Day 4 - Costa Do Barroso (Muddy Coast)

After traveling several hours Tuesday night, we arrived at "Muddy Coast"
village...which lives up to its name. It was another wonderful day of
medical, dental, eyeglass, VBS, door-to-door, and Women's and Men's
ministries in the morning and afternoon, and a service at 5:00 pm complete
with singing, drama, sin solution illustration (by Ellie and Kenzie), and
Joe Foster sharing the gospel. What a blessing to see our team using their
gifts to reach as many as possible in Costa Do Barroso!

Tonight we provided our crew and translators with a Tex-Mex dinner (queso,
chips, tortillas, fajita fixins, brownies, and a small gift)...thank you
Costco! It was a sweet time of encouragement and thanks for how faithfully
and selflessly they serve. We celebrated the birthday of one of the cooks
and one of the translators with cake and gifts. We served them, we cleaned
dishes, gave them the night off, then we ate and cleaned our own mess.
Great reminder of how hard it is to do what they do EVERYDAY!

It's down the river 10 min. to the same village...just one of those long
narrow villages that never seems to end! We'll spend the afternoon in Bella
Vista, the home church of one of the missionary pastors serving with us this
week. There we will share the gospel door-to-door as well as participate in
an outreach to the community through a service at night. We were hoping to
swim in at what we thought would be a beautiful lake to enjoy (dark instead
of muddy water), but was told the locals named this lake, Lake Alligator, so
we all agreed we would rather hunt the alligators rather than be hunted...so
that's what we'll do! Three groups will hunt on Thursday and three on
Friday.

What a blessing it is to see God show up in so many ways...our worship has
been special, our service has been meaningful, the love shown in the
villages and on the boat has been plentiful, and the nightly discussions and
prayer times have been rich. Thank you to those who continue to pray for
this trip and for those who have made it financially possible for us to be
here.