Day #3

Dear Family and Friends,

Day 3 of ministry has just come to a close and once again it was such a blessing! Everyone is still healthy and safe praise God! Today we worked at Sao Pedro and it was a pretty large village. For those of you familiar with the area the we have been working in is about an hour speed boat ride away from Itacoatira. Our ministry schedule was similar to the past few days and I got to spend some time sitting in on discussion with the teenage girls! It was such a blessing seeing how well they received the message from the Chapada team.

Katie Johnson, one of our team members had a neat experience in the village today. "A group of us had the opportunity to go into two different homes and share the Gospel with two families. They were so sweet and joyful, and were very encouraged by everything we had to tell them. Later on in the afternoon, one of the familes that we had the opportunity to talk to came and found me, and the mother left her two young children with me the rest of the day. The little boy, Kyle, was one of the most joyful boys I had ever seen. His smile and presence made my entire day. Even though I wasn't able to communicate with words, it meant a lot that he still wanted to stay with me the rest of the day, and wouldn't leave my side!"

One thing that Mr Delph has told us is "Share the gospel and use words only when you have to". This phrase is really cool because despite the language barrier I have witnessed so many of these college kids communicating God's love through their actions. We are studying the power of the Holy Spirit and reading Francis Chan's 'Forgotten God' which has really opened our eyes to how great our God is and how He has been in the Amazon long before we got here. We are so blessed to have the opportunity to love on the people in these villages! Keep up the prayers for health and safety, they are working! Time for alligator hunting! Tchau! :)

In Christ,

Landen Ellis

(Please forward on to Jeff Hurt)