Brazil Short Term Team
I have an amazing friend, Haline, who is Brazilian and lived most of her teen years in southern Africa where her parents were missionaries, and who actually texted me two days ago, and I just realized I haven’t texted her back yet (sorry!). After the United States, Brazil is the second most missionary sending country in the world. Brazilians are also incredibly hospitable, generous, and gracious people. All of them. Which is now comforting me as I think about that unanswered text. I remember a conversation we had years ago where I expressed my doubts about the effectiveness of short term missions teams. Haline assured me that they are invaluable to the career missionaries. Short term teams add energy to the mission. They encourage missionaries and draw people to the work God is doing. Lucia, Rubens, Rose Angela, Fernanda, Paola, Luciano, Paola Tarciana, Idenir We recently had a short term team from Recife, Brazil help us out for a couple weeks. They were a delightful group o