Day 5

4.20.10

Hello Everyone!

In preparation for tonight's worship workshop, Jason, Jessie, and Risa spent time studying the story of Mary of Bethany who worshiped Christ in the home of Simon from Matthew 26:6-13.

Upon arriving at the church, we circled up about 30 chairs and everyone settled in. Jessie shared the lessons from Mary of Bethany with these four points:
1. Worship is a response to God
2. Worship is vulnerable and personal
3. Our worship often manifests in a gift or act of devotion
4. In an atmosphere of worship, Jesus is in our midst and responds with delight

A highlight of the worship devotional teaching of Jessie was how the Lord encorporated Mariana, Sammy and Marcia´s daughter to partner with us as an interpreter. Little did we know in the sovereign plan of God, that this 24 year old woman, who attended Awanas and Tweens at Hope in the mid-late 1990s, was the reason for their return to Brazil in the first place when she was 12 years old and now is being used at the church here in Bom Retiro with her mom and dad.

After the teaching, Risa then taught the the whole group the first half of the song Holiness, a good theme to be talking about with the church here.

After the group singing, we divided into groups. Jessie was able to teach a dance to Lord I Lift Your Name On High. The dancing group had all different ages--from mothers to young children to one brave 7 year old boy! They picked up the moves very quickly and were very eager to worship the Lord in dance.

Risa took a group of about 6 people upstairs to work more on guitar and singing and they concluded with a sweet time of worship.

We all stayed at the church until about 10:30pm spending time with some girls and talking with Paola a special 16 year old gir and her heart for missions.

Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD.
Psalm 150:6

Thank you for your prayers!

-Risa, Jason, Jessie

PS
Risa´s 4 favorite things about today: Waking up to a Brazilian thunderstorm, Bible Study with Jake and Jessie, worship in Portuguese with Christen´s guitar, and everything I ate for dinner had lime juice on it :)