As we lift our hands and pray

It’s been a while since I last posted news on our blog, there are so many good news that I not even know from where to begin.


Well, many of you already know that Projeto Toque in Piracicaba has moved to a larger house.
With the coming of more people to our family house we faced new challenges, like the need for more room and people to help Joyce, we prayed that God would send more workers, and he sent, Dinho that is now working and living in the family house, Matheus, Mari and Pedro also returned to Piracicaba and are developing several jobs with the people who live in the house,like chocolate truffles, and pastries are made for sale and are also working with a car quick wash. The house is very close to the river and they have already made a devotional outdoors by the river, God is really blessing us, we would have a missing arm in our work of restoration of our brothers and sisters if we didn’t have the family house in Piracicaba, thanks to the home we are able to help them continue the work God has already began in their lives.

Our team in Sao Paulo have learned so much and seen God working in amazing ways. We have known J. for almost two years, she is a 26 year old girl who is a drug addicted and also HIV positive ,we have taken her to the doctor many times, and managed to find a vacancy at a rehab house, she would give up to go there at the last minute ,or sometimes only sought for our help when she was very sick, she wasn’t on a HIV treatment so she would contract many diseases that only got worse, such as tuberculosis. The last time she sought our help her hands were full of wounds and fungi, she was in a very very bad situation, once again we took her to the doctor but it was not a case of being admitted at the hospital, she was living on the street we also couldn’t bring her home because we have a 2 year old kid, the rehab house wouldn’t also take her in with her bad health situation, there was nothing we could do, we felt sad and powerless, so we gave the situation up to God.

Two weeks ago she phoned us saying that she was treating TB in Campos do Jordao. Since then she has often called us, and we will on Sunday with a group from church Projeto 242 visit her, if she stays until the end of the treatment we can receive her in our home in Piracicaba.

Pray to God to strengthen her so she can complete the treatment

I could write a book of testimonies, another very nice thing that happened was the opportunity we are having to share the gospel with a transvestite, we have visited his house every Friday, he lives with the boyfriend who is always very friendly, R. wants to stop with the kind of life he is living, in fact he ended the relationship with the boyfriend and they are living together for only for now, he was very honest and believes that God created him to be a man, he also opened up about the abuse he suffered from the age of 9 to 14 years old and that contributed to his sexual option. We´ve been visiting him for months, and honestly in our little faith we thought it would be very difficult for him to break up with the boyfriend, we also had never had an opportunity to talk openly about homosexuality and the will of God regarding his sexuality, on the day we went to his house we were surprised by the way he has opened up.

We are happy that the Holy Spirit is working in his life.

Often we come across situations where our understanding and human limitation can not provide answers and solutions, these were some of the many situations we often face, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!

He will always work and act where and when we can not, that’s why it is so good to live in dependence and expectation of what God is going to do.

Our role is to simply go and sow, the growth belongs to God.

Lift our hands to the heavens and claim that God goes ahead of us in the battle, that He will bring growth.

That’s why your prayer is so important when we are on the battlefield. (Exodus 17. 8-13)


Prayer Requests:

Yesterday we received a lady who is a prostitute to learn how to make truffles so she can sell it, pray for her so she can get out of prostitution.

For R. the transvestite who we have been visiting.

J. who is at Campos do Jordao at the clinic getting her health recovered, for her rehabilitation and strength to complete the treatment.

Family house in Piracicaba and the missionaries Matheus, Mari and Pedro, Joyce, Dinho

Projeto Toque in Sao Paulo, Caetano, Fernanda, Adriano, Luciana and Artur, Melanie

Also, for Sarah from Minneapolis and Agata from Poland who are coming to work with us next month



Thank you to all who have prayed, contributed and volunteered with us! God Bless you!!


Fernanda and Projeto Toque family