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BUNCHES IN BRAZIL
Spring 1978
BUNCH NEWSLETTER
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March, 1978
Faithful Friends:
The Lord has been so good to us. It's hard to believe that we are
back home in Brazil. Just a few days before we left the States I
thought I would be needing surgery and that we would be forced to
spend another six months there. Only a miracle could have improved
the situation in such a short time to the point that the Doctor gave
the go-ahead to return. The many prayers were answered and He
continues to bless us abundantly. How true is His Word, which to
... "Be anxious in nothing; (help thou my unbelief!) but in every
thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests
be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ
Jesus." (Phil. 4:6-7) All Praise to Him!
We want to express our special thanks to all who participated in
the "sending service" at Sea-Tac on New Year's Day. We were really
blessed by that expression of love. We also appreciate what the
Issaquah Family has done to get word out on our needs. The Lord
has blessed us with a lovely home in what we trust will be a very
fruitful part of the city. We pray that it will work out to finance the
house in the States through God's people there. Thank you again for
your prayers and help.
We have been here over two months now and are still getting
settled. Life can be rather complicated at times and we have faced
some difficult tasks already. With God's guidance we know that all
will work together for good.
One of the highlights of our return was the time we spent with
the Christians in Uberlandia. It was so good to see the tremendous
growth that has taken place and to participate in that growth as we
went down to the creek at our property and witnessed six new
births. We all celebrated the Lord's Supper under the trees planted
by the water.
It may be hard to believe, but in the two months in Brazil I
have spent the equivalent of more than five 40-hour work weeks
traveling by bus and car! I pray that it has been spiritually rewarding
for those who have crossed my path. One young man who has done
some work at our house has shown interest in the Scriptures. I have
him doing a study in Mark and pray that his openness will blossom
into a decision to follow Christ.
Pray with us that many will respond to the simple New Testa
ment message as Sandy and I and Bruce and June Colson labor
together in Cuiaba, the Capital of Mato Grosso.
,
Jim
Child Chatter
Hello everybody. How are you doing? Are you fine? I moved
into a pretty house. It's blue. We have a lot of rooms. I'm starting to
read Portuguese. There's this book that I like reading in it. We have
two hammocks. It looks like the States here . . . and a little bit like
it. I live in Cuiaba. And my school is right down the road. It's really
close. I got a pretty teacher. I got some friends. One friend always
runs if I run and she walks if I walk. We always have to wait for each
other. When we walk I start running but she doesn't see me so she
doesn't run. But sometimes she sees me running. We have a tank that
we can swim in. And we have a little place to
put the hammocks and where the hammocks are
we can put water on the floor so we can slide.
We like to swim because of the hot weather.
Our water
tank
you well? Come and see us, good-bye ... I can see you tonight.
done."
Hi, we finally made it, thanks to our Friend Jesus and all of your
many prayers on our behalf. It's nice to be back in Brazil but we do
miss all of you and I want to thank you for your help while on fur
lough. We're now settling down in our new home in Cuiaba and it's
nice not to be living out of suitcases anymore. The Lord hja blessed
us with good health and our spirits are high as we look forward to
what the Lord has in store for us
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Parkland Christian Church, Mai7m^A^enf, 757 S. 138th Street, Tacoma,
WA 98444, Phone 531-0757
Issaquah Christian Church, Sponsoring Church, P.O. Box 400, Issaquah,
WA 98027, Phone 392-5848
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BUNCHES IN BRAZIL
Summer 1978
BUNCH NEWSLETTER
Summer, 1978
Dear Friends:
"For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is
Jesus Christ." I Corinthians 3:11
people to whom the Lord has called us... are people of faith. I have never yet
met an atheist in Brazil, though they must exist. I also have yet to discover a
person who doesn't have a spiritual life. All are constructing some kind of
spiritual house. Most of the materials they are using are drawn from the Word of
God. Such strong bricks as "love your neighbor as yourself" and "do not steal,
kill or commit adultry." However, the problem with most of this construction is
that it won't last. The building may even at times be beautiful, since some of
God's best materials went into it. But, it is inevitable that most of these
buildings will collapse. Why? Because care was not taken in selecting the right
foundation.
With many people here I have used the illustration of the race. The
contestants are registered and sAon they are running toward the finish. If
someone comes out of the stands or over the fence and begins to run alongside
of the others, and even completes the race, what will be his reward? Nothing!
... except perhaps being arrested. Those who will be recognized at the end are
those who had their name written down at the start. Jesus is "the Way and the
Truth and the Life." It is only by being "born again" in the power of His Spirit
that we have a right to "run the race" with others who also have their citizenship
in heaven.
,
Just three days out of the hospital
.I'had the privilege of baptizing Maria.
She is a radiant new Christian and
Rio, Goias, to help us "reach out" to the people here. The first four days we ''
preached and showed films m my area then we went to the side near the Colsons.
Several hundred attended the meetings and we each had about 90 people show
enough interest to leave their names and addresses.
Since the rallys, we have been busy following up with other meetings,
home visitation and Bible studies. We both began with meetings in Community
Centers but I have met with real opposition and have not been allowed to use
the center for several weeks. The Lord has provided the use of a home for
regular evangelistic meetings on Saturday nights and we trust that we will soon
see the first fruits of our labor.
I am calling and leading Bible Studies six nights a week and we have moved
"family night" to Thursday afternoon. It opens more possibilities for us as a
family and gives me another night to call. Monday night has been reserved for
.Sandy and we spend quality time together that our witness would be re-enforced
by the example of our Christian family.
Praise God, and thank you for being used of Him to maintain us on" the
field.
,.
Jim
bone!
using her to witness to her family and friends. The
Lord provided Ana to take Maria's place and we pray that we can help her find
Jesus in the same beautiful way that Maria found Him. Mistie and Corey grew to
love Maria dearly since she worked for us for
over two years and they, too, miss her. Mistie
has done well her first term back in her Bra
zilian school and she has Winter Vacation the
Child Chatter
Hello, everybody. I'm going to talk about stuff here. Maria, she already
went to Araguari. We had "family night" one night. We went riding our bikes
Bob and Gladys Christian, Promoriona/ Agents, 17641 S.E. 60th, Issaquah,
WA 98027, Phone 747-8964
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WA 98444, Phone 531-0757
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WA 98027, Phone 392-5848
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BUNCHES IN BRAZIL
Fall 1978
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BUNCH NEWSLETTER
Fall, 1978
Dear Friend,
'"Thou therefore, my child be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same
commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." II Tim. 2:1-2
Leadership Training is a key to church growth. However, in order to have any
kind of a training program you first need some dedicated, spirit-filled Christians. At
last writing we had one, and she moved back to her home town where she continues
to be on fire for the Lord. However, that ieft us with zero. We came here to raise up
the body of Christ and to entrust His Word, ".. . to faithful men, who shall be able
to teach others . .We concluded that prayer was the necessary catalyst which we
needed, in abundance, to bathe the work we were doing. We have invited different
supporting churches each month to meet the challenge by praying fervently for the
outreach in Cuiaba. In the just over three months since this began we have seen 34
buried with Christ and raised to newness of life. Praise the Lord for the POWER OF
PRAYER.
Now we are seeking to raise up a few faithful men, to equip them, and show
them their marching orders. God, through prayer, is giving us those men and as you
can see from the photos, they are al
ready leading out, preaching, testifying
and baptizing.
Felizberto, one of the first to accept
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others.
Our men are calling with me and each Sunday morning we have a Prayer and
Leadership Training meeting for them. In the afternoon we gather at the river for
baptisms and then meet together in homes for the Lord's Supper and sharing service.
We have Wednesday and Saturday night meetings which are evangelistic as well as
edifying. Sandy has started regular women's meetings and at her first gathering a
young couple (she, the daughter of one of our Christian women) found Jesus and
were baptized as a wonderful conclusion to that first encounter.
In the recent Evangelistic Rally, Raimundo took the lead as Evangelist and
Felizberto and others shared in prayer and personal testimonies. Your prayers again
were central. Satan does not like what's happening and we have seen how he works
to destroy our witness. Thursday the rally got started with a fair group of a couple
hundred. Friday we were rained out. Saturday about everything possible went
wrong, with the sound system completely failing several times. Sunday night when
we arrived to set up there was no electricity. We confronted Satan with prayer and
continued to set up by car lights . . . with two or three minutes to go the power
returned and we had a fantastic meeting. Fourteen adults gave their names and five
have been baptized as a result, with more to come. After the meeting we thanked
God for the victory and moments later the lights went out again. They had never
flickered during the film of Christ's death and victory over the grave and the power
ful preaching and testimonies. Your prayers have influence even here on the bottom
half of the world. The Lord IS raising up leaders for His church in the interior of
Brazil.
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Jim
a mighty way. Subtracting our furlough time, we've been in Brazil foc.four yeais. _
our church work and He's guiding my
hand in working with the children and
that we have summer-type weather about 11 months out of the year so light cloth
ing would be preferred.
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Child Chatter
I'm fine. I have a birthday and I five.
Do you got a good day? I play with
Cinderella. Do you know Cinderella?
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the sand. I went on the boat, too. Daddie went fishing because he went fish
ing in the boat with Uncle Bruce and
they caught fish. Uncle Bruce got stuck in the sand and daddie got him out. When on Family
Day us went fishing on back of the crib and mommie were back of it putting stuff on our fish
ing poles. I got a gun. I got a book, f got a sucker and balloons. Grandma sent my gun at the
Post Office. I like to get mails. I talk in Portuguese because other people does. Jesus is good to
me because He is so nice. Jesus died for my sins and He live in my heart. Bye-bye. have a good
time. Mistie get to talk like 1 did for you . . . here comes Mistie . . .
She sleeps out in the back where Cinderella sleeps but Cinder
ella really doesn't sleep cur. she likes to play with me and
Corey. Me and Corey like playing with her, too. Always in
the morning when we wake up she jumps on us because she's
what she does? She keeps crying. Now I'm going to talk about
something else. We started Sunday School every Sunday. And
we're going to start another Sunday School at another house
but the other house is going to keep going. Do you know why
And
now. Act II
all the people that got baptized, it's 35 . . . that's more than nine. Jesus is helping us here ... 1
know that you guys are helping us. toodo you know what you are helping us on? Giving us
money for us paying our house. My birthday is coming up, 10 of November. I'm going to be
eight. Bye-bye, God help you. Have a good time in the States and send me letters and I'll send
you letters, too.
Jim and Sandy Bunch, Missionaries, Caixa Postal 1092, 78.000 CuiabS, Mate
Grosso, Brazil, S.A.
Christina Semple, Forwarding Agent, 2676 39th S.W., Seattle, WA 98116,
Phone 935-2798
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WA 98027, Phone 747-8964
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BUNCHES IN BRAZIL
Winter 1978-79
BUNCH NEWSLETTER
Winter, 1978-79
Dear Friend:
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."
Luke 2:14
Greetings! God has blessed us with His Son. We must take Him to the dying
world. The Lord has continued to help that task here in Brazil.
A recent retreat was a blessing
for the 82 who participated. We went
by truck and car, eight kilometers to
a "current powered" ferry, on which
we crossed the Cuiaba River. We used
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new baby brother by singing the Sunday School songs to him but the baby wasn't
sure if it was soothing or not! We now have two women's meetings going in two dif
ferent housing projects which are edlfyingand evangelistic. The first group,of course,
is being led by Brazilian women and they are doing a good job. I hope to raise up
leaders in the second group to take over so I
can ease myself out of the picture as leader.
In the future I will then alternate between the
Child Chatter
Hi, I had a good birthday. It was fun. I went to the airport with daddie for a
date. I got a lot of birthday cards and I like them. Now I'm going to talk about my
school: I passed at my school because I got good grades ... so now I'm just here
playing. We took a trip to Uberlandia again and we went by bus and daddie got sick
there. We had Thanksgiving there and we had a lot of food to eat but there was a
lot of flies there, too. Now I'm going to talk about Christmas: We've got three
We
Jim and Sandy Bunch, Missionaries, Caixa Postal 1092, 78.000 Cuiabfi, Mato
Grosso, Brazil, S.A.
Christina Semple, Forwarding Agent, 2676 39th S.W-., Seattle, WA 98116,
Phone 935-2798
Bob and Gladys Christian, Promotional Agents, 17641 S.E. 60th, Issaquah,
WA 98027, Phone 747-8964
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