Greetings brothers. May the grace and the peace of our Lord be with us always for all eternity.

I’m glad to send a new report about the work here in Fortaleza city in Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ.

During this month I was preaching and teaching at Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ on Fridays and Sundays. More brethren are excited in learning more about the sound doctrine. Why? Because in the state of Ceará, almost every congregation focus more on ethics and morality and not much about theological topics.

I could give you a picture of that. If you ask someone from any congregation, something like; “Brother, do you think catholic people are our brothers and sisters in Christ?” Most of them probably will answer you saying yes.

In my experience, I discovered something kind of interesting. Studying the Bible is kind of a bifurcation. It begins like one road, but then, you come across the bifurcation. On one side, you’re going to use the Bible to learn a good and approved behaviour before God. On the other side, you will learn about theological things, something more theoretical than empirical. Both of them compounds “the sound doctrine”.

The problem is, many congregations focus more on teaching and learning about morality like, maybe 95 percent and only 5 percent on theological studies. That is a problem because, someday and somehow one congregation could become a denomination. I think we must focus on both sides of the sound doctrine and that is my work here. I am trying to solve it, or better saying, God is fixing that through me. To God be the glory!

Other news to share with you is both me and my Patrícia were invited to be in two weddings.

The first one occurs here in Fortaleza, both Elis and Ananias are our brothers in Christ and members of Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ. We went there as guests.

The second one occurs in Itarema. This one went a little different.

The bride and groom, I mean, Josiane and Raul asked me to go to Itarema to assist their wedding to estate some beautiful words blessing their marriage and make a praying in front of everyone.

That seems to be a good news! Right? Well, it depends.

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Both of them were baptized years ago. However, they stopped meeting in the worship services from a long time.

Other issue is they were fornicating and drinking alcoholic drinks in public places. For those things I told them that I can’t go to Itarema and estate beautiful words and to make a praying because that would be hypocritical before God. Doing that I would just give the devil an opportunity to murmur against the Church. So we decided not go. I talked with Raul, I explained him and he said he understood and he would do the same thing in my position.

On top of that, We were visiting some brothers, I keep teaching our brothers of discipleship and now, we have three other brothers in the group from other congregations. Gabriel from Centro Church of Christ and Breno and Cláudia from Maracanaú Church of Christ.

Other stuff to share is our brother Ananias asked me to teach him hermeneutic and homiletic, the art of preaching. I accepted to help him in this matter.

I keep writing devotional thoughts and posting them on Facebook and WhatsApp every single day (except on Sundays) and I keep teaching some brothers from the state of Piauí and from Itarema city.

In this month our sisters had a women meeting in the last Saturday and we as a congregation had a lunchtime in the last Sunday after our worship services.

We thank you for your spiritual and financial support. Please, keep us in yours prayers.

If you need any more info, please feel free to get in touch with me. God bless you!

Greetings brothers. May the grace and the peace of our Lord be with us always for all eternity.

I’m glad to send a new report about the work here in Fortaleza city in Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ.

In this month I was invited to preach in José Walter Church of Christ, it is other congregation in Fortaleza city. The topic was about the parable of the good Samaritan.

I was also preparing our brother Darlan from Itarema to exhort the Lord’s supper, it was his first time. He was nervous. I helped him leading him on what to say and how to say it. As you know, there are brothers there, but he looked for me to get ready for that service.

I keep teaching some newborns in the faith, they are Priscila, Nilda, Raissa, Júnior and Beatriz. I am teaching about the kingdom, answering questions like; what’s the kingdom like? Who’s the owner? Did the kingdom already come or not? Before that, we have been studying about the meaning of the Church. Please, keep praying for them.

I keep teaching our congregation in Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ on Fridays and Sundays. We keep studying about the baptism; its meaning, purpose, and how was changing along the ages in the denomination world. Thanks God it’s being successful.

I keep teaching some brothers from the state of Piauí and Ryan from Itarema.

I keep writing devotional thoughts and posting them on Facebook and WhatsApp every single day (except on Sundays).

I was preaching and exhorting on our worship services.

We received some visits in our house from members of the Church, we had a blast with them and we used our time to cheer them up.

We have also been invited to explore other city called Pecém by our brothers Rogério and his wife Sandra along with their son Thiago to explore the dunes. We have a good time.

We have been visiting some brothers and we hung out with Júnior and Beatriz to have a sincere fellowship.

Some brothers from Maracanaú city heard about my lessons and they are interested to study the Bible with me. I talked to them and I’m just waiting for them to choose the day and the schedule. Other brother from downtown Church of Christ wants to learn the Bible with me.

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On top of that, We had approved our first semester in college. We are very glad and we believe that knowledge we are getting will be quite useful in the kingdom.

We ask you brothers to keep praying for our work here and for the souls. We thank you for your spiritual and financial support. To God be the glory.

Greetings brothers. May the grace and the peace of our Lord be with us always for all eternity.

Glad to send a new report about the work here in Fortaleza city in the Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ.

In this month, we began our Sunday Bible Study. A little while ago I suggested to have that ministry and our brothers agreed with that, so I started teaching since the first Sunday of October before our Sunday Worship Service. For the time being I am in charge of this task all alone. In the moment, our topic is about “Baptism”. Because some of our members (or rather, visitors) were baptized in a denominational church. I’ve heard churches of Christ in the state of Ceará have a problem with lack of knowledge, and I totally agree because of my experience in Itarema city. On top of that, our brethren our quite happy for our Bible classes, they only needed someone to prepare them.

I keep teaching Ryan from Itarema, and I keep teaching our brothers and sisters from the state of Piauí, in the Luís Correia city.

There’s a new converted in Luís Correia called Cleiton. He comes from a pentecostal church. Our brothers from that city asked me to help him to guide him with the correct interpretation of the Bible, because he has many questions and they feel like they aren’t prepared to answer all of those questions. I accepted and thanks God, he’s growing up in this matter. He speaks well, so I think he has a great potential to some day be a preacher.

During this month it was our turn to clean the church building. There’s a calender for cleaning, every weekend a couple clean the building. This month it was our turn.

We had a youth meeting and the topic was: “You are important for God”.

Me and Patrícia had the opportunity to meet a couple from Jehovah’s Witnesses. They came to our house and we studied the Bible. I suggested them to immediately approach topics like the divine nature of Jesus, about his eternity, about the Holy Spirit, about the name of God and about the Bible translation. You could imagine how was their reaction!

In the last minute I asked one of them: “What would you do if you someday discover that Jehovah’s Witnesses’ teachings are false and your church is a false church? Would you leave it? And one of them answered: “No”.

As you can see, there are people with blinded eyes. Even if they understood the truth, they prefer to follow an institute and not our God.

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In this month women went to zoo with their children to have a nice day with them. They also had a Lady Bible Study and the men, we had a meeting to discuss some things about the church.

I got some contacts to teach the Gospel, I gave them my phone number if they are interested to study the Bible and I’m waiting for. Please, pray for them to have a heart touched by God.

I started teaching Júnior and Beatriz giving them some lessons about discipleship. We have been talking about the Church, and now I am teaching them about the Kingdom.

Other sisters got in touch with me asking me to give them the same lessons that I’m sharing with Júnior and Beatriz, so they are being taught by me as well.

As usual, I keep teaching our congregation on Fridays. Last Friday we had two visitors, please pray for them.

We also had other visitors on last Sunday, please pray for them.

I keep writing devotional thoughts and posting them on Facebook and WhatsApp (except on Sundays).

During this time me and my wife visited some brothers to have a devotional time and also to help some of them with emotional issues.

On top of that, I keep taking part in exhorting in sermons, Lord’s supper and in the offering time.

As a routine, I keep studying to give my very best.

Me and my wife are very grateful for your support brothers. Please, keep us in your prayers.

Glad to sending you a new report about my work here and to tell you all the wonders God made here, dear brethren.

Back in the very beginning of September we had a three-days youth retreat made up of almost all of the youth from every congregation of Fortaleza city. The main topic was about New Identity. In this event, I was invited to teach and exhort some brothers and sister talking about how we must deal in this sinful world. On top of that I also was helping in games and things in regard to the retreat.

We had a worship service on Sunday with the youth and I preached in the Lord’s supper. A few days after the retreat, we had a meeting with all of the brothers and sisters who took part in the event to talk about what was good, bad or in what we could improve. I was invited to give some words to encourage our brethren.

Some days later, our congregation had a garage sale. Me and some brethren were selling old clothes to collect some money to invest to supply our congregation’s needs.

Another thing, we had a Saturday meeting with our own youth group to watch a movie known as Narnia, afterwards, we had a devotional time using some passages from the movie and comparing some similarities with the Bible.

In this month, we had a three-days course about eldership in the congregation of Centro (downtown), from our brother Ricardo Sobral. He’s one of the preachers of the Bible School in Recife (EBNESR seminary). I was there to learn more about it and the information was very useful. At that Sunday, we had a family worship service in Centro, this means, all of the congregations from Fortaleza city were worshiping in the same place. I think, there were around 400 brethren.

We also had a men meeting and a women meeting to discuss our next steps.

As usual, I was teaching some brothers from Itarema city and some brothers from the state of Piauí on Google meet or video callings.

On top of that, I taught a group of brothers and sisters from different places around Brazil on Zoom. My topic was about Church, the pillar and foundation of truth according to the Old and New Testament.

I also was writing and posting a devotional day on Facebook and WhatsApp groups every single day, except on Sundays. Speaking of which, I created a page for Church of Christ Conjunto Esperança on Facebook to share photos, news, devotionals, etc.

We have two new brothers! They are Beatriz and Júnior, Nowadays they are dating. She is 20 and he is 24. I showed them the Gospel and taught them our great responsibility as Christians. From now on, I will be in charge of them.

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I am going to start to teach them the most important things that every Christians must know about the sound doctrine per week.

On top of that, you must know there are a few problems at Church of Christ Centro and there is a huge bunch of youth without much knowledge about the sound doctrine. So then, a few of them asked me to teach them. Of course, my answer was yes!

I still preach the gospel to Osório, please pray for him.

In other moments we were visiting some brothers to encourage and give them some comfort with the Bible.

I was preaching and teaching in Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ weekly on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

As a routine, I keep studying to give my very best.

Me and my wife are very grateful for your support brothers. Please, keep us in your prayers.

Greetings to all of you my dear brethren and may the grace, the mercy and the peace of our Lord be with us always. I am pretty grateful to God for everything He’s doing in us and through us. I’m sure, serving God it is a great honor for real.

In the very beginning of July I was visiting our brothers and several families in the last days in Itarema city, to wish them a farewell and giving them words of encouragement. We also kept preaching in the worship services and visiting Maria’s family to teach them the holy gospel. I talked with our brother Wandberg to take care of them from now on.

We finally moved to Fortaleza city and we are already installed in our new home. Thanks God the moving was quick and safe.

The first days in Fortaleza I was getting around the city to be more familiarized, especially driving in my motorbike, because there’s a big difference between Itarema and Fortaleza. Thanks God I am getting accustomed, it’s not a big deal.

Me and Patrícia are welcomed from our brothers from Conjunto Esperança, and by the way, this month flew by!

In the past few weeks we’ve been visiting our brothers from Conjunto Esperança and with some of them we’ve been talking about many projects we intend to do, we’ll keep discussing and of course, I’ll let you know.

I proposed in my heart to write and post on Facebook and WhatsApp every single day (except on Sundays) a devotional, a scriptural thought to teach and encourage people. I already began doing it. I don’t know there but here, somehow it helps a lot our brothers. On top of that, I intend to make a Facebook account for Conjunto Esperança Church of Christ. There I will share the day’s devotional as I am doing it nowadays in my own account.

I had the idea to make theological or Bible studies videos on YouTube in Portuguese. I shared my thoughts about it with our brothers and they totally agree. Actually, they are more than happy for that. So God willing I’ll make it come true. I just need some time to learn more about how to edit videos and little by little I will buy some equipment for that purpose.

Our brothers from Conjunto Esperança discussed between them and they decided to choose me as the one to be in charge of our Bible studies on Fridays. So from that day on I am teaching our brothers on Fridays in the church building.

Me and my wife were also helping our youthful group, especially on Saturdays teaching and make some games. Beyond that, we had man and women meetings.

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on. On Sundays I was serving in the worship services preaching, exhorting, and go

Other good news it has to do with our brothers from Piauí state. On behalf of them, our brother Samuel got in touch with me to ask me if I could teach them some Bible classes on video callings. I accepted doing it once a week on Tuesdays evening. We already began and the topic is about: “Our mission as Christians”.

In addition to that, I keep teaching Darlan and Ryan from Itarema on video callings.

As a usual, I keep preparing myself learning deep and profound the Holy Scripture and reading a tons of books. O great preacher needs to act and react as Jesus, pray as Jesus and we need to have a gigantic library to know as much as Jesus as possible.

By the way, me and my wife decided to enrolled in College with the purpose to be more useful. As you know, I studied in “Bear Valley”, to begin as a theologian, so I decided to study “philosophy” and my wife agrees with that. Using rightly this skill, it could come in handy in the church.

My wife is HR, and now she’s going to study “accounting”.

As a hobby I keep my Italian language studies.

I have more news to share with you brothers, however I ponder it would be better to share it later. Thanks God everything is working out.

Once again, me and my wife thank you for the prayers and for the support we are receiving to serve God in His kingdom and helping our brothers. Please keep praying for this mission.