Catching up with ourselves

Check out these tidbits about family and work over the past week or so.

• Vicki had some exams done last week, the results of which we’re supposed to call about today. Medical exams generate concern, so we’re praying for good news.
• My seminar in Prazeres weekend before last was well received, and I came back with a bad sunburn. Today, the peeling phase.
• This past weekend was the National Encounter for Christian Workers; I went Friday only and heard four good lessons from Brazil brethren. A sour note: they had a two-man praise team leading, and at one point one of them extolled how essential new songs and praise teams were to a congregation’s “praise” (= singing).
• I carted people out with me to the Mt. of Olives youth camp where the NECW was held: Wagner, a young Christian at SJC, we whisked up on the Dutra highway before leaving town; Haroldo, a Christian from Taubaté, whom I picked up at the SJC bus station; Luciano Campos, evangelist from Prazeres, who was waiting on us at the Guarulhos airport.
• Leila was also in the car. I carried her to a young ladies’ event held simultaneously at a rented facility just outside the city of Embu Guaçu, where the youth camp is also located.
• Saturday, Vicki and I zipped into São Paulo to pick up Leila at the 9th of July church building, on return from the young ladies’ event.
• I’m racing to finish (i.e., start) my manuscript for the missionary retreat which has to be turned in by April 1st.
• A Brazilian brother has written and self-published a 344-page commentary on the book of Revelation. I have three boxes of them to pass on to others at cost.
• Sunday I preached at SJC in my series “The Attitudes of Jesus,” on “Jesus, the Failure.” At Taubaté, I closed out the “Dead and Dying” series with “Jesus, the Resurrected.”
• After 8 years, my barber raised his rates for men’s haircuts from R$10 to R$12. I honestly don’t know how he kept from upping his price before now.
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