The Smiths
Missionaries to Londrina, Brazil
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February 8, 2005
S. David & Geri Smith
Your Church Planting Missionaries Serving
With Baptist Mid-Missions In Londrina Brazil
Dear Praying Amigos
In Brazil they say that the New Year only begins after Carnival [Marti Grass]. I’m am glad that this is Carnival weekend so we can get the church year going full steam ahead.
Carnival Camp-in
This year we will be having the teen girls over at our house from Friday evening until Wednesday morning. Pray that the Lord would work in our teens’ lives during this time.
2005 Summer Youth Camp
As many churches in the USA are planning their 2005 Summer Youth camp, we here in the Southern hemisphere where the seasons are opposite are recovering from ours. We took 8 of our youth 6 hours away to Curitiba for a camp that the churches were holding there. Geri and I dropped the kids off at camp and then we took a few days off ourselves.
Aging Too Quickly. Too Many Parties
Our church is officially two years old now. We started the church on January 4, 2003. Everybody loves a good homecoming day, so we are going to have two this year for the same church. That’s right, we are going to commemorate our actual anniversary of this church twice. On February 20th we will commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the inauguration of our church. We are going to call that service the Ebenezer service. Then, in September, we will commemorate the third anniversary of this church. We started holding services in a home in September 2002 before we finished up the construction of the building.
Ebenezer Service (2nd Anniversary)
In a few weeks we will have our next baptism and we will receive new member. We have two to be baptized and another four adults to become members.
More Help Is On the Way
Last month I was approached by one of my preacher boys from Curitiba. He and his wife just graduated from Bible college there. Guto and his wife want to come and work with us here in Londrina. They want to raise some monthly support and then come work for us for “free.” I have never had that before, but I think I like the idea of it. Pray for them as they raise support to come over and help us here in our own Macedonia.
Bus Ministry With No Bus
This weekend we will be starting a bus ministry at our work. We just don’t have a bus and have no plans to purchase one. We plan on walking them in. Pray for us as we make contacts and start working with new families. We want our church to be an aggressive work.
Your Missionaries With A Vision
S. David Smith
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Baptist Mid-Missions
P.O. Box 308011
Cleveland, OH 44130-8011
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