The month of June has been packed full of excitement! On June 1st Ana Maria (a Senhora with 3 grown children and a work collegue of one of our members) was baptized. After she and Matt came out of the water of our downstairs pool, she walked over to her husband and said, “Don’t you want to do it too?” He did not appear to be very open to talking to us about her decision or about studying the Bible himself but last week he participated in his first Bible study and even teared up during part of it. Please pray for this couple and their family as Matt continues to study with them.
Kathryn Player, an Auburn student staying with us during the campaign was reading the Bible in English with a 21 year old girl named Clerlhan. Kathryn brought her home for lunch after church and Mary Virginia studied about baptism with her in Portuguese to allow her to make this heart decision in her heart language. God had been preparing Clerlhan for a long time and she was more than ready to be baptized into Christ. Clerlhan cannot swim but she had no fear from all of the excitement (and it helped that Russell assured her he was also a lifeguard)! It was our first nightime baptism in the ocean near our church!
Another first this month was our first Amerian baptism. One of the Auburn students who came, Whitney Jay (from Florida), was baptized last Wednesday afternoon, June 27th. Whitney had been ready for a long time as well and believed all that she was reading with the Brazilians; so we are happy that she made the commitment in the presence of all her readers and our Brazilian youth!
