Visitors, River Trips and Curriculum

We will be going on several river trips in the next few months. Hannah and our friend, Leslee Zell, are coming to visit in a few days. We will do a river trip with them. After they leave, there is another family arriving that will go on a medical trip. I (Joanne) will accompany them on the trip and we will minister to the kids in that village. Pray for us as we share the gospel with the kids. Then we are extra-excited about a visit at the end of July from our son-in-law, Aaron, and a team of six teens and three adults from his church in Farmington, Michigan. Pray that God will bless all the teams that are coming this summer and fall and that they will be excited about how God is moving here in the Amazon Basin.

John and Leslee Zell, Joanne, Hannah

I would also like prayer for the new Sunday School curriculum that we are starting to write. Many of you know that we already have about a year and a half of materials that we are using in the river villages. We would like another year and a half of materials, covering many of the stories that were not covered in the first book. Please pray for wisdom as we choose the stories and write the curriculum. We need good illustrations that are simple and can be colored for the Bible stories we are portraying (printing in color is far too expensive). We also need interesting introductory material for the lessons. I don’t like to start a lesson with questions; science experiments or object lessons are much better. I bought some great books on object lesson while in the States but if anyone has some good ideas, I am open to them.