This year Living Stones has gone through many changes. In January the program was put on hold at Paudalho, due to construction and changes. The new Living Stones curriculum needed to be tested and translated into Portuguese, because some ideas just didn’t work in another country and culture.
While putting together this ministry website, updating, and organizing our missions statement, objectives, and general information (www.wribrazil.com/livingstones.html), Rachel was able to begin talking with other churches interested in beginning a Living Stones program, and putting all the information into Portuguese.
A second Living Stones project began last year in Cajueiro Claro. It is a small community of 1000 people, about two miles off the main road, in the middle of nowhere. Rachel began walking there with Flavio (the church planter/pastor/Living Stones worker) a couple times a week, and soon found these children holding a special place in her heart. The rural needs are different and sometimes complex, but it has been a rewarding time in Cajueiro Claro (even with the frogs, bats, lizards, scorpions, and snails that are weekly cleaned out of the classrooms).
Living Stones Paudalho is hoping to reopen in August, but in the meantime, the workers have been able to keep in contact with the kids through home visitation and special activities, like our Easter program. These past months have been a big transition for Rachel, as she has gone from assisting/observing to teaching/running the character and Bible program for Living Stones (in Portuguese).
Rachel will be returning to the United States because her tourist visa has expired. She has been accepted into the post-grad program at FALUB, a university in Brazil, to study educational psychology, and hopes to return with a student visa in August. Please keep her trip in your prayers, as she spends time with family, speaking and sharing about Living Stones, and a unique teaching opportunity in Hong Kong for the month of July.
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