Our Amazon Amor Team and Amazon Outreach Team

This is our Amazon Outreach and boat team. We could not have done it without them. Please continue to pray for all of them as they serve other teams and for Erika, Emmanuelle and Vanderley (pictured on far right).

The Amazon Region

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11

The Beautiful Children of the Amazon

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.(Matthew 18:12-14 ESV)

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.(Matthew 18:2-6 ESV)

Erika, Vanderley and Their Daughter Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle, whom everyone loves...........she entertained us all!

Vanderley, ministering to the people of the village. This is a man who truly loves the Lord and he and Erika are a great mission team dedicated to spreading the Gospel in the Amazon. Continue to pray for them and little Emmanuelle as they do God's work. It is not easy with a two year old to do all that is required of them.

Erika, Emmanuelle and a village girl at our first VBS. Emmanuelle is the two year old daughter of Erika and Vanderley. She celebrated her second birthday on June 9th.

Dedication of Library

Vanderley and Jay and the famous ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the libaray.

The signing of the books by various team members.

The library. They don't have many books, but the cases of books we sent there willl certainly help fill shelves with much needed reading material for the villagers. This library is for their use to come and sit and read.

Jay spoke to the villagers during the ceremony about the team, where we were from and about the books and dedication of the library. Norman of course interpreted.

This was our first night in the village in which Erika and Vanderley primarily minister. The books that had been sent were being placed in the library. Standing next to Vanderley (behind pulpit) is Norman, who was part of the Amazon Outreach team.

Erika and Vanderley before we opened the box of books to dedicate the library.

Amazon Blessings

The 2010 team from Eastwood truly has seen God act in mighty ways. We learned a lot about each other and about ourselves. We truly learned how blessed we are to live in a country like America and how we take so much for granted without thinking that but for the grace of God, we could have been born in another country............a remote Amazon village. But, His hand was on all of us and His work is on going. We must keep Erika and Vanderley in our prayers as well as those in the villages we visited. The true message of salvation through Jesus Christ must prevail over some of the false doctrine that has been introduced to some of these people.

Please pray for them.................let's not forget them and those in all parts of our own country and other countries. We may never know the impact we had on anyone we met, but we do know that what we did, we did to the glory of God and God will work all things for good for the beautiful people of the Amazon.

Watch for more pictures tomorrow.

VBS In The Amazon

A picture is worth a thousand words............

The youth enacted Daniel and The Lions Den and the children loved it. Our youth did an outstanding job and were highly creative. Parents you are so blessed.

One of our translators was Camilla.............she and our other VBS translator, Raquel, were a true blessing to us and were a critical part of the VBS team. We thank God for sending them to us.

Our youth came up with the idea to use materials we found, bulletin board border. to make a crown for King Darius (Daniel and the Lions Den story) and for the precious children of Paradiso (Paradise).