Thursday, March 12, 2009

Amazon Outreach PCA Update

We are on our way back to Manaus.  We will first stop in Parintins to fuel up and Lord willing will be back to Manaus by late Friday night or early Saturday morning.  This team has worked from dawn until night every day.  The last two days in the villages were right out of the Bible!  We had the blessing of working primarily in Varrevento and also El Shaddai.  The water well in El Shaddai was completed and we had a phenomenal praise and worship service with the church there last night.  Rick Briscoe, Landen and Heather sang Revelation Song A Capella + Rick sang How Great Thou Art.  The people in the village were Blown Away by that level of talent.
 
Yesterdays ministry included VBS, giving out eyeglasses, powerful ministry to men (best I have EVER seen - as many came to Christ - this is rare in a village for the men to have the courage to profess faith in Christ), dentistry, medical statuion, manicures, completing the water well...  One of the other special things that happened was that there was a woman that was extremely ill and needed to be transported to Parintins for us to care for her.  She was in a very difficult place to reach - up on a hill so Brandon Briscoe, Mike and Michael Shell had to hand carry her on a stretcher down a pretty treacherous hill.  It was a scene from Scripture.
 
We had a special time of prayer for Cody Novak today as he has his chemotherapy treatments.  We have a special video greeting from the kids in the village for Cody!!!
 
We have thousands of pictures and it hard to capture all of them for you over satellite so I am sending one of our trip leader Landen Ellis with a girl in a village today.
 
God has been very faithful.  We are so thankful for each and every prayer.
 
Christ Is Life!  Johnson Ellis
 
Visit www.amazonoutreach.com to learn more about this powerful ministry of Christ and to see how you can be involved!

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