Some pictures from Jeremy's trip to Brazil in Jan / Feb 2011 . . .
Before and after the time spent in the Amazon region, Jeremy was able to spend some time with our host family from last year in Lagoa Santa.
After a few days in Lagoa Santa (where we spent the majority of our trip last time) Jeremy and his team traveled to Boa Vista, Roraima where they met the missionaries they would be working with at MEVA (Evangelical Mission in the Amazon).
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| Apartments at MEVA |
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| Marcello , missionary to the Wai Wai Indians |
On the way to visit the Wai Wai Indians, where they spent about five days . . .
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| Andre, missionary to the Wai Wai Indians, Jeremy, and Pastor Fernando |
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| The Team and Andre |
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“The singleness of the missionaries purpose stands out in this story: to present Jesus Christ. They did not endeavor to impose the trappings of a Western culture on Indians whose forest and river, whose manner of dress, served their temporal needs well. Rather, they planted, watered, nurtured the Gospel seed. Changes came, but they sprang from within, where Christ now dwells.”
Christ’s Witch-Doctor by Homer Dowdy
The book, Christ's Witch-Doctor, tells the amazing story of how the Wai Wai tribe came to know Christ. The Wai Wai people Jeremy met radiated the light of Jesus!
"The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those lilving in the land of the shadow of death a great light has dawned." Matthew 4:16
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| Church service with the Wai Wai people. |
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| Piranha, a very common meal. |
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| Jeremy and team member Greg with their gifts from the Wai Wai. |
The Yanomami
The next part of the trip was spent visiting two different Yanomami tribes . . .
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| The team and missionaries working with the Yanomami people. |
The Wai Wai have begun to share the gospel with other tribes. This is a drawing that one of the Wai Wai Indians made to share with the Yanomami people.
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| Yanomami school |
My Prayer
Give me your eyes that I may have sight, so in my eyes they will see light.
I only want your vision, to tell of your love and make that my mission.
Take my sight and make it yours,
so your blessings and grace cannot be ignored
so your blessings and grace cannot be ignored
Give me your hands to carry your light, the hands which hold me with such might.
Give me your hands that lift me up, the hands that bless and fill my cup.
The hands for my sake the nails were driven,
the hands that give life, for you have risen.
Give me your feet so I may take, the word of you to all who wait.
Give me your feet so I may race, to tell others of your mighty grace.
Give me your feet those nails were in,
to remind me you died for my sin.
Give me your heart and fill my soul,
fill me with grace and love and make me whole.
Give me your heart to hold forever, for your loving kindness will always endeavor.
The heart I broke because of my sin, the heart that holds and forever keeps me in.
So give me your whole body and make me new,
Because dear Jesus, it's all about you.
by - A sinner saved by grace
