The month of July was a very special month. All this because there are some special things that happened in our schedule and also in our Live stream here in Brazil.
First, I want to talk about the contact I received from the northeast of Brazil coming from Renato André. Renato is only 14 years old, blind, but he has a great love for the word of God. He has not yet converted to Christ, but he is already studying and following our schedule. Daily we have been sending him audios of our daily programs and one of the last ones talked about how he can be baptized and what he needs to do to be saved.
RENATO AND FAMILY
He has really enjoyed the content he has received and despite being very young he already has this love for God and his work. Despite this love, he is the only one in his family who is interested in knowing about God, but he has been striving for that purpose.
One of our projects for the next 5 years is to create materials and content for people who have difficulty reading or are blind. Today we already have and make available the Bible in audio format. We even use it daily at the beginning of our programs. Excellent content recorded and given to us by Cornelius Augusto.
The second good news is about our Live segments. These Live segments are made on Facebook and soon after available on our Instagram and Youtube. You can find out more at www.facebook.com/palavraalegreface and also share it with people who understand the Portuguese language.
In our last Live segment we had our brother in Christ, Vicente Barbosa, as a guest. Vicente has a degree in Social Work and has several activities related to helping and supporting people on the streets, drugs and alcohol. Today he is responsible for the Libertos project, a non-profit project that has the financial help of friends and people who believe in his work. Vicente Barbosa was a drug user for many years and after a long 2 years on the streets he discovered the love of God and left everything behind to recover and today serves God, contributing to the process of recovering lives.
Vicente also has written 2 books which are: Celebrating Sobriety and 30 Days of Sobriety. In our last Live segment we even gave away 3 of his books for 3 Live participants. This Live segment was reached by more than 600 people in just 4 days and will be made available for many others to access and share.
RÔMULO AND VICENTE LIVE
We received these five comments during the broadcast:
- I am so blessed for this brother! We have taken this journey of sobriety as a family and it has been a blessing!! Isabel Cristina
- Give glory to God for the life of Vicente and everyone who has been blessed through his work! Elizabeth Soares
- Vicente is a mission in person. Friend and brother of great value. João Cruz
Congratulations to Vicente and also to Romulo Dante for this initiative Lucio Magalhães - What a testimony of life Vincent’s life is, God is good. Adriano Barbosa
Finally, I want to point out that, in relation to the coronavirus, many people have received the vaccine and we had a considerable drop in deaths here in Brazil. Movies, public events, sports and football stadiums are already starting to reopen, still with limitations, but we are already advancing. Isabel, my wife was vaccinated this last month and so am I, all of us with the first dose of the vaccine, but we are very happy to have received it and to know that many lives are being preserved through the vaccine. We know that we still have a long second half of fights and battles but we are really happy and with good expectations.
Let’s celebrate life and so many people reached last July, people we don’t even know yet but who are being reached by our broadcasts in Portuguese and in all 6 other languages of our programming in Madagascar and Alaska. The Bible tells us in Luke 8:5-15 that a man went out to sow and threw the seeds in various soils, but in verse 15 it says:
But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.
God bless you all
