Oi (hello) from Belo!! We've been here in Brazil for almost two weeks already! (this saturday marks it..so crazy) But our time here in Belo Horizonte has been absolutely amazing so far!! God has been so good and we have heard so many stories of different kids, along with cool testimonies of God's redemption in people's live here.
We have been working with YWAM Belo and it has been absolutely amazing! God has so had his hand on this ministry. They run 9 different houses each one specific to something different than the others and all located in different places. We are staying at what's called the Rescue House, who works mainly with street kids. So that's what we have spent a lot of our time doing. We have gone to a detention center and ran programs there with dramas, testimonies, and worship. Gone out onto the streets multiple times at night and just hung out with the kids in a park area and played cards or jumped rope or hung out. And when we aren't doing that we have been visiting the different houses and ministries they have here. We've had the opportunity to walk through a favela (slum) here and pray over areas and for people and watch as Edwardo and his wife (who run that particular ministry) go out and just love on the people. It's so amazing the way that in all of these ministries a relationship with the community has been built and even though the kids are drug traffickers or have killed people or are addicted there's a love and respect that's been built and God has so just blessed it and put his hand upon this place. He's really doing something amazing here with these people.
Just a sweet quick story of His glory for you guys...yesterday we were doing intercession in the morning with the staff here (who is phenomenal by the way..so amazing everyone of them!!) and they were telling us how on Monday they felt like God wanted them to go into the old woman's house next door and worship and pray in her home. (now something you need to know about this woman...she has dementia and gets screaming fits sometimes even if it's the middle of the night...so she's been having a hard time for a while now) So they start doing announcements right and all of a sudden someone is banging on the door...so a guy here goes and checks it out and he's oh it's just the neighbor...and comes back..so then Debbie another staff member goes out and sees what's up..and turns out she was wondering around and she had her bags packed and was gonna try and go travel somewhere or something like that...so she brought her inside...and we got to worship over her and pray for her..and then someone asked if we could worship in her home and stuff...and she was totally game so we got to go over and worship and pray in her house...and totally just let God bless it and invite Him in even more and just go for it! It was so cool! God is so cool! So yeah there's one quick story...God's just been doing awesome things. He's pretty amazing if you ask me.Anyways continue to pray for our time here that God would really just show us how to serve and love in the way that is best for this place and these people and these ministries. Also be praying for energy and just refreshment everyday as we are going out. And please pray for this ministry, the staff, this city, and these kids as God is doing something big here and his love is being poured out. There's so much need for renewed mindsets and motivation to get off the streets and stop using drugs. So please be praying for them. Hope you have a great day...blessings!!
