Dear Friends, Hard to believe a year’s flown by since our last update. I saw many of you when I was back on furlough this summer. Still, had plans to send more news of the work here. Lord willing you’ll receive some more updates in the coming days and weeks. It’s really been an incredible […]
Author Archive | Dennis Downing
Street Church Christmas
Last week we shared about our Christmas banquet with our partner ministry Church in the Street. This week (I know, its a little past due), we have our Derby Park Church Christmas banquet. We’ve been having record numbers of homeless men and women coming to our services in the park. Pre pandemic we averaged 60-80 […]
The Banquet Jesus Wanted
Thanks so much for your prayers and also your patience! I can’t believe I only posted five reports throughout 2022. All I can say is it was all I could do to keep up with everything the Lord has been doing this past year. I’ll be sharing more in the next few weeks but here’s […]
Children’s Day with Church in the Streets
Dear Friends, Thanks so much for your prayers and support! With local restrictions being removed after the pandemic and more people out and about we have been B.U.S.Y! October 12th is “Children’s Day” in Brazil and all the kids hope for some kind of gift or surprise. We were a week late but with our […]
Prayers for Edson 2022
Dear Friends, Just a brief message to ask prayers for Edson, the first young man to come to Christ through the Jesus in the Streets ministry. Edson has had a lot of ups and downs even since our last message asking prayers for him in 2017. Year before last he survived one attempt on his […]