Oi from San Benedito,
It's another partly cloudy breezy day. We awoke to another magnificent sunrise on the river,
Amazon Outreach has not visited this village before. It is small, maybe 4-5 families live here, however, word
spread very quickly that we were here and people from the neighboring village came over. Word travels fast
on the river and families started arriving by boat before 8:00 a.m. for medical and dental care. Between 8am
and noon, the medical team saw 105 people and prescribed many meds to help with infections, worms, and
other conditions. Our dental team was very busy pulling teeth, literally. We noticed a woman listening to Pastor's message to the Men,
she had been at the Woman's ministry meeting in San Antonio the day before and had travelled to this village to see us again, her name was Luci.
Phyllis, Linda, Della and Peggy took her aside to speak with her. She had heard the gospel before and
believed but was uncertain of her eternal destiny. Luci is certain of that now!
The men received fishing packets and heard a word from Pastor Abimael. We had about 27 children at VBS,
it was their first VBS experience. Rosalee our dentist worked on patients all morning along with Leslie. We
also provided eye glasses to about 26 villagers.
Rose, a member of our crew, an interpreter, was working at the eyeglass station, part of the reading test is
scripture verses, so she asked a lady named Maria about her eternal destiny. A short while later, Maria was
certain of her eternal destiny.
Pastor Abimael wanted us to have some time to swim, so after lunch we did partake and "swam the Am"!
There was a nice sandy beach at this village and a great big tree that many of our more adventerous team
members, Peter, Chris, Jamie, Bethany, Becky and Josiah and even a few translators, Rose and Rachel
climbed up and jumped into the water. It's how the Brazilian's did it, probably much more gracefully though! It
was tons of fun! Many others of the team swam as well.
We made our way to Parintins to drop off Michael and Leah, our young missionaries; and Pastor and his wife.
It was hard to say good bye, they were all such spirit-led leaders. Pastor Abimael became our Pastor for the
days we were here, an excellent Godly leader. We will miss them.
As we are blogging, we saw a dolphin jump out of the water, they don't have pigment in their skin, so they
appear to be pink/translucent color.
Geraldo and another member of our crew took several groups out on the Amazon for some crocodile hunting,
the second trip had success. It was a sight to see Geraldo literally reach out of the small motor boat and grab
a crocodile, albiet a small one, but still reaching your hand in the Amazon in the dark! The sounds of the jungle
were amazing to hear. Tonight and tomorrow, we will be on the move on the boat for 30 hours making our way to Manaus.
Good Night from the Amazon!
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