June/July 2010

Lees in het Nederland hier

Ler em português aqui

Melanie

In the beginning of June I celebrated my birthday!!! With a few friends and colleagues we had a high-tea and it was so much fun!!!!

Jander

Jander went on outreach the end of June with all the bases of Youth With a Mission of the Northeast of Brazil, to the ‘festas juninas’  in Campina Grande. They had a very special time!

Efraim

Efraim also celebrated his birthday inJune. We celebrated it at his school with his classmates. He enjoyed it so much and got spoilt with many presents. When my parents get here we’'ll throw another party for him!

 

Project:

The project is going well. As I wrote in our last post we now are temporarily in charge of the ministry. Just a few more weeks to go till Peter and Selma get back. It’s been a great experience, we’ve learned a lot! LAst month we were suprised by the team with a dinner, they arranged for a driver, babysitters and we got to go on a date, just the 2 of us to celebrate our 7th weddinganniversary (which was may 3d)

Vida Nova

In the beginning of July I’ll start giving workshops for pregnant teenagers in the local healthposts. When this goes well I will be able to expand to other healthposts. Working together with the local health system is so important, I hope this will help for people to get to know the work of Vida Nova  in this area so that we can grow!

Worldcup

Brazil litteraly stops when they are playing in the Worldcup, shops, banks, businesses, postoffices and even schools close so that nobody has to miss a second of the game. At the project we have a big number of Dutch volunteers and staff at the moment so besides the yellow and green decorations, the whole diningroom is decorated with orange banners!!!! Also Efraim parrticipates in this joy!!!! Oh ad the brazilians we’re so not happy that Holland made them leave the worldcup…..let’s get to the finals!!! 

Visitors

We  are having lots of visitors these days. We have a dutch volunteer and she stayed in our house for a few days. Marina from our support group in holland and contactperson for our chucrh is her at this moment for 2 weeks, July 8th Mirjam and her husband and baby  will be here for a week. And July 10th my parents will be here for a month, so we have a few busy but fun weeks ahead of us!

Efraim’s School

Finally some pictures from Efraim’s schoolproject about diferent countries. His class was representing Mexico!!!!