House for Victor Maxson

Victor and Bethany Maxson with
daughters Hannah, Sarah, and Rachel

We sent money to Victor to purchase this house so that he can have passive income.
It is to be managed by his home church Faith Baptist Tabernacle in Willistone FL.

Victor is now part of a church plant in Iowa.
Sending church
Faith Baptist Tabernacle 
17531 NE highway 27 Alt
Williston, FL
32696

Victor's Blog

Van for the Bevis'

The Bevis' have been in Lithuania for several years. However the Lithuanian Government issued stringent visa requirements that their family was not able to meet. Now that they are in the states they are in need of transportation. CAMP, Int'l gave them money to purchase a vehicle. Mark is now in the Dakotas with a church plant.

Sending church
Emmanuel Baptist Church
4445 Chisholm Road, Florence, Alabama
Website: www.emmanuel-florence.org/

Books for Jerry Baulding

CAMP, Int'l purchased several boxes of  books on child training and gave them to Jerry for distribution in Ireland.

Jerry is a short term missionary to Ireland and is now back in the states.

Tractor for Estancia Maranatha

Estancia Maranatha is a 295 acres Camp that was founded by Robert Doolittle in the mid 1970's.
In the late 1990's Robert handed the camp over to his son Peter.
They have camps for Teens, Adolescence, Sunday School Teachers, Young Ladies, Family, Youth, Married Ladies, and Couples.
CAMP, Int'l was made aware of their need for a new tractor so we gave them the money to buy one.

Saying goodbye

Sunday afternoon was a hard one for just about everyone! We were very busy trying to get the last bit of things packed and making sure we had finished all of our projects before we left as well as trying to spend our last moments with our dear new friends.

Here are some pictures we captured in between the tears...

Karina, Rebekah, Gilmara and Jessica

Jana, Bekah and Thahis - Thahis and her family drove over two hours to come see us before we left.



Joshua, Elijah, Rodrigo, William (back), Caleb, Josiah and Roderio

William, Thiana Esther, Diana (front) and Karina

Roderio, Rodrigo and Caleb


 Geane and Natalia & Mom and Anna
Issabelle with Anna

Trip Home

Ready to check in Lucas (the boy in the red shirt) came by bus from Pedra 90 to the airport to see us off

Going Away Party

Saturday was a day full of surprises - planned surprises!

The church folks decided to have a little going away gathering Saturday night after church.

Jana made this beautiful cake!

Here's a picture of most of the family - see if you can figure out who was missing :)

Ladies camp

Saturday Mom and 12 other Ladies from the Pedra 90 area headed out to Estancia Maranata for a day long Ladies Camp. From the report, it was a blessing to all there! Here's a few pictures from the Doolittles.

Sister Tereza dos Santos speaking to the ladies

a few of the ladies
For lunch the men made a meal and served it like a churrascaria
The Servers
Mr. Doolittle

Preaching at Peter Doolittle's church

Sunday we headed over to Peter Doolittles Church where Anthony preached Sunday morning and evening.

Anthony Preaching

Courter kids singing...
and then that afternoon we went to Estancia Maranata (the Doolittles home is on the Camp) and had lunch and went swimming!

Re-Inauguration of the Church at Cristo Rei

Saturday was the re-inauguration of Christo Rei. The church was packed with people!

The Duartes and us sang Veremos Cristo (We shall see Jesus)

Then Mr. Doolittle preached It was SO hot in the building! There were a lot of people standing outside the front door and sitting outside the side door.

Teen Camp 2008

Teen Camp 2008 - Saturday, Sunday & Monday April 18th-21st
April 18th-21st was Teen camp at Estancia Maranata. Daniel, Bekah, Aaron and I went along with the Duartes and 3 kids from church. Saturday night we came back home and had a service at sister Ilza's house, had service Sunday and then headed back to camp Sunday night.

We had a fun time there and made many memories together :)

The Camp Director - Peter Doolittle

Bekah and Gilmara having morning devotions

Cleaning for Youth Camp

Tuesday we went out to Estancia Maranata (Camp Maranatha) to help Peter Doolittle and some folks from his church clean Camp for the upcoming Youth Camp this weekend (April 18th-21st).

Dad used the tractor and cut the grass (and yes, it's even more dangerous than it looks!).

The Girls split up into two different teams - one cleaning the kitchen and preparing lunch for the crew and one cleaning all the bathrooms, dormers and other places used for the camp. Bekah and I joined the "dormer cleaners" while Esther and Mom helped in the kitchen that way Mom could be close to Anna.

Starting on a dormer...

The Boys Dorm

Scrubbin' floors brazilian style!

The boys worked on raking leaves, chopping trees down, hauling water for the cleaners and just about anything else! They were a big help!

Sunday Night Service

Singing together

Anthony preaching - Jedidiah interpreting

:: Setting Sun ::

Cuiaba, MT Brazil

Saturday service

Every Saturday night our church has services at different family's houses. The reason for not having the service in our church building was to encourage our neighbors to come to a service. Most folks around here are much more willing to visit a neighbors than go to a church building.

Our turn rolled around this last Saturday and normally afterward the host would serve some kind of snack or drink, so for the occasion we made chocolate chunk cookies. Tthe reason they aren't chocolate chip is because here you can't get chocolate chips. You get chocolate in bars and then make it into chunks... Brazilians don't have "cookies", either :).

Making the cookies

We made roughly 190+ cookies and we ate them all!

Setting the chairs up on our porch for the service (notice the new tile on the floor!) We had a very good service! We had several of our neighbors come.

(notice our "central air")

Computer for Peter Doolittle

After CAMP Int'l learned that Peter's computer crashed, we decided to get him a new one so that he can keep in contact with his supporting churches.



Peter has been in Brazil since the late 1990's and is a 2nd generation missionary.
He runs Estancia Maranatha. 
Sending church
Madison Baptist Church
2323 Portage Road
Madison, WI 53704
(608) 249-0941
Website: Madison Baptist

Our New Van

This past week we were able to buy our mode of transportaion.


A Kombi


It has already served us well. Getting used to the driving is the hard part. Please pray that the driver will learn fast how to drive here and that he will drive safely.

Daniel sharing/CD

One night Daniel had the privilege to give his testimony in front of the whole church.

We are planing on recording, Lord willing, a CD with the Duarte's in portuguese.

Here are the guys working on blending and pronunciation.

Jana helping Esther with the words.

Learning how to play Bolita (marbles) the brazilian way.

Our Eventful Day

Dear Praying friends and family,

Today has been an eventful day, to say the least! It began as typical Thursday morning with the 4 older kids going across the street to the church for morning prayer @ 5:00. Jessica, Rebekah and I usually meet with Lawanda and Jenifer to walk at 6:00am. Anthony has started taking a morning walk since we've been down here. He generally picks a different child each morning, this morning it was Jessica's turn. Well, the weather report said that it was supposed to rain all day. The morning definitely looked like it could downpour any moment. The ladies altered their route to keep on the main road to keep near all the store overhangs in case the rain cut loose. Anthony, too had decided to take a "short cut" due to the rain. It turns out that they were in such conversation that he missed his planned cut off ( a choice that he has greatly regretted).

Anyway, it seems that we have been scouted for some time, at least long enough for the wrong people to realize that the adults all left early in the morning for walks. While we were gone, Aaron was quasi-napping in a hammock we put up on the porch the day before and Daniel was reading his Bible on the porch. Two adolescents crooks were up on the porch before they knew anything about it. One had a gun and approached Daniel, motioning him to keep seated and quiet. The other one walked into the house (all my little boys were sleeping on the living room floor) and started grabbing things (there was a small table right by the front door where I generally do all my computer work. Daniel stood up and the first boy started to shoot. Daniel deflected the gun and it discharged (Daniel thought it was a blank). The shot evidently scared the second one and he ran off with what he had in his hands -- Aaron's laptop computer. They both took off running. Daniel ran after them. As they were running, the two kids switched the gun and the computer. Daniel caught up with the one with the computer and grabbed him and spun him around. Meanwhile the second one, now having the gun, tried to shoot Daniel . The gun clicked 3 times (no shots). Daniel punched the one with the computer in the face (Daniel's hands are still swollen and sore from the "lemon juice" burns, so it was quite painful..) When he went to punch him again, the kid went to block the punch and dropped the computer.
Meanwhile, "gunboy", frustrated at the gun not shooting, shot again. It discharged this time, hurting no one. The blocks here are very long, probably equal to 4-5 "US city blocks". The two assailants ran to the end of the block and ran around the corner to the right. Daniel picked up the computer and went back home.
The girls, with our alternate route, were passing the end of our street just a minute or two after all this happened. We saw Mr. Duarte come running out in the street, and other gathering and figured something might be amiss, so we turned to see what was going on. Mr. Duarte had Lawanda run up and call the police. They have a policeman in the congregation, so she called him, too.
Meanwhile, Anthony and Jessica came around the corner. The same corner that the crooks had gone around just minutes earlier. (I knew his usual walking route and was wishing we had cell phones so I could have called him). Our policeman friend came right over within minutes and took off in his car around the corner to see if he could find anything. 20 or so minutes later the police arrived. They listed to Daniel's story and told him that they recommend to anyone in that type of situation to not resist, but do nothing.He said "I admire your courage, but your life is not worth a computer!" He told us that we had to report the police downtown.

The Police

Up to this point, Daniel was still convinced the gun contained blanks. Upon closer observation, there is a hole in the ceiling of the porch.

The Bullet hole. You can see where it entered on the right.

When neighbors heard the gunshots, they came out to see what was going on. Many of our neighbors are concerned about us. Some felt they knew who the kids were because they have seen them walking by here quite a bit lately. A couple offered to help with the wall today, while we had to make our appointments. From what we are learning, gunshots were commonly heard on this street before the church moved here. Most of the neighbors appreciate the safer streets they feel the church has helped bring in.

After all the "excitement" died down, Anthony gathered all our family in to pray together. We thanked the Lord for sparing Daniel and for his protection over us all. Daniel broke down a little at the end of the prayer ( we were all quite teary-eyed) as it was finally dawning on him the severity of the situation and the Lord's protection of us all.

CAMP missions trip to Brazil

Having known the Duarte family for 3 yrs. Anthony decided to go down and help them in their ministry.
Mr. and Mrs. Duarte

We arrived in Cuiaba Brazil on Feb 15th

Our luggage in front of our house.

The inside of our house with our luggage

Here in Brazil they only pump water out every other day for about an hour. The water is held into tanks that are gravity fed into the house. The one we had was a small tank and the first thing we did after unpacking was got a larger one and installed it. Here you can see the little tank above and the larger one on the ground getting ready to be installed. This is at the back of our house.

The little kids playing with our neighbors

Thank you so much for your prayers!! Right now we are mainly trying to make our house a home and catch up on lost sleep. Tonight Dad will be speaking and I believe some of us kids are singing for the Saturday evening service.


Sending church
Madison Baptist Church
2323 Portage Road
Madison, WI 53704
(608) 249-0941
Website: Madison Baptist


Our posts concerning Antonio