http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog Reaching Germanic Peoples of South Brazil Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:07:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over a week-and-a-half ago our quiet afternoon turned upside down and inside out as high winds and tornados moved through our city and county knocking down powerlines, trees, ripping roofs off houses, leveling barns and chicken houses.  This sounds like Texas! The thing that makes it all seem surreal is ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/09/25/update-disaster-relief-in-southern-brazil-among-the-hunsrik/ Rosane has been praying for her neighbor for the past 4 years to become a follower of Jesus. Recently here neighbor was diagnosed with cancer and after several rounds of treatment the doctors have said that there is nothing else that they can do for her. Following a house church ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/09/20/dreams-speak-volumes/ The devil may wear Prada, but what’s his favorite fragrance?   Recently we had an interesting and telling incident occur in one of our house churches. The family hosting the house church had relatives visiting for the weekend. The relatives joined us for church, but really did not participate much in the ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/09/05/the-devils-perfume/ The hard question, from the previous post, was this, “If God promised them the land, why did they have to fight for it?”  The part of my answer that resonated with Mr. L was this:   God has promised to meet all of my needs, not necessarily all of my wants, but ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/08/25/the-promised-land/ Imagine that you were reading the Bible for the first time. You had never heard the Bible stories as an adult, though you may have heard a few here and there as a child. That is the reality of many of the people in our house churches.   We’ve been studying through ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/08/15/promised-land/ In the US, there has been a great deal of controversy over the Ten Commandments. I remember just a few years ago seeing many yards with signs of the Ten Commandments, supporting their public display. Much of this centered around the situation of the monument of the Ten Commandments in ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/07/25/which-ten-commandments/ In Brazil, there is something about Mary, and the saints, that holds incredible sway over Catholics. I was talking with a young lady at house church last week about this very subject. We were expressing praise to the Lord that another family has realized that they can no longer follow ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/07/18/theres-something-about-mary/ Luciano and his wife Rosângela learned Hunsrik as children from their parents in the interior of Brazil's south where immigrants from all over Europe came seeking a better life. Their families have been Catholic longer than any of them can remember. With this many years of family and societal traditions ... http://onmissionwithgod.org/Blog/2008/07/11/german-team-update/