Back in Brazil and with Exciting News!

Groomsmen on wedding day!

The graduation was nice and it was great to see all the great improvements to ORU.  But the best part of the trip to Tulsa was seeing you!  The weekend Encounter with God retreat was a huge success, praise the Lord, and again while in IL we got to see lots of you.  And finally the wedding in California was fun and beautiful!  Got to see lots of my Huber family, and even some of my Hrubik family who I had only met for the first time when I was at ORU several years ago!  So congratulations to Isaiah and Erin, and to everyone I got to see it was so much fun and thanks so much for everything!

Isaiah & Erin Huber

And now some interesting/exciting news: I’m going to be moving to Fortaleza in the beginning of August!  My uncle Abe (my mom’s youngest brother) who started our largest church here, moved to Fortaleza with his top leaders and started a new church in Fortaleza several years ago.  In about 3 years the church has grown to 1800 members and their goal is to have 5,000 members by the end of 5 years.  Recently, they have been feeling the Lord telling them to really develop their media department and they also felt like I was supposed to be the one to help with that.  So they called up my parents, and almost immediately my parents felt the same thing!  After a couple months of praying and talking about it, the decision became final.  I’m training up two leaders in the cell group to take over, one for when we multiply and one for the one I’m currently leading.  I’m going to be handing over the water filter project to Ken & Isaura Orr, who already have been in training for this before we knew this was going to happen.  I hope to see the English school started before I leave and the No Appologies project running.

So what does this mean?  I’m going to be super busy getting all these details sorted out before I leave.  I still don’t know where I’m going to stay in Fortaleza, being that I’ve never been there before, but I imagine I’ll split the rent with some other guys in an apartment.  I’ll be needing to buy a vehicle for transportation, buying my own food, paying electric and water bills, etc, so now is when I’m going to really be needing support.  I would like to ask you to pray about being a part of this ministry and supporting me financially as I start this new challenge! There are several ways to give (all tax-deductible) and all are listed in one convenient location…the PAZ website (this link will take you directly to the donation page).  My goal (with advice from my leadership) is to raise US$2,000 per month.  I’m currently at US$500/month and I’ll keep you updated.  Thanks so much to you all!  You are a a huge part of the revival happening in Brazil, and I can’t wait for a chance for you to come down and see what all you are doing!

More later!
Paul

Map of some PAZ bases