Last Sunday we went out of town to visit another Baptist Church. We took two nationals with us that were raised in this community: our friend and pastor João Sulude and Ismania, a lady that I have met a few times at the women's conferences. We enjoyed their company and insights on the ride.
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| Heading out of town |
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| We enjoyed singing with João and Ismania on the way. |
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| When we arrived we found a large church full of people |
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| Love the cheerleading suit! |
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| Order of worship |
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Both the youth and the women did a song and dance thing.
Here is Lilly and Emma getting a bit tired of sitting. |
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Lee getting ready to preach....but first he had to embarrass his great friend João,
by saying good things about him and forcing him to translate this into Chuabo. |
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| Preaching (in Portuguese) and translating (into Chuabo) |
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| Sweet faces watching |
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| Some of then are hanging onto every word....others...were sleeping. |
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These young guys were finding the passage in this
little New Testament Bible like we give our children as infants. |
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| After church we went out of shake hands |
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| Then we decided that we would teach the children a song or 2 |
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We were doing "Allelu, Allelu, Allelu, Alleluia, Praise Ye the Lord" in Portuguese.
(Love our faces!) |
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| Lunch is about ready |
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After we sang for a while we started playing "Duck, Duck, Goose"
except that they don't really have geese so we do "Duck, Duck, Chicken" |
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| In the process we found this 2 week old baby |
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| Waiting to play |
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| Meghan going a great job playing! |
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| Lilly doing a great job helping! |
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| Lee, a machete and a coconut |
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| Just hanging out waiting for lunch |
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| Another sweet baby that I found |
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| Time for lunch |
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| Can you tell how hot it is? |
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| rice and chicken sauce |
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| Enjoying village rice |
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| She ate 2 plates! |
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| Hanging out until it is time to leave |
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| The Church |
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| Sweet girl |
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| These sweet kids were waiting outside for us while we ate. |
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| How cute is she! |
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| They gave us an offering of a chicken, a bag of rice and some coconuts |
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| No fear! |
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While we were driving back home we noticed these dome-shaped houses of straw.
They are temporary houses that people build in the community where their rice field is.
They go and stay there for a few days and then go back home.
Then they do it all over again the next week. |
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| Some of the regular houses were crazy small. |
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| This is a family's home in process.... cool! |
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| Here is one of the rice fields we went through to get back to the main road. |
Tracy
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