Rodrigues Update

  Boa Vista, August 11th 2009

Dear Friends,

We praise the Lord we are all well!  Unfortunately our time in town is coming to an end but we have enjoyed ourselves. We are now starting preparations to return to Novo Demini. Our flight had been scheduled for this coming Thursday the 13th, but we felt like we needed a few more days so we re-scheduled for the 20th.

This will be just a real quick note. We want to thank all of you who have been praying for us! We especially want to thank those of you who were praying for us to find the two lost solar panels. Once again God was good and took care of everything. We were finally able to find out where they were being stored in Manaus and had someone pick them up. Joao had to make a quick trip to Manaus so was able to bring them back with him. They were both fine and no damage was done to them.

Our time in town as been refreshing and we have enjoyed our time as a family. We were able to buy a small bicycle for Nathan so he has really enjoyed riding that around the yard here. He has been getting better at it everyday, but of course still has to count on the training wheels or I think he would have broken an arm or leg by now.  Once in a while Ryan gets brave enough and gets up on the little back seat of Nathan's bike, but usually he just tries to push his brother's bicycle around or stay out of the way so he doesn't get run over.

We hope you are all well and really appreciate your prayers and support! Thanks so much! Because of Jesus, João, Hope, Nathan and Ryan