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Yesterday was a very good day. After taking care of Bryan’s passport renewal
I was able to invest my time for the Lord’s cause and organize several
ministries. I instructed the secretary of the National
Bible School
about communicating with the nuclei of the school outside Belo
Horizonte (Rio de Janeiro, Belo
Jardim, Cuiabá, Uberlândia, Manaus).
I also encouraged her to help us think of ways to involve all seventeen
congregations in greater Belo
Horizonte in all levels of the school: students,
teachers and administration.

Much of the afternoon was invested in communication with my
supporting churches, scheduling our furlough itinerary. This is a very
time-consuming task, which takes weeks or months to plan and work out. Our
twenty churches, more or less, are scattered from Jackson,
AL in the south to Plattsburgh,
NY in the north to Abilene, TX
in the west. They are located in the states of AL, TN, KY, IL, IN, VA, PA, NY
and TX. We try to make a schedule of travels that places each church at a time
that would facilitate visiting churches in their area and beyond. As we travel
from TN to the north, for example, we try to schedule the churches in IN and IL
on the same Sunday, the churches in VA, PA and NY the next week. On the way, we
visit family. David, Wren and Judah plan to be in school at Cincinnati, OH
by the time we make the trip north, so we plan to pass by their house for a day
or two. Lashonda, Vinicius and Adam are at Freed-Hardeman
University in Henderson, TN.
My mother, brother and sister live in Demopolis,
AL. We plan to visit all of these
while we visit churches in their areas. Each church is distinct, with its own
style of life, customs, communications and expectations. We have to be prepared
emotionally and with different information for each visit. The Lord gave me the
gift of adaptability. Not everyone in our family received this gift in great
proportions.

Last evening we attended the worship at Venda Nova, the site
of the evangelistic campaign. There were again six first-time visitors. The
worship was encouraging and evangelistic. The sermon dealt with the necessity
of allowing the Word of God to direct us to salvation in Christ.

Eddison