LARRY PRICE- TESTIMONY
Thanks to so many who have called, prayed and encouraged our family during this glorious time to fullfill the “Great Commission” to go and make disciples in all nations. We arrived home Monday afternoon with a tired team but one that was richly blessed with God’s powerful touch of being “Chosen, Called and finally Sent” to be His ambassadors to Brazil. I am sure we got more of a blessing than we were able to give but only God can know the ultimate answer.
We continued our Bible study on Ephesians to completion on Sunday morning. Rick Bonfim is a gifted man of God and Betty McKinney is an able Bible teacher with a kind and gently heart. After painting Thursday afternoon in the mission we went to Igreja De Nova Vida jardim Alcantara (New Life Church). This was our largest church 200-300 folks and all services start out with a reading from Psalms followed by a hour of praise and worship. Rick preached, Jerrianne Gray gave a testimony on relationship with God and Donnie Hudson preached on Beatitudes. Wow 33 people came forward for salvation and to be baptized to join the fellowship.
Friday we continued to study God’s word and have our praise and worship service each morning followed by study in Ephesians and Romans 12 involving unity of the Body. 7 attributes of “conviction” versus “condemnation” where one lifts up, heals and sets us free to love where the latter discourages, causes sorrow, no joy and stagnates our lives. We have really learned how to live for Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit while down here in Brazil 5000 miles away from our normal daily routine.
After putting the final coat of blue paint on the mission and white paint on the ceiling the mission church is beautiful and refreshing. Charlie the new pastor has a job of rebuilding this congregation and has a willing heart. After supper we went to our last church service ( 7 total) which turned out to be a group of 150-200 with about 60% under age of 30. Haley, Jerrod and Alex , 3 of the teen interns, gave testimonies Rick preached and sang and we had our last “Coca Cola” which was the key word for coming up to the front and lay hands on and pray for the congregations.