TheGeepster
10-07-2003, 08:40 PM
I've been gone for well over 5 weeks now and perhaps some of you have wondered where I was.
I think I was distracted with a new shift and other things for about a month. Two weeks ago I went on a church mission trip to help with a church in Florionopolis... Santa Catarina... Brasil.
It was great fun expanding their worship area (by destroying existing walls and tiles, quite the opposite of "church building'). I also got to help with treaching sports one day, and spoke with an English class one night. Loved the shihaskarias or meat buffets, which are plentiful and relatively inexpensive.
On the way back we stopped by Rio de Janeiro to see one of their local markets, The H Stern jewkelry store (very nice place, and very bizarre place to shop, since you had to have a card to tour it to begin with.)
We also got to see Sugarloaf Mountain and the Christ Statue, which is second in size only to the Statue of Liberty.
And we all made it back to Dallas Texas last Sunday.
By the way, our ladies did a bang-up jopb of visiting the locals in their homes, winning either 5 or 7 to Christ.
It is noteworthy that Brasil is predominately Catholic, although there is definite signs of mysticism and spiritualism here. (Also saw a couple Mormons along the wayside and learned a bit about Seventh Day Adventists.)
I think I was distracted with a new shift and other things for about a month. Two weeks ago I went on a church mission trip to help with a church in Florionopolis... Santa Catarina... Brasil.
It was great fun expanding their worship area (by destroying existing walls and tiles, quite the opposite of "church building'). I also got to help with treaching sports one day, and spoke with an English class one night. Loved the shihaskarias or meat buffets, which are plentiful and relatively inexpensive.
On the way back we stopped by Rio de Janeiro to see one of their local markets, The H Stern jewkelry store (very nice place, and very bizarre place to shop, since you had to have a card to tour it to begin with.)
We also got to see Sugarloaf Mountain and the Christ Statue, which is second in size only to the Statue of Liberty.
And we all made it back to Dallas Texas last Sunday.
By the way, our ladies did a bang-up jopb of visiting the locals in their homes, winning either 5 or 7 to Christ.
It is noteworthy that Brasil is predominately Catholic, although there is definite signs of mysticism and spiritualism here. (Also saw a couple Mormons along the wayside and learned a bit about Seventh Day Adventists.)