Peter and Josi’s Newsletter - May 2022
Dears Friends,
Greetings from Iparana, Brazil!
It was last February we sent our last Newsletter and thank you to all of you who respond in some way whether through prayers, encouragement or gifts.
This public Newsletter doesnt cover everything, For those who wish to recieve the PDF version of our News/Prayerletter with all the news to pray for- please ask I can then send to your email.
We are glad many enjoy watching our videos. We will try to do more and improve our ability to make them! Our latest is here at the LINK
Escola Cristã Água Viva
Last week the school celebrated Mothers Day With a Coffee Morning for mothers and our pupils got to prepare and make souvenir gifts for their Mum’s for the Coffee Morning…..All went well…but it did pour with rain which was challenging. But the mothers were very happy nevertheless. Please see our video news to see more!
For Pascoa/Easter the children enjoyed making projects and had a special celebration too - the theme for this year - “JESUS ROSE AGAIN!”
Please pray as we seek to educate children with Biblical principles and values. Sadly, some parents, even ones who attend church don't seem to see the value! They prefer to take their children out of our school and place them in the broken public school system and all that goes with it… you may ask why? Because they are offered a free computer tablet and a food parcel if they enrol their child in the local public school!.
This is the battle that's being waged for the hearts and minds of children today. If anyone wants to know the value of a child - just need to take a look at the amount of finance and resources the powers of darkness are currently throwing at this generation of children today. Then examine the Church budgets in relation to reaching this generation.
Art Classes
Art Workshops continue, and it's for all ages!.
Pascoa/Easter weekend at YWAM Praia. One of the activities - Prophetic art workshop, teaching about the tree of life, about
Jesus, about the fruit of the Holy Spirit and about Easter. And in March, Crianças do Rei Project, painting the Pearl of Great Price.
The Divided City
Recently I was able to digitally restore another old picture. This one is not so well known, but was designed by William C.Miles, who also designed the Gospel Compass and the Up and Down Lines..The Divided City, not much is known or how the picture came about. But it is definitely a picture to study the Bible with. The city depicted isn't named but with a river running through it could easily apply to London but a spiritual version. What is is noticeable the difference between the two sides of the river with many city scenes in the picture, reflecting life, both good or bad, with warnings to avoid the bad streets and roads and encouragement to follow the narrow path called "Pilgrims Walk" to get to Pilgrim's Walk one has to leave the bad side and its activities to cross bridges to go in the right direction. Once on the other side, a traveller will encounter various streets and roads with Christian activities/meanings, also warnings. It is to be noted and significant - There is only one entrance into "Pilgrim's Walk" and a narrow gate. Two destinies Heaven or Hell await all who travel through life in the Divided City, which path will we take?. In the Victorian era. it would definitely appeal to many Christians living in London. But indeed it could be applied to any major city too. I made a Video to go with the picture - a city tour which shows in more detail about the picture. Can you guess which famous movie the introduction music is from?
Pictures/Videos for Bible teaching and Sunday School
I have a series of videos available both in English and Portuguese.which can be seen at the video links.
Prayer and Thanks!
Praise the Lord for a New Washing machine!. We tried struggling without one for some years…But now we are getting somewhat older, this will be a welcome relief! . Thank You to those whose donation made this possible.
Praise the Lord for two new members of staff who have joined us at Jocum Praia. And will be helping us.
Praise the Lord, we have got over some viruses, a flu type cold.
Prayer for the school and project, the need for safety and maintenance etc. To realistically keep pace with maintenance etc, we need to raise sufficient finance to cover costs. 10,000 UK pounds would go a long way to resolve much of it. Running a school is not for the faint of heart! Please pray.
The challenges we have with basic things like ventilator fans, chairs reflect that we have many priority areas we have to deal with. But if we have faith in God we shall have assurance that He knows about all this, and we can trust Him to provide at the proper time.
Please pray for the Bible Museum and for partners. If anyone has suggestions or thoughts please contact us.
Please continue to pray for more volunteer staff and for evangelism. And Praise the Lord for answered prayers!
Please pray for a new laptop which will be used for graphics and video editing - R$7,000 - about a thousand UK pounds.
Please pray for a return visit to the UK, hopefully we can stay longer next time. Dorothy enjoyed it very much and we feel it particularly important for her when we visited in 2018/19. We don't want to leave it another 11 years to pass by! We know it's a challenge to raise the finance...but ask for prayer and trust in the Lord to make a way.
God bless you all and thank you for all your support and prayers
With our love - Peter, Josi and Dorothy
Giving through Stewardship
For those who kindly wish to support us in missions with YWAM Brazil. We are registered with give net - Stewardship Services in the UK. Monthly and one-off donations can be easily processed with Debit and Credit cards - please visit the link below to see our giving page. Give net has made some recent updates which should make this easier - for those who wish to remain anonymous, give net makes this provision. For people outside the UK who wish to give - the payment process allows International donors to opt out of UK Gift Aid system. Stewardship Services are a Christian organisation serving charities and missionaries from the UK. For those who wish to pay through STEWARDSHIP We have an account at https://www.give.net/20089559 Before confirming any gift on give.net you will be asked whether you wish to remain anonymous. If you choose this option your personal details will be will not be made known. If you have any questions please ask for details Donations may also be sent via Western Union which we are able to receive here.
Peter and Josi Millward, Rua Pintor J. Figueiredo No. 805. Praia Iparana. Caucaia, Ceara. CEP. 61.627-250. Brazil. https://www.facebook.com/escolacristaaguaviva *Email: jocumpraia@gmail.com *Please note the email address is the current one I use