It’s August! It’s time, for the long awaited Regional Pai Conference,  for the Guarani speaking Christians in the our region. Each year this conference is held in different communities as the indigenes churches volunteer to host the conference. We have attended twice taking two couples with us each time but this year everyone wants to go as the conference is closer. So a big truck has been rented. Each family will pay $3. for food, be responsible to take plates, spoons, cups and a blanket.

Each one will meet and enjoy other brothers and sister in Christ from other communities!
Each one will enjoy and soak in the Word of God.
Each one will be encouraged and encourage others.

Pastor Andres ( a Paraguayan Pastor from town) will share from the Word twice on Saturday along with Pai believers and missionaries. Everyone will be given opportunity to share in an open meeting.

Pray for those on this community who are capable readers and teachers to catch a vision for teaching their own people.
Pray for the people to think through each lesson, for God to give them spiritual understanding of scripture and for them to understand truth. Passive listening isn’t going to give them understanding of the Word of God.

Pray for the next trip to the village along the river. Who can go and when the next trip can take place.

Our Pai friend was at his home when his daughter said, Look a little pig.  Looking up from his work he saw an armadillo coming down the path to their home. He caught the armadillo & was preparing to cook it when his father-in-law arrived at his home and said, –What have you got there?

Our friend said, –This armadillo came to our house. I caught it so we can eat it.

His father-in-law said, –That is “mba’e mbora’u” You cant eat it! You have to burn it! It brings death! Someone will die if you don’t burn it & throw it away.

Our friend said, –I have heard the Word of God & in the beginning God created all of the animals & said they are good. Also when the Israelites were in the desert & hungry, God sent them doves right to their tents for them to eat. So God does sometimes send food right to us at our home. It is OK for us to eat the armadillo as God is in control and sent it to us to eat.

Epifanio correctly applied truth to his daily life from the Word of God.

     The young people are open to the Word of God. We want to teach the teens while their hearts are still tender. We have just a few teens being raised by Christian parents but most of the young people come from unstable homes. The believers invited young people from a near community for a weekend of games, singing and teaching from the Word of God.
     The young people defiantly had a great time and want to do it again soon.
     Pray for the teens to choose to follow the truth they are learning from the Bible. Pray for them to encourage each other to do good and walk in truth.