Women's Tea blesses Living Stone's Mothers

This June we have been blessed with two short term mission trip groups. The first one provided Vacation Bible School for Living Stones, and the second group had women's teas for the mothers. It was a wonderful time, and over 130 women were blessed from Carpina, Tracunaem, Acacias/Friends church, Lagoa De Itaenga, Mussurepe, Guadalajara, Paudalho, and Cajueiro Claro.

Lagoa De Itaenga

Mussurepe

Guadalajara

Paudalho

Cajueiro Claro

The Kombi Has Arrived

We are so excited to announce that Living Stones now has a Kombi! We were able to purchase a 2010 Kombi for around $15,000USD, and use the rest of the donations from Trek for Transportation towards registration and fixing up costs. Pastor Flavio and all of the workers let tears of joy fall to see this miracle come to pass.

We haven't told the children about it yet--they have been praying for two years, and ask about it regularly. Video coming soon. 

http://rachelsnewday.blogspot.com.br/2013/06/kombi-long-version.html for more information and pictures.

Successful Trek for Transportation!

We have raised $17,500 from last and this year's Trek for Transportation!

A big thank you to everyone who made this possible!

Steve Turner (Happy Birthday!) is coming to Brazil this week and says we can start Kombi shopping. A new/almost new Kombi is closer to $20-25,000, so any last minute gifts would be wonderful.

Pastor Flavio sends his thanks as well:  "I would like to thank all my fellow Americans who were involved in this race, the missionary Rachel for stealing my dream and told the men and women of God (laughing) by supporting the world Renewal, Pastor Gary Pastor Tele, Steven and everyone who prayed all that participated all who prayed, all were important. This achievement is all. I promise to take good care of the blessing that God gave us through every one of our dear brothers. thank you, thank you so much."

Shout out to our top runners in the 4k race!

Word of Life 2013

Word of Life invited Living Stones (and Athletes in Action and Massa Humana) to bring around 200 children to a day camp: transportation, food, and activities provided. Even though it rained all day, everyone had a wonderful time. 14 children from Cajueiro Claro, 22 from Mussurepe, 32 from the trash dump, and many, many from Guadalajara and Carpina.
It was the first activity we have ever been able to do with the children from the trash dump, and truly something they will never forget:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UoXYxhV3Lw if the above link doesn't work)

Terrific Tees

Our Trek for Transportation is coming up in less than a month! Please come support us--your donation will be doubled this year with our anonymous matching donation, and we now have these Trek Tees:

The proceeds from the shirt go to Living Stones as well. You can order it online and pick it up the day of the Trek to save on shipping: http://ministrymedia.bigcartel.com/product/living-stones-brazil
Join us June 8th, at 10am at Southeastway park! All the information you need is at www.wribrazil.com/trek, or you can call 317-784-1535. If you can't make it, please donate to someone who can!

Trek for Transportation 2013

We are excited to announce the 4k run/walk Trek for Transportation 2013!

On June 8th, at Southeastway park in Indiana, churches and individuals will be coming together at 10:00am to raise money to buy a vehicle for Living Stones in Northeast Brazil.

An anonymous donor has volunteered to match dollar for dollar (up to $7,000) for this event! Please come and participate, or give to someone who is. More information and registration forms are at www.wribrazil.com/trek

Blog Changes

To keep up with how Living Stones is growing, we have (and are) working on making the blog as clear as possible. Under the header there are four tabs:

• "Children" has the stories and videos of individual children in the Living Stones program
• "Programs" has the links to go to the individual Living Stones programs--they each have their own blog as they are all completely different and connected to their unique church program.
• "Donate" has links to donate to specific areas of Living stones
• "Connect" has links to further information about the program

Every month I send out an e-newsletter, and you can sign up for that under "Subscribe to our mailing list" located on the side. If you would like a copy of the newsletter in publisher, to print and give out, just e-mail amobrasil99@hotmail.com

We are also working to provide more videos, for our tech-love audience. Please feel free to re-post these and share them. All of the videos are on youtube under Rachel Winzeler or World Renewal Brazil.

Thank you for partnering with us!