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UNCHE S

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R ZIL

Spring 979


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BUNCH

NEWSLETTER

Spring, 1979

Dear

Fr iends

Be

persistent

in prayer,

and

keep alert as

you pray

giving thanks

to

God. At

the same time

pray

also for us, so that God will give us a

good opportunity

to

preach

his

message about the

secret o f Christ. Colossians

4:2-3

We

thank

you

for

remembering

the

Brazilian

ministry

in

your

prayers.

Sandy

and

I

and

the

children

have

cont inued

to

be blessed as we serve Christ in

Cuiaba.

Your

prayers continue to move the hand of God.

In

February

the Lord touched the hearts of sixdynamic^oung Christians in

Uberiandia and led them to visit the Christian family in

Cuiaba.

In reality, they

ministered to us all. The

cover

of our Spring

newsletter has

been dedicated to

that ministry and

the

impact

it

had on the

lives

of our people. The

first

of

May we

will take advantage of a holiday, as five of us go to

return

the visit.

I'm

sure it will

be a blessing as we rejoice in the

Lord with

the

Uberiandia

Christians.

We have seen eight additions to

the

Christian

body

here since

the

first of

the

year;

seven by

baptism.

Growth

is still not

spectacular

but

we believe

foundations

are

being laid.

The

Life

of

Christ films

have

been a key

to

our ability to

open

new

areas. Up until

now

we have

been able to

borrow

both

projector and

films

through

the kindness of Harry Scates in Uberiandia. One

of

Bruce Colson s

supporting

churches recently raised

funds for us to have our own projector here in

Cuiab

We think

this

is a

good time

to challenge

our

supporters with

the need

for

films as well. The films

cost

about $350

apiece

and

if each

of

our

churches

bought at

least

one

film we

would

have

the entire

_

series o f

the

Life

of

Christ and coul d col le ct some

of the better

Sermon

from Science

films

from Bruce projectingfilmwith

Moody.

These

have

proved

to

be

excellent

tools

for newly purchased machine

reaching ripe souls in Brazil. fioni aiopmycar.

There are now

three house

churches

in

Cuiaba and

an average

of

40

taking

communion

each

Sunday. The house church

that

was

meeting one week

in

Cohab

Veiha

and the

other

in

Novo

Terceiro has divided into

two churchle t ts ,

that will

meet jointly

once

a month. The men are excited about th e division since they are

taking

increased

responsibility. Sandy

and

I are visit ing

one one week

and

the other

the

next.

As

more

house churches

are

initiated

we will decrease

and they

will

increase.

AMEN

Felizberto and Gongalo recently opened a savings account for their two house

churches. They

did

this

completely

on their own and

have even given

the account

number

to

the other

Christians

in case

they

wish to make an

anonymous gift

at the

bank

Good

Friday

is about the biggest reiigious

holiday

in Brazil and we

decided to

take

advantage

with

a

retreat for

the Christians

from

the

three

areas. We were

able

to borrow

the

t ruck tha t

has

taken us to

the past two retreats

and we

reserved

a

small school a few miles from Cuiab^. Everyone was blessed and two were baptized

in to

Chris t

We

scheduled

a Sunrise Service for

Easter morning,

with the plan

to meet

at

4:00

a.m.

Only

a few

women

braved the early

hour. Interestingly, it

was the

women

who went

to the tomb at

dawn that

f irst Easter morning. We

went down to

the

river, where so many have been

bom

into Christ, and there we sang and prayed in

the

sunrise Severai

others

appeared

for

the

picnic

breakfast

which

took place

off

th e fro nt o f ou r car

The

men's

meetings,

Sunday Schools and afternoon worship

services

continue

to be a blessing

to

those

who

love

the appearing of our Lord.

..

JlfTl


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A Note from Sandy

The

Lord

continues to shower us

with

His

goodness

because you

continue

to

pray for us and His work here in

uiab

Our Christians are so thankful to those

who

responded

to

the

plea

for

used

clothing

prac tical ly everyone re

ceived a little something

that

they

can use,

but

there is still a great need

for more clothing. We now have

three Sunday Schools in three dif

ferent sections

of

the city with the

Brasilian women leading out in two

o f t h em O u r

to ta l

a t tendance is

around

60, with

these

children

shining

out

for

Jesus through

their

singing

and

participationBrasilians

(children

and adults) love to sing and they

put

everything

they have into it Mistie

assists th e te ac he r

a t

one o f the Sun-

Flander, one of

the youth

broiiglit a

new

dimension

meeting.

day Schools and

Corey

is my big helperafterwards

Corey

walks me home which

takes

around 40

minutes in

the

hot sun but

the time

passes quickly as we explore

the beauty

of

God s creation along the way. Mistie and Corey are enjoying their

new school

and

making

many new friends. Mistie is in the Second Grade and Corey

in Kindergarten. They

study

in the

afternoon

which leaves time in the morning to

get

homework done.

Corey s Portuguese

has greatly

improved

since

starting

school

and

his

school

work is gradually

getting

bet te r Mist ie s ta r ted o u t

wel l

an d

c o n

tinues to

get good

marks on all

her

tests.

Many

times we are unable

to pick

them up so they walk home

which

takes around 45

minutesusually

by

the

time

they

reach

the

house

Mistie

is carrying everything and Corey is

dragging a bit March 16,

Jim and

I

celebrated

our eleventh year

of mar

riage by going fishing out in the

swamp-land of Mato Grosso.

It

was very

exciting

to

see this,

practically, un

touched land with its many swamp

creatures and birds. I m

grateful

to my Lord for giving

me

such a

dedicated

Chris

t ian husband who is concerned about his family and the Lord s work.

f rom Uberlandia,

to

our women s

We enjoyed showing

off the beauty

of

our

countryside to

the

visiting youth.

hi ld h a t te r

Hi. Are you fine? I feel a l it tle bit

sick

because my nose is

runny.

I

study

very

much

and

my head hurt when I was at school. One time there was a grasshopper at

my

school

and all the girls were scared. There s a new

little

girl

at school

and she

was scared

that the grasshopper

would get on her. We had Easter time. Pascoa

means

Easter and at Sunday School we learned about Jesus getting alive again. I


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love

Jesus

and

I know what he says. Have a

good

day and here comes Mistie to talk Hi,

I m

doing very well at school

and

I get 10 on my tests.

My teacher is

good,

too, but she

smokes

and

that s

naughty,

but I tell her not

to.

We have 10 in our

class and I have a lot of

friends, but there

are only

four

girls. Everything is going on very good here

and

remember that

I m

still eight.

It s very

hot

here

but

it did get cold for three days. On Good

Friday we went with all the Christians on a re

treat.

It was fun; but at the end

wasn t

so fun for

me because I fell off the truckI

went

to

jump

but

my

feet stayed

and

my

hands

and head

went

first

and

I started to cry

and

when we

went

back

home

me and my friend were standing up and all the

boys fell on us and we fell down,

too,

and started

crying. We swam at the river, too,

and

two

people

got

baptized.

It s

good to love Jesus. Bye-bye,

everybody.

Mistie

Don t look

now,

but I think something s breathing

d ow n o ur necks.

Jim

and

Sandy Bunch,

Missionaries, Caixa

Postal 1092,

78.000 CuiabS, Mate

Grosso,

Brazil,

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Phone 747-8964

Parkland

Christian

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Mailing

Agent,

757 S. 138th Street,

Tacoma,

WA 98444,

Phone

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Issaquah,

WA 98027,

Phone 392-5848

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Tacoma, Washington 98444

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Summe r 1979


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BUNCH NEWSLETTER

Summer,

1979

Dea r Fr i end :

Go into

the highways

and

hedges and compel them

to

come in

Luke 14 : 2 3

Recently we ce lebra ted

the

first year

anniversary

o f the Christian

family

here

in

Cuiaba.

On

the

25th

of

June, 1978,

five

Cuiabanos

p ut on

Christ

and

celebrated

the Lord s Supper . Since

that

day the number

of

baptized

believers has grown to

84. Many

have continued firm in

their commitment

to

Christ and

have grown

tall

with roots p lanted deep in the

good

soil

of

the

Word of God.

We

praise

God

for

t h e se v i c to r iou s

lives.

Unfortunately there

are a lways

t ho se who

are

quick

to receive

the Good

News but

a re l ike

seeds

on rocky soil;

they spring up fast but their

ro ots d o not

go down and soon they have

dried

up.

We have seen several o f our

new

babes who have never developed a

thirst

for

the milk o f the Word and amid all our

prayers

and e ff or ts have shriviled and died.

Yes,

Satan is alive

and

well

and

working overtime in Brazil. From the beginning

we teach

our

people

the

Promise

of

James

4 :7 , t ha t

if

t hey submit

themselves

to

God and resist the Devil

he

will

run

away. Obedience is the key and t ho se who are

growing

spir i tually are those who have discovered that there is no other

way

but

to t rust and obey.

We

recently

completed

campaigns

in

two

new bai rros of

the

city. We used our

own people to sing and give testimonies in

the

meetings and have a lready seen

five

baptized

from each bai rro. One of our leaders, Manuel, lives in Cohab Nova and

is

excited

to see five new

Christians

that he

can shepherd.

He

had been walking

to

the meetings in Cohab

Velha

and

Novo

Terceiro and is now happy to be

leading

a

group

in his own

neighborhood.

:

Fel izber to

h a s re tu rn ed t o

work

on

th e

Radio

Pa t ro l

o f

th e

Police

Force . This

has

cu t into the

t ime

he

was spending

in

calling

and he has had

to

work some Sundays.

They

work

24

hours

straight and

are off

48.

However,

he has been a

real

testimony to those

that knew his alcoholic past and we Qi*

look

to

see f ru it f rom

his

testimony

at m

Congalo

has grown tremendously

and has

been

a rea l asset to our group.

However,

the

Lord

saw

a

need

of

an

_ ,

add i t i ona l

l eade r on

Bruce s

s ide o f

town and p rovided

a

lo t where

he

built

himself a wooden house. He is now Felizberto and I work with Pedro and Christina

leadingmeetings in CarambeII, the the tasty juice from

sugar

cane

other recent

campa ign s it e and shepherding the

five

, new

horns from

that bairro. I

miss

him here but

praise the Lord

that he

is being used to strengthen

part of our

Christian

family

across

town.

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Antonio, Emilianoand Felizberto are sharing

g t the leadership of the Cohab Velha-Terceiro group.

^

lost

some

families

because

of

moves and

with

the

opening of the new bai rr o have

returned

to

meeting al l the Christians in these

two

bairros

together, alternating from one bairro to the o ther,

from week to week. Naturally, everyone is

happy

to

I be back together and busting at the seams but we

know that if the family is to

really

grow they wilt

soon have to divide and multiply.

Thanks

for

your

faithfulness in

prayer

and

support of

this

ministry Jim

I

caught

my

first

P in t ada

( large

s t ri p ed ca tf ish )

on

a

re

cent

tr ip to the

Pantanal

(great swampy region nearCuiaba) .


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A Note from Sandy

PTL What would we

do

without

YOU

and

your many

prayers that are lifting

us up and giving us strength to move ahead with Jesus

here

in Cuiaba ?

Our little

family is staying pretty

healthy

and

we

were

only blessed with

one

case of pin-worms but no

lice

this

first

semester

of

school; plus only one spell

of

sickness that pulled

the

kids out for a couple of days . Colds and flus generally hit

the

whole city when we enter

into

our winter months with cooler weather (fria-

gems)particularly in the poor

sections of

town

(bairros) where

the

wind whistles

through

the shacks

leaving

the people shivering

without

a blanket

to

keep them

w rm

It is

amazing

how our

situation

changes f rom Newslet te r

to

Newsletter: I

am

now

down

to one Sunday

School because two families

that were holding Sunday

Schools in their homes moved away. There is

hope

though because I do

plan

on

opening up

a new

one

in

the

new bair ro that has

sprung up and shown

f ru i t s ince

our last film campaign. Lenira, a vivacious Christian young woman , was one that

had to

leave us

because her husband

got work in a

small

town

about 150 miles

by

dirt roada

road

that is practically impassable during the rainy season. Lenira is in

high hopes that we ll be

able to

hold a film

campaign there

as soon as

she gets

settledshe is excited

about

helping start a

house-church

in her new location,

plus

beginning

a Sunday

School

and

Women s

Bible Study.

She

is a very

talented person

and

has taken

Bible

courses

in the

past

plus has an aptitude

for

music. We

are great

ly missing

her here

but know that the

Lord

will use her in a

mighty way

in Caceres.

We have

now gone to

one Bible Study

for

the

women

in the daytime

because

of

Lenira and

others

absence either

by

moving or going to

work

outside of the home.

HH

though, a study opened up

^ for the working gal, in the evening,

^W

A

which s strickly run by Brasilians.

A

Satan has

taken

his toll in our

midst

W r caused some confusion off and on

but for the most part Jesus still reigns as

* fy

Lord n

the

hearts

of

most

of

our Chris-

tians

which

is seen when

they

want to

1 hold special cultos or meetings to

celebrate birthdays, make

special

visits

to

the

hospital to uplift

the

sick or

by

reaching a hand

to

someone that has

* fallen

and needs

encouragement. May

Manuel enjoyed a surprise culto (prayer and

the

Lord continue to spark

and

kindle

sliare meeting) on his birthday.

t hi s s ame

desire in

all

of us.

h i ld h t te r

Hi, people everywhere

I m

going to

talk about people

in m y school and

about

a lot

of

things. These

are

the

kids

of my

sch ool. H ere

are

some of the

names

of

them: Adriano, Glaucia, Monica and ~ 1

Marcos Mark). We had a lot of tests and bB 1

we d

o

home early.

It

was fun

but

it jmpHB

wasn t

so fun walking

home.

But

Corey

V w ^ Tf

always gets tired and he lets me carry

HH

Hg

f 1

everything of his. One day when wewere dm i J M \

walking home we stopped at a park and B

we played a lot there and then we went V . B V

home a different way. Corey was scared ^ii-i

because he thought that it was the

wrong

.took my camera to school and shot my

way. I got some good gradesand daddy is

f end.s.

going

to give

me some money. Daddy had

a

birthday.

We

went

to

Pantanal

and

we

saw alligators

and

big birds.

Bruce

and his family

went, too.

We

had

fun and we ate


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there. We went fishing and that was the most fun of ail. We caught a lot of fish

but

they

were

too

little; we couldn't eat

them

so

daddy

threw them back so

they

would

grow up. By

the river there

was a place where we did a picnic but

there

weren 't any

alligators there. We stopped a long time on a bridge

to

see the alligators and birds

and

the

br idge had a lot

of

holes in it. And so I

went running

and I

didn't see the

holes and so I fell in onejust one leg fell in and I thought that an alligator was

going to

eat

it and so I pulled it out and went running, screaming and crying

to

the

car . Bye-bye ,

I'm

having

fun

on

winter vacation

but

it's

about

done. JESUS HELP

YOU

It's

Corey's

turn

to talk

now.

I help

daddy open the

gate and I

do

what

my daddy

tells

me

to doI

even water

the grass.

|mL I m sick because when

I go tosleep I cough You

know something,

when

I were

hugging mommy

Yn t i th en I hugged daddy Daddy always

buys bones

|k * for Cinderella

e

went to Uberlandia and

arkie

let me ride his new green bike. On the big plat-

ij form that my daddy and Bruce madewe goton

.. it and

then

we singed Jesus Loves the

Little

Children.

Ail

the

people

liked us singing

and

one daddy

gave

me

a

papaya. You know some

,

thing, when

I grow

up I'm going

to

be

a

preacher

because

I like Jesus.

Bye-Bye.

Boy This homework stuff

can

drive

a flve-year-old and his daddy up

the

wall

Jim and Sandy

Bunch,

Missionaries, Caixa

P^tal

1092,

J8.000

Cuiab4,.Mato

Grosso, Brazil,

S.A.

j

Christina

Semple,

Forwarding

Agent,

2676 -

39th

S.W., Seattle, WA 98116,

P h o n e

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Bob and Gladys Christian, iVomofiono/Agents, 17641 S.E.

60th,

Issaquah,

WA 98027 , Phone 747-8964

Parkland Christian Church, Mailing Agent, 757 S. 138th Street, Tacoma,

WA

98444,

Phone 531-0757

Issaquah Christian Church, Sponsoring Church, P.O. Box

400,

Issaquah,

WA

98027,

Phone 392-5848

PARKLAND CHRISTIAN

CHURCH

757 S. 138th Stree t

Tacoma, Washington 98444

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