Leia mais...]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:16 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-29_2009-12-05.html#2009_11-30_10_59_40-5176677-0 Last night's service in Patos went well and Ben Price, visiting preacher, spoke excellently. It was a very good challenging message to the church.

Yesterday Deborah's youngest son, Arthur, maintained the family Leia mais...]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:59:40 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-29_2009-12-05.html#2009_11-29_13_19_12-5176677-0 Liz and I fell into bed at 2.40am.  The "Builders of the Future" event was a full-house with all the political leaders and business people Leia mais...]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:19:12 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-28_23_19_05-5176677-0 I wrote and dispatched the EAB Nutshell Update this morning and then this afternoon a flock of over a hundred Chestnut-capped Blackbirds invaded our Moringa trees in our back garden for the first Leia mais...]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:19:05 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-27_22_45_07-5176677-0 People are asking me how my bird watching is going? Well... I now have identified 171 species of which 163 were by photograph and another 8 by song recordings. I registered 4 new species at Caroá and Umburana at the weekend and 13 new species Leia mais...]]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:45:07 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-27_22_18_43-5176677-0 I managed to write my newspaper article this morning and then this afternoon I chaired a lovely interdenominational pastors' fellowship meeting and discussed with Dr. Paula some ideas for the Patos General Hospital. One thing decided was how to Leia mais...]]> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:18:43 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-27_10_26_05-5176677-0 The Brazilian Federal Ministry of Health has just published statistics concerning the HIV/AIDS epidemic which show that whilst things are being brought under control in the larger cities, things are worsening in the north-eastern interior, especially Leia mais...]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:26:05 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-27_08_46_54-5176677-0 Please prepare the runway! EAB's magazine, InTouch, edition 77, complete with the Brazilian equivalent of a 'partridge in a pear tree' on the cover, will be landing on your doorstep at any moment. Editor, Peter White, informs us that our dispatch department Leia mais...]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:46:54 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-26_10_51_15-5176677-0 Marian Rashleigh (Lady Rashleigh as she is known here!) has just been on a visit to the work of EAB here in north-eastern Brazil and is available for talks/presentations etc. at your church, house group or other meetings. She has stacks of Leia mais...]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:51:15 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-26_10_33_45-5176677-0 I am absolutely thrilled with the news that my great friend, Glauco Pereira, who lives in Recife and who is my tutor and 'encyclopedia' regarding Brazilian birds, has passed for the Master's Degree Course in Ecology in first place! Leia mais...]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:33:45 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-25_20_47_30-5176677-0 Liz's brother, Sam, has had knee surgery in Switzerland and is now home recovering. Ivy's sister, Doll, is also home after a time in hospital.

John Lawrence (Southampton) has emailed to say he likes his flip-flops Leia mais...]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:47:30 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-25_13_45_20-5176677-0 Our house suffered a burglary yesterday. We have a store room in the back garden next to the washing machine area and thieves got over the garden wall and stole clothes, suitcases, meat in the freezer etc. We will have to tighten up security as much Leia mais...]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:45:20 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-24_23_35_52-5176677-0 I dispached the ACEV Brazilian weekly update this morning after having a lot of computer problems sorted which held this up.

I also had a very good, wide-ranging, and very long discussion with Pastor Wostenes Leia mais...]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:35:52 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-23_19_01_51-5176677-0 I stayed in bed till 8am, had a shower and breakfast, and got ready for my morning engagement where I was to speak and ask God's blessing on the Patos General Hospital extension inaugurated today. Upon viewing the extension today I can only say that Leia mais...]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:01:51 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-23_18_09_06-5176677-0 Pastor Valdemy's idea to have a celebration service and wedding all in one didn't really work at Caroá last night. We ended up with neither one thing or the other, exacerbated by some other factors as I will explain. We started on time (the Leia mais...]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:09:06 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-22_2009-11-28.html#2009_11-22_19_47_07-5176677-0 I've had a great day at Caroá. This included a visit to Umburana well and church and a baptismal service at Caroá which saw 5 young men baptized and 2 young women. 5 were from the new church plant at Mandacaru, 1 from Olho Daguinha and Leia mais...]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:47:07 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-21_23_15_24-5176677-0 The service went well this evening at Caroá and it was a pleasant surprise to see the Deputy Mayor turn up. He seems to like to hear me preach as he once came to the Manaíra church too and said that's why he came. We first got to Leia mais...]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:15:24 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-21_19_09_51-5176677-0 I spent this morning finishing off my message for tonight and the wedding ceremony for tomorrow. Having gobbled down a quick meal I left Patos with Policeman/deacon João Batista, Deaconess Josinete, HIV Team member Márcia and 16 Leia mais...]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:09:51 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-20_22_40_11-5176677-0 The Ministers' fellowship breakfast went from 8 to 10am this morning and was very good with a leading Campina Grande pastor visiting us. Ever since then I have been working hectically in the office, catching up on all sorts of matters including Uruguay Leia mais...]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:40:11 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-19_23_59_26-5176677-0 Marian Rashleigh left Brazil about 2am this morning and must be back in sunny Southampton by now. Her visit to the work of EAB was most worthwhile, helpful and encouraging. Liz and I drove back to Patos this morning and got home, via Green Pastures, Leia mais...]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:59:26 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-18_20_59_11-5176677-0 We are now in Natal from where Marian`s flight back to the UK leaves in a few hours time. We left Barra de Cunhaú where we were at about 3pm. This morning we visited a Prawn/Shrimp farm and a great beach. It has been a wonderful break.

Leia mais...]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:59:11 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-17_19_54_31-5176677-0 We`ve had a fantastic day at a nature reserve at Pipa, not far from Natal, which belongs to an English friend called David Hassett. It is the most outstanding place of its kind I have ever visited. Fantastic scences of the Pipa beach from the cliffs Leia mais...]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:54:31 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-16_22_39_33-5176677-0 Marian, Liz and myself had lunch in Campina Grande (Chinese) after having visited Marian`s brother`s sponsored EAB Action Child. Very sad to see the lad`s mother less half a leg which was amputated in May after a hit and run driver ran over her. Despite Leia mais...]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:39:33 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-16_08_57_48-5176677-0 Our 40th wedding anniversary thanksgiving service went off very well last night in the Patos Church. PTL!  The church was packed to capacity Leia mais...]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:57:48 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-15_13_37_13-5176677-0

This was how Leia mais...]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:37:13 -0200 http://medcraft.blog.uol.com.br/arch2009-11-15_2009-11-21.html#2009_11-15_13_28_27-5176677-0

Here's a 40th wedding anniversary celebration meal photo taken by Philip last night. Sacha is in the right corner.