Updates 11/07/06 (Tom Stowe)

Hello to everyone back in the states. I hope everything is well. Life in Brazil is good. It has gotten much more routine here which is both good and bad. Routine is good because it allows you to anticpate things during your week and prepare better for them. But you never want to be completely into a routine, because you can get lazy and too comfortable.

Our church is doing pretty well here. We (Pastor David and I) are just praying that the believers that we have right now in our church will be strengthened and grow up more in the Lord; we want to see Pastors and missionaries raised up from our church. But we feel that for that to happen, we really need to focus our attention on the lives our members and give them all we have to offer, as little as it may be. If we are faithful in this, we believe the Lord will raise up leaders to be sent out and spread Bible teaching churches and ministries all over the country. That is my goal, hope and vision for my life down here in Brazil: to see leaders raised up and send out all over the country, multipling disciples everywhere.

So here's the question to you: what are you doing to help raiase up disciples where you live? Pray and ask the Lord for wisdom in this, for both you and us here!

In Christ,
Tom