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[Sister Alvear]

I love being a missionary. Just this past week they called me from a church started around 38 years ago telling me of the first converts in that village passed away...I wept because she is no longer with us but rejoice at heaven´s gain. She was such a saint for many yers that call from the darkest pagan worship.

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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

I love being a missionary. Just this past week they called me from a church started around 38 years ago telling me of the first converts in that village passed away...I wept because she is no longer with us but rejoice at heaven´s gain. She was such a saint for many yers that call from the darkest pagan worship.

We hear and feel your heartbeat in every word you write and every picture you post...

[Sister Alvear]

Thank you...I have never lost the wonder of being a missionary.

[Sister Alvear]

This was a part of the skit they had last night

[Sister Alvear]

pride as a "chief sin", in that other twigs grew from its fertile and fatal root.
James 4:6 (NKJV) But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But

[Sister Alvear]

I just recieved a call from one of our groups that is traveling evangelizing many areas in the south. The pastor was telling me about they went through one village and the girls got all the village children togeter and begin to tell them about Jesus and then when the pastor came he asked them what was their greatest desire and one little boy spoke up and said, "I want to be a christian like you". The pastor said the boy stayed right by their side as they visited other people and as they were loading up to leave the little boy said, " Pastor, will you come back for me so I can be a christian..."
After 40 years on the field I still weep for those who have never heard in fact I have a cloth here now drying my eyes as I type...

The pastor was weeping, I am weeping...lost souls are waiting...they too want to be christians...but how shall they hear without a preacher?

Can you help the southern Brazil/Paraguay work? You may do so by sending an offering for that region..you may do so by praying a prayer that God would raise up workers...Thank you.

[Sister Alvear]

How deep is the darkness of the soul of the spiritist and how great is his need for the one who is the Light of the World. Their temples are filled with grimacing gods and burning candles. The people are kept in constant fear of evil spirits.
Though I have live in Brazil over half of my life, I have not become accustomed to the heathenism. The minor tones of temple bells that ring to awaken the gods still pain me. Seeing people worship gods of wood and stone, gods who cannot hear or help send a pain to my heart. Idol temples that fill the cities and dot the hillsides and valleys, and the roadways, all filled with stone and chalk images. For some desperate soul to kneel down and try to find an answer to life's problems.
It still brings tears to my eyes to watch them burn candles to help the dead find their way in the beyond. What light other than the light of Jesus can light our pathways? May our hears beat with joy, and our lips tremble with praise to Him that among all people, He has chosen us, and called us out for His service.
Yes, I know the dreary solitude of a pagan world, the heart rending trials, and the soul-harassing temptations. The feeling of being separated from friends, home, and country. Cut off from the consolations of Christian Fellowship, a stranger in a strange land, hearing an unknown tongue, surrounded by scenes of lust, blood, paganism, and spiritual darkness.
But, I also know the joy of seeing the witchdoctors converted, idol gods being thrown away forever, seeing a shack become a home in which the presence of Christ Himself dwells. Yes, I have watched this glorious company of blood-washed saints keeping time with music with uplifted hands in praise and worship to Him who brought them out of darkness into this marvelous light. I could not leave these dear people without violating the most solemn convictions of conscience. I would not exchange my humble toil among them for all the positions on the earth.
Leisure I do not anticipate nor desire until reaching the fair land where it is said of the redeemed, "They shall rest from their labors." Someone once said, "The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions, and the nearer we get to Him, the more intense missionaries we become."
An Oxford University professor once said to his students, "Beware of having earthly future." God would have us with our hearts and minds on His heavenly kingdom, and not on the perishing things in this transitory world. May we always remain untarnished in our devotion and in our love for the souls of men.

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