Day Two!

Bon Dia from the Linda Esperanca,

Yesterday was another great day for our team! We went to the village Nossa Senhora do Perpetuo Socorro and had a full day of work there. We got off the boat nice and early and set up medical, women's ministry and VBS. In VBS we did the skit of the Angel setting Peter free from Prison, Will made a great (and rather large angel) the kids absolutely loved it! The women's ministry has been going very well and Mrs Delph was able to sit down with all the women of the village yesterday and have an incredible time of prayer and discussion, what a blessing!

One thing that has been such an amazing encouragement to me after going on trips all these years is the similar stories we have been hearing the past two days that I'm sure will bless many of you as well. At both villages we have talked to people and yesterday to one woman in particular who was so excited to have our boat stop in her village because everyone there recognized the boat well. They knew the Linda Esperanca because every time it passed someone would throw out balloons with candy and Bible verses. This women had saved all the Bible verses from inside the balloons and had her daughter teach her how to read so that she could understand. She said before we came she did not know what this boat did but she knew it had to be something great because the simple balloons had blessed her and her people so much. Hearing this story blew my mind because after 8 trips I never realized how much of an impact this simple ministry had! Glory be to God for showing up in an awesome way yesterday. The entire team agreed that the Holy Spirit was present in the village and we really felt God moved in the lives of the people there. Please continue to pray for health and safety for our team!

In Christ,

Landen Ellis

P.S. Johnson Ellis, could you please forward this email to Jeff Hurt (Jhurt@sw-credit.com) so that he can send the last two emails on to our family members not registered for the blog! Obrigada!