Quick message from the "dark side of the moon"

Right now, Ali and I feel a little like the astronaut rounding the moon who loses all contact with home base till emerging on the other side. The internet provider of our city is not doing much providing right now, so we have been unable to post blogs or even send e-mails. I am sitting in a LAN house in Votaporanga now. I can´t post pics from here, but at least we can let you know that we are still alive!




Christmas and New Years were wonderful. On New Years Eve Ali, Phyllis and Antenor took part in a 15k rase in Sao Paulo called the Sao Silvestre that had more than 20,000 runners. (I sat out as I am trying to recoup a bum knee) We then spent the New Years with Aunts, Uncles and cousins who live in Sao Paulo, and on the 1st of the year traveled to Votaporanga where we have spent the last days with more family on a small farm that is home to one of our uncles here. It has been a good opportunity to do some planing and scheduleing of ministries for the coming year.


On Sunday we will be attending a Missionary conference in the south where we will meet other workers from cities throughout Brazil. It will be a good time to build our network and learn from the experience of others. After this confrence comes the first of two camps that Ali and I are directing. The theme of this camp will be, "He would love me." Classes will be taught by various people whose lives have parraleled the lives of individuals who Christ met and interacted with. These will include Peter (who turned his back on Christ and then came back to Him), the Pharisies (whose religious pride did nothing for their relationship with Christ), the woman who descretely touched Jesus's cloak as He passed and received healing (who while being too ashamed to seek out Christ publicly, was saught out by Him), and the children (who Jesus welcomed to come to Him in their inocence and used as an example to His adult followers).



Thank you for your prayers for our work, and please keep this upcoming camp, AMO, in your prayers. Pray that both the counselors (who will be teaching the classes) and the campers will be prepared, used, and changed by the Lord through this effort. And while your at it, pray for our internet connection too!



Thanks for reading, and Happy New Years!

-the Kaisers