Living Stones Mussurepe

Living Stones' second program! Eight more to go in Nine years for our 10 in 10 years goal!

Cajueiro Claro is in the middle of nowhere, off the main road 4 kilometers. Go off the main road a little further down and head the other direction, and after about 6 kilometers, you will get to Mussurepe. Some factories located there, as well as sugarcane fields and harvesting. The workers built their homes and worked hard for a meager living in the wilds of Northeast Brazil.

Ten years ago the factory shut down, leaving most everyone jobless and a long walk from anywhere. You can imagine the resulting poverty. One lady, we call her vovo Bel (grandma Bel), had a farm in Mussurepe, and saw the great need. She would open her home once a year for a Christmas party, where she passed out food baskets and toys to the families. She began to pray for more ways to help those around her: she met Pastor Flavio.

Last Christmas, Flavio helped vovo Bel with the program, and then began to dream with her of opening a Living Stones on her property in Mussurepe. February 2^nd we began. Until there is someone to head up the Living Stones Mussurepe, it will function two times a week: Monday mornings and Thursday afternoons. Each time there is singing, devotions, and a weekly character quality, and then dividing up between inside and outside activities.

After about an hour and a half, lunch is served (much of the food being home grown on the farm)and then the children line up to take a container of soup and bread home to their families.

The soup and bread are donated from a restaurant and a bakery in Carpina, and vovo Bel is helping with most of the rest of the cost. One girl said, “The soup is so delicious! We mixed it in with the food we had and made it last all week!” In the future, Pastor Flavio hopes to teach the children to garden and grow their own food in this beautiful back country. What an amazing opportunity God has given us!