Archive for October, 2008

Prayer letters

October 29, 2008

Some recent prayer letters from SAMS mission partners: the Barrets in the UK the Jordans in Spain James Palmer in Chile Mission Uruguay prayer letter.

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Tim Curtis writes on Makxawáya church

October 29, 2008

The people in Makxawáya church put the section of roof blown off back on, in August, just a day or two after I went in with David Orrit and Rev Peter Hunter. They have done a very temporary sort of repair, with bits of sky visible from the inside of the church, and some of the wall [...]

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Prayer line

October 28, 2008

SAMS GB Prayer line for this week: … starts as a Praise Line. Thank you, first of all, for praying at the end of September for the visit of Murray & Penny Metcalfe and family to Buenos Aires. Their trip from Asunción in search of British documentation for their adopted Paraguayan children was successful, with [...]

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News from Claire Holmes

October 24, 2008

Claire has sent her latest Prayer news from Concepcion.

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Paraguay Prayer calendar

October 22, 2008

The November Prayer calendar from Paraguay has just been released.

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Prayerline

October 22, 2008

Latest prayerline from SAMS GB Praise God for rain at last in the Paraguayan Chaco! This includes the area of El Estribo where the third year students from FEISA Teacher Training College are going tomorrow and Wednesday as part of their teaching practice commitments. They will give the 9 schools some resources they have made, [...]

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Boystown Orphanage

October 22, 2008

HOW BOYSTOWN HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND THE POLITCAL CORRECTNESS PREVALENT TODAY. Fifty years ago Boys Town was founded by the Revd. K. Riebs, at that time Chaplain to the English congregation at Christ Church, with the objective of rescuing abandoned boys from the streets of Rio de Janeiro and giving [...]

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Prayer letters

October 22, 2008

The latest prayer letters from SAMS Mission Partners: The Rowes in Spain. Esperanza Foster home in Asuncion. The Marcés in Lima Peru. The Metcalfes in Asuncion Paraguay. The Meldrums in Olinda, Brazil. Andy Roberts in Olinda, Brazil.

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SAMS Prayerline

October 14, 2008

The latest SAMS GB prayer line: It’s been a shock to hear that Walter Barrientos, pastor of the new Anglican church in Tarija, Bolivia, is suffering from cancer of the larynx. Please uphold Walter, Sandra and their three young children as he has just started six months’ chemotherapy. Tarija is the church featured in the [...]

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Megan Johnston’s blog

October 11, 2008

Megan Johnston has started a blog on her experience with the Red Box project in Argentina! Here is a snipit. Well I returned safe and sound after a 6 day conference to Misa Rumi on the Argentine/Bolivian Boarder. It was quite an experience to be honest! During the main conferences I taught 54 children in [...]

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