Dear friends, No videos or long posts this time. Just a heartfelt request for prayers. For the first time for our ministry and for seven precious children, we’ll be taking a group of kids from the favela to a Christian camp this week. I was visiting with the mom’s today (all single, raising these kids […]
Author Archive | Dennis Downing
When Old Men Dream Dreams
I’ve never been quite sure what to do with dreams. But I had a very striking one in early 2023. The more I pondered and prayed about it I became persuaded it was something I needed to act on. It was a dream of training leaders in Portugal! I experienced my first International Leadership Institute […]
The Black Sheep
There are lost sheep who don’t want to be found. There are lost sheep who seem hell-bent on getting to, well that place. There are sheep who lost their way, believed the deceiver’s lies, and there was no one close enough they could trust to persuade them otherwise. Some fell in with the wrong crowd. […]
“Playing” Carnaval
Dear friends, please pray for believers in Brazil in the next seven days. Our national “celebration” is upon us and while many are able to get away to a retreat or stay home, the homeless and needy cannot. Keep them in your prayers. Following is a reflection I wrote, more for Brazilians, but might give […]
A Bible for the Homeless
Dear Friends, I don’t believe I’ve ever made an actual appeal for donations. But I’m coming to you today with a very special cause I ask you prayerfully consider. In November in a visit to the French Bible Society (Alliance Biblique Française) I learned of a very special project to produce and distribute 10,000 Bibles […]