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2026 Update Archive

  Here is a list of our 2024 update links to our PDF files.  (I hope that they are all here.)  We also have some Youtube videos and Facebook posts available.  And personal emails are always a great way to keep in touch.  If you would like to have a video call with a Sunday school class or church service, just let us know.  Since these are posted online, any email, phone, or address information has been removed.  Please email us if you are looking for something specific.

2024 Update Archive

 Here is a list of our 2024 update links to our PDF files.  (I hope that they are all here.)  We also have some Youtube videos and Facebook posts available.  And personal emails are always a great way to keep in touch.  If you would like to have a video call with a Sunday school class or church service, just let us know.  Since these are posted online, any email, phone, or address information has been removed.  Please email us if you are looking for something specific.   2023_11 End of Previous year newsletter   2024_01 2024_04 2024_06 2024_07 2024_09 2024_10 2024_12

2025 Newsletter Archive

Here is a list of our 2025 update links to our PDF files.  (I hope that they are all here.)  We also have some Youtube videos and Facebook posts available.  And personal emails are always a great way to keep in touch.  If you would like to have a video call with a Sunday school class or church service, just let us know.  Since these are posted online, any email, phone, or address information has been removed.  Please email us if you are looking for something specific. 2025_02 2025_03 2025_06 2025_08 2025_09 2025_11 2025_12 2025_12 End of year video update 2025_10 BONUS Our new puppy
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  Together for Thanksgiving and Ipueiras, Our future Home I cannot imagine what it is like to have a family that doesn't want to be together, especially for the Holidays.  We are most thankful to the good Lord that we were able to spend Thanksgiving with our kids.  We love them.  They love us.  We all love each other.  I don't want to make it sound Facebook airbrushed perfect, but it is a real good thing.  This togetherness is even bigger when you consider that in January, only four of us are heading back to our new adventure. Now that we have some insight and 14 years of experience, our desire is to start a new church plant with the wisdom that we have so painstakingly learned.   Mistakes made will be changed and successful tactics will be repeated.   In October of 2023 we moved to the town of Nova Russas to work with one of our well-established interior churches.   Our goal will be to train and lead a team from the church to evangeli...
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Todd & Julie with (Left to right) Michaela, Levi, Samuel, and Lilyanne The scene is rustic: dirt floors, clay brick and mud walls, and a red tile roof with bare rafters. Inside there are men, women and children, and a couple chickens, listening to the speaker who is using a single microphone plugged into an amp. The speaker is a humble man, speaking in the local dialect of Portuguese. People around there know him as a farmer. But when he’s not working the fields, he is witnessing to his neighbors at the market and studying his well-worn Bible getting ready for the Sunday evening message. He also spends his evenings listening to his beloved radio on the porch very loudly so every one who walks by can hear. You see, this man came to know Christ not through a missionary but through that radio. In fact, he’d never seen a missionary before, until he wrote a letter to Harvest Radio station asking for someone to come and teach him more about his new-found faith. The teaching h...