Archive for March, 2009

Great News!

Published on March 30, 2009 in Prayer & Praise. 6 Comments

Well friends, I have some great news to share with you. Nate and I are expecting! Yippee! Needless to say, we are very excited and so are our parents. I haven’t been to the doctor’s yet, but have an appointment marked for this week. At my last appointment, the doctor stated that it would probably take me a while to conceive, and that I didn’t need to come back until I was pregnant. My mom just looked at him and said, “OK, we’ll be back next month!”

Well, God is so faithful and we are so thankful for his care and provision during this time. I am feeling wonderful – except for a little nausea here and there. I’m a little over 4 weeks along and the due date is the end of November. Nate and I are hoping to go to the US this summer, but we need to wait and talk it all over with the doctor since I’m considered high risk. So, we are praying that God’s perfect will be done.

Abundant Rain

Published on March 25, 2009 in Prayer & Praise. 8 Comments

Cell group had ended at their house, and Renato and Claudete were standing out front, enjoying chit chat with fellow cell group members when a woman and her adolescent daughter came quickly up to them in a panic. Through her wheezing she said “Would you take me to the health post?!” Claudete sensed in her spirit that she should pray for her to be healed. Out loud, she began praying for the lady and her wheezing went away! Then Renato began preaching the gospel and invited her to pray with him. Her daughter was so amazed that she prayed the prayer as well!

Claudete welcomes a new member into the family of God

Claudete welcomes a new member into the family of God

Renato and Claudete are two of our disciples and are a part of the cell group that multiplied from our cell group last October. This cell group, led by fellow missionaries and disciples of ours Edson and Kelly Lee, has been winning people left and right through the amazing work of several of the cell group members, including Renato and Claudete. Now it is ready to multiply- into three different cell groups! You see, they just keep winning people. Last Saturday, when we visited the cell group to supervise (Ruth and I are over this cell group that multiplied from ours), another woman accepted Christ as her savior.

Abundant rain is falling in the Amazon, soaking the hearts of people with God’s love and opening the way for his Word. The week before at cell group, Leo, another one of our disciples, shared the Word. People were so touched by the Word being preached, that they were crying, and even before he could give the invitation, someone said that they wanted to accept Christ as their savior! He then invited other people to do the same, and 4 more people raised their hands!

Marlison, Me and Juarez

Marlison, Me and Juarez

God is moving in our cell group as well. Although we haven’t grown the same amount as the cell group that multiplied from ours, just the other day, as I was leading worship at church, I looked down at the end of the service and saw Juarez, a man who started attending our cell group, had gone forward to accept the Lord! Hallelujah! God is doing an amazing work!

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There and Back Again: The Reutter’s Tale about Rio Branco

Published on March 1, 2009 in Lives. 8 Comments
Let's Fly Away!

Let's Fly Away!

We have a great update for you – the youth retreat in Rio Branco went wonderful! Thank you for all your prayers, for a great retreat, safe travels, and a good time: they were sure answered powerfully. Now come with us and see what our trip was like!

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Traveling Through the Amazon



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Our Trip through the Amazon

We left super early Thursday, Feb 19 – a 2 am flight from here to Manaus, a large city of several million people situated another 500 miles up the Amazon River. This is our preferred entrance point when coming from the States, as it cuts several thousand miles and many hours off of a trip that otherwise goes way far south to São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro.

The amazon river near Manaus is just enormous - planting churches in remote villages like these is expensive and challenging

The amazon river near Manaus is just enormous - planting churches in remote villages like these is expensive and challenging

We arrived in Manaus around 3:30 AM and were graciously picked up by fellow missionaries Grant & Regina Cail and Jim & Julie Benson (actually just Grant and Jim came to the airport!). We crashed at their house and got a few hours of sleep before getting up and touring the new houses they’re building. It’s a beautiful plot of land in a good area of town. The Cails and Benson just recently moved to Manaus from Santarém to help the base develop their medical and church planting program.

The beautiful piece of land where the Cails and Bensons are building

The beautiful piece of land where the Cails and Bensons are building

They live very close to the PAZ campground in Manaus, so we also went there to visit and see around as well. The campground is a nice piece of property in the middle of Manaus, although you wouldn’t be able to tell because the grounds are surrounded by jungle. They also were preparing for their big youth camp. There were lots of great plants and flowers to photograph, so I had a particularly good time!

PAZ's jungle campgrounds in the middle of Manaus

PAZ's jungle campgrounds in the middle of Manaus

Folks, this is how a pinapple grows.

Folks, this is how a pinapple grows.

Jungle foliage is quite festive

Jungle foliage is quite festive

Bees and flowers have got to be one of the oldest love affairs

Bees and flowers have got to be one of the oldest love affairs

That afternoon we left to go to Porto Velho (“Old Port”), where we had a one day layover! Porto Velho is one home to one of our PAZ bases; a city of over a half a million people. It is also capital of the small Brazilian state of Rodônia. We stayed with Pastor Jango and his family. There, we were thrilled to go to a real shopping mall and have real mall food! That may not sound great, but when you’re away from it for over a year, it tastes great! :) We staked out the deals so that when we came back through Porto Velho, we could take advantage and do some necessary shopping.

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