, with their Pastor, Paulo César Valle at the front right. The church has a site, still under the original name: Congregação dos Peregrinos em Volta Redonda.
Paulo e Deise and their three lovely children.
A Brazilian church celebration would be nothing without cake and balloons!
On our way home.
For the first time we took off in the westerly direction from Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro. Despite the filthy state of the window, the view was still worth recording. While in the air the pilot kept us updated with news of the Brazil v Australia game. It was scoreless until we were on the approach to Congonhas airport, when Andrew spotted the smoke of a firework below us, and knew that Brazil has just scored.
We had quite a long wait in the departure lounge at Congonhas, catching the last part of the hard-fought Brazil v Australia match. It is nice to watch with a crowd. Notice the preponderance of Brazil colours.
And so home, landing after sunset, to be welcomed by Rafael and Greyse from the Peregrinos, bearing placards saying, ANDREW and CORA. Students don't change much!
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