Prayer and Worship

I spoke to Tim this afternoon (Sunday), and the team is still waiting on 3 bags (2 donation bags and 1 personal bag) to arrive. Thank you so much for your prayers for the bags to arrive. Thank you also for your prayers for the safe return of teh first team, as they arrived home safely late last night. Hopefully, the airline can locate the bags that are still missing before the second team heads down river. Please pray that these bags arrive before the boat leaves tonight!

The team spent today in meditation, rest and worship. They spent the morning together as a group planning and praying for the week, and tonight they are worshipping at our partner church in Manaus. What an amazing experience it is to worship with fellow Christians in another part of the world and hear them sing praise to God in Portuguese! Whether the songs are familiar or not, you cannot help but join in and feel the presence of the Lord in that place and give praise for how awesome and big God is!

Immediately after church the American team as well as the Brazilian team and translators from the church will board buses headed for the docks and the boat. They will journey all night to reach their first village.

How can you pray for the team today?
- That the 3 bags still missing arrive tonight before the team boards the boat
- For the boat crew as they journey down river throughout the night and that God will guide their way down the dark river
- For boldness for both the Americans and Brazilians as they spend their first evening together getting to know each other to build team synergy and unity
- For the hearts of the people in the first village they will visit that they will be open to hearing about God's free gift of grace and be transformed because of it

Blessings,
Angela Ardis
(Brazil trip - August 2007)

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." - Ephesians 2:8-10