Saturday, March 15, 2014

“God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.” Hudson Taylor

For today's blog, I would like to share the vision and heart of the family I am working with - a vision and heart God has given me as well.

We are now, as a church, desiring to move out of our rental place and buy our own place.  We have located a great piece of property in a great location. 

If you would like to see what it looks like, take a look at these two pictures on google:  (Be sure and click on the arrows so you can see the panoramic view.  We are so excited about the park and soccer field that are in front of the property.)



We love that it is a corner lot, close to our current location.  The park and soccer field could be used by the church.  We are already considering using it for a world Cup outreach to children this June. 

We have tried to calculate roughly what our total costs would be which include the price of the land and building a basic building to move into for our meetings.

The land is:  roughly $85,000 (450 square meters which is, I think, almost 4900 square feet)

We are figuring roughly on the cost of a building:  $11,000

So, we are looking at a total cost of:  $96,000

We have raised so far:  $36,000 (funds from you , our supporters) and over $5,000 from our own church here. 

So God has provided  $41,000 total money raised for this project. 

We have the option of borrowing $55,000 from our mission, which our church is planning on doing, 

We would ask you to pray that God would grant us wisdom and, if this is God´s place for Redemption Baptist, that He would grant the funds needed

I read recently  that,  for an omnipotent God there is no level of difficulty.  Everything is equally easy for our powerful God.  But I also just read of the praying of the disciples in Acts and how God worked powerfully through those prayers, which is why we ask for your prayers.  We thank you for your prayers, because we KNOW that the evidences of God´s work here in people´s lives are directly related to your faithful praying. 

In Christ's Love,
James, Christen, Daniel, Hannah, and Jeremiah
http://www.taylors4brazil.blogspot.com/

Note from me: =) 
P.S. Please keep the adolescent class that I am helping out with on Wednesday nights in your prayer as well! Thankful for the big group we have been having - Julia, Vitória, Duda, Kamile, Hannah, Larissa, Rafael, Ricardo, Henrique, Daniel, Gabriel, and Guilherme. Many are unsaved and come from broken families. 


Also praising the Lord for allowing me to find a plane ticket in my price range to fly back to the States for a three and a half week visit - May 17th through June 10th. 

Remaining Confident in Christ
Rachel Taylor

Isaiah 25: 1 "O Lord, thou art God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth." 

Please feel free to leave me a note! Feel free to leave any prayer requests you may have that I could be praying for as well. =)