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Inter, campeão do Mundo

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Inter have just won the Fifa Cup World Chapionships. For those of you who dont follow the football(I was never much of a football person, but living the Football country of the world, I dont have much choice...as you will see) Inter is a Brazilian Team - from Porto Alegre, the capital city of the state I live in - Rio Grande do Sul. The celebrations are CRAZY and since we live in the center of town we are surrounded by it. This video was taken from the window of Junior's room...and the noise is still continuing as I type. The fireworks sound like gun-fire shots. You would think we would be celebrating too..a Brazilian team has won the world championships...however we (Junior and I as the supporting and loyal girlfiriend) support Inter's rivals - Grêmio so for us, it is not a happy day...well actually I don't really care...I just want the flippin noise to stop!!! I've never seen anything like this before...only on T.V. and now i am living in the middle of it! My life is just one insane adventure! woohoo!

For those who are interested

The School of Missons in Sapiranga, Brazil has been cancelled for 2007.

Junior and I are focussing all our time and energy solely on each other...uh... no...I mean on the Leaders School and History Makers School that are both happening in January.

(check out this cool flyer we designed for it...)

As we accept people onto the school, I place their picutres on a piece of paper that says their name and their age and where they are from...yes, I feel just like Sarah Dalley in those moments...although the Spectacular Miss Sarah D. makes them look much more beautiful than I ever could...how does she do that ladies and gentlemen? We shall never know, it will forever be one the many mysteries of the Fantasticly, Fast and Fabulous Sarah Dalley
(Who was actually in my dream last night...and it was oh so lovely to see her there!!)

Anyway, really that was all I wanted to say...

OH! EXCEPT....
So Junior and I prayed for this lady who had cancer in her womb. We prayed for her like 2 months ago at a youth conference. Alyn had just preached on healing and asked all of the people with serious illnesses to come to the front to be prayed for by him, Junior and I (no pressure!) She came to the last conference we had (while I was in Africa) and told Junior that 2 days after we prayed for her, she went to Dr. and he checked her out and itold her she had NO CANCER ANYMORE!!! so when Jr told me, I didn't really believe that it had been US that had prayed for her and she was healed...then I rebuked myself for not believing that I could do something like that...and then God said...but Lois, that's exactly it...you didn't heal her, I did...of course you have a hard time believing it because it's not anything that you can physically do. I did it through you. GOD DID IT, I DIDNT DO IT. God is the healer...yeh, i've heard it so many times...and actually it's what gives me faith to pray - I have ALL of the faith in the world that God can heal-but now I am starting to experience it...and it REALLY is nothing to do with me. I am just the 'mouth, the hands and the feet'...he is the power

What is also cool about this story is she said to Jr, I couldn't believe that this guy with earings in his ears, long hair and his pants too low was the one that God used to heal me...! I think some religious spirits must have left her that day too!!

ok...really, that was all I wanted to say ....

Where exhaust pipes grow on trees

My first few moments in Mozambique, I thought that I was seeing some really cool street art. A sculpture made out of Exhaust Pipes...what a sweet idea! However, by the next few mmoments of my stay in Mozambique, I realised this was no masterpiece placed in the city to make it look pretty, but a source of income for the people. Everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE there are things for sale on the side of the road: car parts: wheels, rims, hub-caps, bumpers, doors...clothes: lines of pants hanging up, t-shirts, jeans, even underwear...furniture: wooden bed heads, leather sofas...food: mainly fruit and veg.

I also realised within a short time that what I would consider to be rubbish, was another man's treasure. Every few miles there would be an incredibly aweful smell and you would look out of the window and see piles and piles of rubbish by the side of the road. A lot of the wares being sold by the roadside began their second life as rubbish.

This is how people make a living. Not all people in Mozambique, but a lot of them.

I had an absolutely incredible time.
My heart was stolen by the children in the Center and outside of the Center.
God blew me away with his love.
I had an experience that is simply too deep for words. I think that there isn't a way to explain it, but I know that it will play out in my life this side of Mozambique.

It stunk, I was hot, there was sand and dirt everywhere, I slept on a nasty bed and I loved every minute of it!!!

It's good to be back in Brazil. I am dreaming and wondering where God will take me next. But for now, the time is right to be right here. I am peaceful, more than ever and I am full of love.

Here are some pictures for your eyes to enjoy:


Carmina: the one who stole my heart. She is 4 years old. She doesn't speak yet, and she can't walk yet. She had Meningitus (sp?) as a baby. She smiles all the time and her face lit up eveytime I walked into the room. She didn't need to say anything, she stole my heart with one glance of her eyes.


Rosa and Ruti. Ruti has the most personality I have ever seen in a 3 year old, and man can she dance!! this picture was completely spontaneous and one of my favourites!!


Sam at the beach. We took 25 babies and small children to the beach for the morning...it was a lot of fun!!
Oh yeh...and we went to South Africa for the day on Safari, that was cool!

Raquel and I in Portugual: the beginning of our semi-nightmare trip home...but that's another story!

I still miss you all and love you very much.

MWAH x