Youth Outreach...

A few Family young ppl in Rio get together for some evening outreach by the lake....






(Phone pics again! ;D)























































A couple reads a tract together...
...How sweet!

Another Birthday...

Some b-day pics...

I am now officially a quarter century old! :D

Oh, and...

Happy Family Birthday!!

Random happenings...

My lil' sister's Birthday!

14 and all grown up.

..the ppl and the

delicious cake

made by the

Angela's:

2 JM: Puppies!!!! ;D (born on NY's eve)

First beach since 3 months of being in Rio!!

(...Looking kinda chunky eh?)

Chris & I
(Check out
the hideous
bangles!)

:P

Happy Bday 2 Phill!
(Me and my Huge smile :D)

More girls to grace our presence

Dancing ...oh yeah!

...Yet another Birthday Party at a friend's house

(who just got back from DE hence the German candy)

My new addiction (the German candy)

Sweet, sour and salty-ish; couldn't stop eating it

...it only lasted one night tho. :(

NYs at the beach...

Happy 2009!

Other C-mas stuff...

Christmas humanitarian aid mid caroling... At a nearby "community" (it's not polite to say "slum" or "favela" anymore) delivering donated gifts and toys and basic food baskets to the 30 sum families who live there... (We will also start a sewing project there this year. Pls pray for that. we still need a room and a couple more sewing machines, ..and anointing for the teachers. *gulp! )

Yay!!!

Kid, what ARE you doing? hehe!

...Our very own Brazilian Santa!
From Rio to be exact ;)