We had an American visitor these past 10 days, Melody! Melody is connected to our ministry in a number of ways: a member at Briarwood, visited the ministry in Thailand 4 times, and became a Christian through the ministry when she was in college. She supports us as well. This was her first trip to Brazil and we put her to work! By the time she left, she had taught cooking classes, sewing classes, spoken at a mini-retreat, "lunched" and/or "dinnered" with 80 percent of the girls at our church, rock climbed, babysat, tried a variety of very interesting and delicious Brazilian foods, as well as cleaned my kitchen numerous times! Here are some of the pictures from Melody's trip:
Shopping for all the needed ingredients for the week, i.e. fresh cheese!
Fixing homemade fettuccini alfredo for our team
Part of our team - those in town- came over to meet Melody and enjoy Italian food.
Cooking class with students: chicken marsala, mashed potatoes, and broccoli
Cute recipe cards Melody made for the girls that came
Our discussion group topic for this past Thursday with students was "How good is good enough?" We had incredible discussion about the gospel through using an analogy of a very common Brazilian drink, chocolate milk! We agreed that when chocolate powder (sin) enters a cup of milk (mankind) - regardless of how much or how little chocolate powder is added - the result is still the same, chocolate milk (sinful man). The milk cannot separate itself from the powder on its own. The solution? Add more pure milk (Christ's righteousness) to gradually decrease the amount of chocolate. The more pure milk added... the less chocolate tasted (sanctification process). The students were so interested and excited about the analogy that everyone who came wanted to take a picture of themselves with milk and chocolate powder to put on Facebook. College students!
Helenice, me, and Monick learning to quilt. Thanks, Melody!
Melody sharing her testimony with Cláudia translating during our Women's Retreat
Craft time! Each girl drew a name and we each decorated a box with colorful napkins and paint for that person...
We also wrote a note to our person and committed to pray for them for a year.
Some of the women/girls from the retreat
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