Last Sunday 18 we had our seventh conversion. Filipe (22) was baptized three months after his wife. He is the seventh person to turn his life to Jesus in 2010! 

Filipe practiced a common occult Afro religion in Brazil for about two years. He abandoned it, but recently while we were studying the Scriptures, he started having dreams inviting him to return to that old dark path.

On Thursday 22, one of the deacon's son was baptized. He's the eight person! Albert is only 15 but he was very sure of his decision to follow Jesus. His parents were jubilant.

Please, pray that we will take good care of all these spiritual babies. Pray that the enemy won't take away the seed in their hearts.

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Every Saturday morning I'm taking Biblical Hebrew classes at the local State University. It's an attempt to refresh the biblical knowledge I got while at ACU. But the fun part of these classes is that it's ministered in a secular environ by a Catholic Jesuit priest. It's interesting to see how systematic he is in his approach to understand this ancient language. He learned it on his own. He pays attention to every linguistic detail. It reflects his training. However, this ex-priest, I believe, lost sight of the overall picture. The end of studying biblical languages is the message, it's the theology we dig from the text.

Shalom to you all,

Bio and Family