Celebration

Next week, we are having our monthly Women's Day luncheon. After service, the women of the church stick around. We share a meal together and then have a lesson time. For the last year or more, the women have been working through Richard Foster's book on spiritual disciplines. I was asked to give September's lesson, the final one in the series. I will speaking about the spiritual discipline of celebration. It's been a neat topic to explore, and I do have to say, we have had many reasons to celebrate recently in our church family. Let me share a few with you.

This is Gisele, our newest sister in Christ. She is 14, a member of our youth group, and this is us praying over her before her baptism. Leandro, her cousin is on her left and Dona Dulce, her grandmother is on her right.

Here is Leandro, her cousin who was just baptized in August baptizing Gisele in the ocean across the street from our church building.

We all surround Gisele to pray over her again after she comes out of the water.

We had a barbecue for all of our small groups at church. This is several of us playing Uno Attack. It was a lot of fun to celebrate together!

And of course, I had to include a picture of baby Calen. Isn't he sweet?

Thanks for reading and joining us in celebrating the good things God is doing here in Salvador! Please pray for my lesson with the women next week and my continued work with the children's ministry and beginner's English classes.