Campos Sales Youth:

Campos Sales has about 30 youth at present.

Youth Sunday school room. 

Three sisters.

Three sisters also. 

Saturday night young people.

Basic guitar lessons.

Campos Sales youth at Institute graduation.

Carol, Maggie and Bruna.

YOUTH ACTIVITIES:

Volleyball in the rain.

Camp at our Island retreat.

REBECCA'S CHILDREN.

Rebecca has a wonderful work with the Children at the Campos Sales Church and in the public school near by. Her tireless efforts in taking the gospel to them has made her a key witness to teachers, children and leaders in our community. Pray for her as she tries to organize an even bigger group to reach into the public schools all over Manaus.

Celebrating our new drinking fountain. It was stolen shortly after!

What a smile!

One of Rebecca's many friends.

DVBS

DVBS helpers.

special friends.

Rebecca's three boy friends. 

Saturday goodbyes.

Public School.            

Ladies group.

Ladies Bible study at Church.

Teaching an Indian lady how to read and play music.

Campos Sales ladies group.

Public school principle.

Campos Sales ladies meeting.

ladies Bible study. 

CHURCH LOCATION AND SERVICES.

Campos Sales suburb is located about 30 kilometers north west of down town Manaus. It was invaded with squatters three years ago and went from about 4,000 residents to 25,000 over night, causing many social economic problems including an explosion of crime and disease. 

Common site in the beginning.

Squatters house.

Beginning of a squatters house. 

Church lot before any building.

Begining to build.

Empty lot. 

Wall is done.

Church lot today.

Sunday services today.

The pavilion where we meet. 

Church property about two years into the work.

The Campos Sales suburb about two years into the work.

Campos Sales about three years into the work.

Sunday night service.

Two years after beginning.

Front of the pavilion ready for worship service.

Sunday school.

The church in May of 2007 when we left for furlough.

John and then men of the church. 

Building our auditorium.

Building  has  finally  begun  on  our  auditorium. We   have  been  meeting  in  the  pavilion for the last   eight   years.   During   this   time   we  have suffered many  set backs due to the city hall and other problems. The church has been saving for the  last  eight  years and we are praying that we can  dry  the  building  in  before  the money runs out.

Headed for the church with some building materials.

We begin early in the day before the heat makes it almost unbearable. This picture was taken at 06.00 hours.

Preparing the footers before taking them to the church so that they will not get stolen.

Footers in place

Digging for the skirting.

More digging.

Building the rings for the skirting....3200 of them...one at a time.

Putting the skirting into place.

Filling the skirting foundation with concrete to ground level.

Skirting in place, concrete at ground level...time for the forms to go in.

Building the forms for columns and skirting.

Our building material is the white sand you see in the center of the picture, and small rocks next to the sand. One wheel barrow load of sand, two of rock and one hundred pounds of cement mixed together will be our foundation.

Our two cement mixers.

Front of building ready for the forms and concrete.

Foundation and skirting ready to pour.

Me...trying to keep up with the cement mixers.

Carrying the mixed concrete to fill the forms.

Church workers and cement work.

Front forms filled....we are done with the foundation!

We will move on to the columns this next week.